Status Update | theHunter

Hello Hunters!

This week we’re introducing our new team member and presenting some results of the latest player survey.

Meet Dante

Hi everyone,

My name is Dan “Dante” Thronström and I joined the amazing theHunter team a week ago as a Senior Producer, which is a very fancy title for a Project Manager. My job is to support and work with the development team to make sure we have clear production plans and goals, so that we can keep making the best hunting game out there even better.

So a little background information is in order I believe. First of all, I have been playing theHunter since Beta (I actually started to play before Peter) and I have always been eager to work on the game myself. In fact, when I was studying game design at university I designed a hunting game that was very close to how theHunter looks and plays today.

I have been working in the gaming industry for about 8 years. Some of my employers in the past have been Lockpick Entertainment (Dreamlords), GRIN (GRAW, Bionic Commando) and Crytek UK (Crysis 1 & 2). During the last 3 years I have been working at Avalanche Studios, and when I got the chance to join theHunter team I just could not resist.

In my spare time I try to have as much fun as possible (which is how I like to work as well). I am a very active competitive pinball player (yeah, I have one in my living room) and I enjoy playing loads of other games (including theHunter of course). I also like to fiddle around with some of my many unfinished hobby game dev projects.

I hope that I get to talk to you on the forums and to see you in the game!

Player survey – Results

We’ve had a record of almost 3,000 people filling in our player survey, thank you for your invaluable input everyone! Although we can’t publish all the results, we’d like to share with you some numbers that we’ve found interesting. About the unpublished results, you can be absolutely sure, that every single answer will be carefully evaluated and taken into consideration when planning the future of theHunter.

So, according to 3,000 players who have completed the survey:

Most of you play theHunter to enjoy the game experience. The second most popular answer was working on hunter score and skills, closely followed by having fun with friends.

As for the issue of bugs in theHunter: 37.45% of players experience them occasionally or not more often than in any other game, 30% – seldom, 16.65% – quite often, 8.66% – almost every session and 7.11% – never.

You’ve evaluated our efficiency at dealing with bugs with 6.92 as the average score, on a scale from 1 to 10:

97.52% of our players would recommend theHunter to a friend, this figure has made us very happy …

… as well as another one: 95.32% players who have made a purchase in the game would consider buying something again:

You are mostly satisfied with our communication, the average score being 3.68 on the scale from 1 to 5:

Almost 80% of our players don’t play any other hunting games:

Curiously, the hunter/non-hunter in real life ratio of our players is very close to 50/50:

Our players who are hunters in real life have evaluated the level of realism of theHunter as high as 6.64 on average on a scale from 1 to 10:

And finally, here is the word cloud with the most important words used by respondents when answering what are three best things in theHunter (the bigger the font of the word or phrase is, the more often it has been mentioned):

As promised, we’ve randomly chosen three players who have filled in the survey and added them 1000 em$ each: the lucky winners are pedroserra, Dron26 and Papajetz, congratulations!

That’s all for today, happy hunting!

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