Red Dead Redemption 2 completion rate among different platforms!BornSirius t1_jacbhde wrote
Reply to comment by Mountain-Humor1699 in Red Dead Redemption 2 completion rate among different platforms! by -NiMa-
That isn't how that works. Those statistics are per unit sold, not per started playthrough. If your account completed a step once, your copy counts towards "completed".
Mountain-Humor1699 t1_jacbwj1 wrote
It doesn't state that anywhere.
Natural-Seesaw-9450 t1_jacev8v wrote
The OP made a comment said he used achievement data, you obviously can't get a achievement twice
BornSirius t1_jacl5oi wrote
It states it uses achievement data and that is how achievement data works.
Mountain-Humor1699 t1_jaclgti wrote
nope sorry, it doesn't. Only story completion percentage.
BornSirius t1_jacmo1m wrote
That statement was in a seperate comment so I don't fault you for ignoring it, but "story completion percentage" can only be "achievement data" anyways due to factors stated here:
Mountain-Humor1699 t1_jacphsa wrote
Ah so it is. The top post wasn't the OP so gave zero context
OkCrantropical t1_jacee43 wrote
That makes absolutely no sense. These statistics are about chapters, which has nothing to do with per units sold. You can’t gauge which chapters people get through based on how many units you sell. There’s zero correlation.
BornSirius t1_jackn4w wrote
Let me walk you through the steps that are the default in the industry:
1.) A steam account (or PS or xbox account) purchases a copy of a game.
2.) If that account at any time fulfills the condition for an achievement (like finishing chapter 1), that account sets a flag that it has reached that milestone.
3.) you divide the amount of flags by the number of copies sold.
That is it. That is how you correlate copies sold to the chapters that are finished. While it does not you an idea how many people finished the chapters, you do know how many copies have reached a certain progress.
You could write a custom reporting tool that tells rockstar when a new campaign starts and how it is going, but there simply isn't a reason to assume rockstar did this, especially since that would require you to be always online.
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