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Ask HN: Should one avoid leaderboards in a mobile game that is not popular yet?
Leaderboards would reveal the game's lack of popularity to players in an obvious way — and hence might discourage them from playing the game.
What do you think?
- Raed667 6y agoOr mix fake data with user-data? Some "multiplayer" games (the .io kind) even fake player agents.
- dyingkneepad 6y agoThis. I play a mobile game that I'm 90% sure has its own 'bot' accounts to make matchmaking easier and more varied. I'm pretty sure I'd always match against the same players if they didn't do that.
- muzani 6y agoI actually enjoy being ranked #5 in a game rather than #18291. Honestly, even in the low thousands, I don't normally check my rank. I have very recently played a game with about 15 active players. I ranked quite low, but it was a lot of fun. There's nothing necessarily wrong with an unpopular game and it's sometimes nice to be "significant" in a small community. MUDs are still around and many have at most a dozen players on at any one time.