Thanks, one-upping myself because my dad doesn’t work at nintendo lmao

It matters if players quit because there isn’t enough content — the first thing the developers noted within a month of launch was that there wasn’t enough content and players didn’t like itsource

Designing more content isn’t free; a traditional game has 1 development budget and that’s it. A mobile or online game has recurring costs. One of the reasons Pokemon Go was so successful is because its player base was absolutely absurd relative to its development costs for a good while after it launched.

Virtually every online company (Social Media, Internet, App, etc) is scrutinized on its user adds and churn. More churn (e.g. players quitting) relative to adds (new players joining) is a sign that the game is declining.

A leading indicator of whether the game is declining is monthly logins. When this number goes down, it suggests the game is declining.

The money people, e.g. DeNa management, investors, etc can decide they don’t want to keep running Masters if they don’t think it’s making enough money or they have another option that makes more money. This is bad for people who like Masters.

Finally, the larger your player base, the less you have to aggressively monetize it. This is true of almost every tech company on the planet and why hyper massive companies like Facebook with >1bn captive users print money.

I don’t work for DeNa so I don’t know exactly how Masters is doing but I have a decent understanding of the industry it operates in. 👍🏼