A lot games have a “Welcome” or “You played” badge and I would like to know why this is done.
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It is a form of advertisement. Lets say a player gets a badge and then someone looks at their profile and sees the badge and clicks it. Then they look at the game where the player got the badge from and thinks, that game looks cool so I will play it.
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It’s also a way to track Unique User Count since Visits counts every time someone plays your game, however it’s not very accurate.
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Do you have a reason as for why it’s not accurate if you give a badge to each player and you can only give a badge once?
They can delete the badge and get it again unless you prevent that with DataStore.
However from what I have observed, sometimes the “Won Ever” stat goes up by more than 1 when you Award a Badge.
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Just want to note out that this post belongs in #development-support:design-support. Anything related to the how of a game should be posted here, since your game is not explicitly asking anything related to code and rather on a design choice.
ok.
I’ve changed the category.
thanks for telling me.
I never actually viewed it as advertisement until I just saw your post. I did it just so I could know if someone had played my game before or not. :^)
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Another reason may be that the developer(s) want to see how many players have ever played their game, then compare that statistic to place visits.
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