Howdy hunters,
Time for our weekly status update. This week we’re presenting some results from the player survey, introducing a new weapon and a better version of Skippy (all as promised).
New stuff is here
We’ve just released a new rifle, the highly esteemed and requested by many a hunter .303 Bolt-Action rifle. It’s got that cool and robust looks and with its range of permitted animals it has all the chances to become your new favourite rifle. Check it out in the store.
Another nice thing packed in today’s patch is the improved kangaroo model. Sandra has delved deep into your feedback and did some subtle magic.
Alongside the “normal” kangaroo, there is a now a rare variation skipping over Bushrangers Run – go and find yourself one and don’t forget to take a nice trophy shot, the first rare kangaroo is highly to become the rare of the week.
Survey results
We closed our player survey on Monday. This year we’ve collected a record amount of replies – almost 9000, thank you everyone, the feedback and information you shared are extremely valuable! We spent the last two days digging into the data, some numbers were expected and some surprising.
Today we’d like to share some results with you. Although we can’t make all data public, we can assure you that every single response will be evaluated and all serious answers will be taken into consideration when we decide on our future roadmap of content and features.
Now, let’s dig into some data.
- The majority of all people (approximately 75%) who completed the survey play the game a couple of times per week or more often.
- You mostly play to enjoy the game experience (speaking about which, make sure to check this awesome video by our player HiFisch – theHunter game experience at its best). The second most popular answer was improving theHunter score and skills and the third is to have fun with friends.
- 95.78% of our players would recommend theHunter to a friend – thank you, this is an amazing number every game out there would be happy to get. As we would like to make it 100%, we’ve been checking a random selection of players who said they would not recommended the game, and found that they are some of the most hardcore and frequent players of the game, so despite the disappointing news that they would not recommend theHunter, we take comfort from the fact they clearly can’t get enough themselves.
- More pleasant numbers – 93.13% players who have made a purchase in the game would consider buying something again and about 89% think that the value for the money was either good or all right.
- Almost 89% of all respondents are satisfied, very satisfied or extremely satisfied with our communication; we’ll do our best to make this number even higher by implementing some of the ideas you suggested in the survey.
- 76.78% of players experience bugs in-game occasionally, seldom or never, whereas about 23.22% often or almost every session.
- Our efficiency at dealing with bugs was evaluated with 6.81 as the weighted average, on a scale from 1 to 10.
- The share of hunters vs. non-hunters in real life stays consistent with about 55% belonging to the first group.
- Players who are hunters in real life have evaluated the level of realism of theHunter as high as 6.84 on average on a scale from 1 to 10:
- And finally, here is the word cloud with the most popular words used in open responses to the question what three best things in theHunter are (the bigger the font of the word or phrase is, the more often it has been mentioned):
We’ve randomly chosen five players who have filled in the survey and added them 1000 em$ each: chexmexpandas3x, Geroldine, jakuba34, Grizmund and HobinRood – spend them well!
That’s it from us for today, see you next week and happy hunting!
PS The Easter Bunny has arrived at the Evergreen Hunting Reserves, and it is really excited. Check back on Monday for more news from it 😉
