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I'll start with a few:

  • Cyberpunk 2077 (PS5). Only 53.8% of players earned the "Lovers" trophy, awarded for clearing the prologue at the No-Tell Motel, and only 77.3% of players earned the "Fool" trophy for clearing the preceding lifepath part of the prologue. Which means that ~20% of the people that played the game never made it out of the character creator, and another ~20% of the people that played the game went out into the open world, faffed around for a while, and then decided they were sufficiently entertained & then went back to playing FIFA.
  • Bonds of the Sky (PS4/Vita). You might have heard of Cyberpunk, but I doubt you've heard of this game, which is a low-budget Dragon Quest clone. It's not one of those "pay us 3 dollars/euros/pounds games and we'll give you an easy platinum" shovelware games that the PS4 had in abundance at one point in time, and yet, the platinum trophy has an insane 59% acquisition rate. (By contrast, Horizon Zero Dawn, a much more popular game with a trivial platinum trophy, has only a 5.4% acquisition rate for its platinum.) The few people that played this game must've really loved it.
  • Bloodborne (PS4). Only 44.6% of players beat the first boss, Father Gascoigne, but 25.9% of players beat the boss that triggers the endgame to start. So FromSoftware lost half their players in the game's first area (or the character creator again), but of the roughly half that made it out, roughly half of that half went on to finish the game. Talk about polarizing opinions.
  • Kingdoms of Amalur Re-Reckoning (PS4). How common is it for players to rage-quit in the character creator in any given game, I wonder? Because only 69.1% of the people that played the game collected the "Reborn" trophy for clearing the prologue. I don't get it; a 90% rate would make more sense, but even that would imply that 10% of their players started the game once, decided "oh hell no," and then went back to playing FIFA.

What are others' observations? All platforms with achievements/trophies are valid.

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[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There are a lot of games where a sizeable amount of players won't have the initial achievements.

They may have just launched the game and never played it, achievements could have been added later on after the release like with Grand Theft Auto IV, some people only play multiplayer, or there may be something in place to disable achievements when you mod the game like in Fallout New Vegas.

[–] frog@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

or there may be something in place to disable achievements when you mod the game like in Fallout New Vegas.

This is why my achievements for Skyrim look completely incongruent with my play time. Someone might assume that I'd spent 700 hours in the character creator...

[–] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. Even though there are achievement enabler mods for Fallout 3/NV/4 and Skyrim I imagine a sizeable chunk of players just couldn't be bothered.

[–] frog@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I actually didn't even realise those mods existed. I know what I'm adding to my next Skyrim playthrough. There are so many achievements I don't have...

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't realise Skyrim blocked achievements when modding, I'd definitely didn't back in the day, it's one of the few games that I have all achievements on and I've modded it to hell basically every time.

[–] frog@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I think it didn't used to either, as I have some achievements on the original version of the game, and I'm pretty sure I've never played it unmodded. But I have no achievements at all on the later editions, despite many, many hours of playtime.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean like Terraria's achievement to chop down a tree, that over 13% of Steam players haven't done?

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, the sample size is out of people who've booted up the game ever. So 13% of players downloaded it, installed it, thought about playing it, and didn't get much further than the menu screen. 7% of players of Fallout: New Vegas never finished the first mission.

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

7% seems like a reasonable number of people who never opened the game after getting it on sale/in a bundle