In the online gaming community, people often say a game is âdeadâ to mean either âHas reduced activity from a previous peakâ or, if sufficiently principled about it, âHas had declining activity for a significant period of time, with no expected boost in the near futureâ.
So, if you mentally replace âdeadâ with âmore inactive than it used to beâ I think this confusion will resolve. The standard I expect Noah is using internally is âAt least as much activity as I perceived the EA Forum to have in its most active period since I joined itâ. (But I am not Noah, and am guessing entirely from previous usage Iâve seen, not from knowledge of them specifically)
I also donât like this word being used in this way. âDeadâ implies itâs no longer worth engaging with, and for online games there is a very real risk of hyperstitionâpeople donât want to invest in a dead game. âDyingâ would be a better term, but even then that exaggerates itâit is possible to preserve a healthy game or a forum with a lower, but stable, level of activity for a long time. âDecliningâ would be the best term imo, to honestly describe what is happening, if that is indeed whatâs happening.
In the online gaming community, people often say a game is âdeadâ to mean either âHas reduced activity from a previous peakâ or, if sufficiently principled about it, âHas had declining activity for a significant period of time, with no expected boost in the near futureâ.
So, if you mentally replace âdeadâ with âmore inactive than it used to beâ I think this confusion will resolve. The standard I expect Noah is using internally is âAt least as much activity as I perceived the EA Forum to have in its most active period since I joined itâ. (But I am not Noah, and am guessing entirely from previous usage Iâve seen, not from knowledge of them specifically)
I also donât like this word being used in this way. âDeadâ implies itâs no longer worth engaging with, and for online games there is a very real risk of hyperstitionâpeople donât want to invest in a dead game. âDyingâ would be a better term, but even then that exaggerates itâit is possible to preserve a healthy game or a forum with a lower, but stable, level of activity for a long time. âDecliningâ would be the best term imo, to honestly describe what is happening, if that is indeed whatâs happening.