{"id":21072,"date":"2018-05-18T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/318383"},"modified":"2018-05-18T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T17:59:00","slug":"xbox-stat-tracker-explores-how-much-time-players-invest-in-campaign-modes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/18\/xbox-stat-tracker-explores-how-much-time-players-invest-in-campaign-modes\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox stat tracker explores how much time players invest in campaign modes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In wake of the news that Call of Duty<\/em> developer\u00a0Treyarch<\/em> isn’t planning on including a campaign mode<\/a> in Black Ops 4<\/em>, True Achievements took a look<\/a> at how many of its users typically play campaigns anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The unofficial achievement tracker pulled from its own data reserves to analyze what percentage of overall campaign-related trophies Xbox players typically earned during their time with a number of single player and multiplayer games.<\/p>\n

While the data does paint an interesting picture of how far people tend to progress in campaign modes, the numbers themselves should be taken with a grain of salt. The Xbox-centric report doesn\u2019t list how many players it\u2019s pulling its data from, and the numbers themselves are potentially skewed by privacy settings on Xbox\u2019s end or the opt-in trophy tracking data gathered by True Achievements’ platform.<\/p>\n

Additionally, it seems that the \u2018Story Participation Average\u2019 metric that True Achievements uses here could likely include all campaign-related trophies, including higher difficulty or side-quest bound trophies that may not be required for a full playthrough of any given game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With that all in mind, the data gathered by True Achievements shows that, looking at games in the Call of Duty<\/em> series since Call of Duty 2<\/em>, Call of Duty 3<\/em> had the highest Story Participation Average\u00a0with an average of 36 percent of storyline achievements unlocked by players. Black Ops 3<\/em> had the lowest percentage for the series at 4 percent while the most recent release, Call of Duty:<\/em> WWII<\/em>, had 29 percent.<\/p>\n

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True Achievements does note that Black Ops 3<\/em> handles achievements differently than most games in the series, however, something that likely contributed to its low story participation average, but even so only 9 percent of tracked players earned the achievement for beating the game on any difficulty setting.<\/p>\n

The report also dives into how that story participation metric plays out in other series, many of which are primarily single-player titles. Those games can be found in the graph below, with the Mass Effect<\/em> series boasting the highest story participation average at 50 percent and the side-quest riddled Fallout<\/em> series claiming the lowest slot with only 16 percent.<\/p>\n

The numbers are at their most interesting when True Achievements breaks down a series into individual games, however. So while the Batman Arkham<\/em> series only hits 33 percent story participation for the series as a whole, the very first game (Batman: Arkham Asylum<\/em>) saw 58.14 story participation and the most recent game (Batman: Arkham Knight<\/em>) only\u00a028.77 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In wake of the news that Call of Duty developer\u00a0Treyarch isn’t planning on including a campaign mode in Black Ops 4, True Achievements took a look at how many of its users typically play campaigns anyway.\u00a0 The unofficial achievement tracker pulled from its own data reserves to analyze what percentage of overall campaign-related trophies Xbox […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}