GDC Vault is part of the Informa Tech Division of Informa PLC
This is operated by a business or businesses owned by Informa PLC and all copyright resides with them. Informa PLC's registered office is 5 Howick Place, London SW1P 1WG. Registered in England and Wales. Number 8860726.
Lifetime Value in the Time of Covid
Predicting the lifetime value of a new player in your game is already a daunting concept. But what if your game only releases new content every 3 months? And to start you have only 3 months of data? And then just as you begin to have a good grasp of the world the global pandemic happens? In this talk we will discuss how a lifetime value model was vastly improved through 4 different versions over a year of Magic: The Gathering Arena. This will cover how traditional models from other industries failed, how we arrived at our solution and how we adapted to the largest change in player behavior we've ever seen.
Did you know free users get access to 30% of content from the last 2 years?