{"id":12243,"date":"2021-06-10T09:05:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T07:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamerefinery.com\/?p=12243"},"modified":"2021-06-10T09:05:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T07:05:35","slug":"analyze-top-grossing-games-liveops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamerefinery.com\/analyze-top-grossing-games-liveops\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to LiveOps – Using Market Share to Analyze Top-Grossing Games in the Same Subgenre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Congratulations! You are approaching the inevitable soft launch of your game for which you\u2019ve burned a fair share of midnight oil. Though to be warned, the real work begins now as you are entering the realm of LiveOps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is where the fun and grinding begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conan, what is best in LiveOps?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GameRefinery\u2019s Market Share offers an opportunity to study the historical performance of all the top-grossing games. Who have become rulers and who have been erased from the top-grossing ranks. The most visible data is the historical percentage share of each game per sub-genre which will help us find the necessary clues to understand the magic recipe of their LiveOps. These percentage changes can be used to pinpoint the games which have been excelling in their LiveOps through content & adding features over a set period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this tips & tricks article, we\u2019ll take a look into the 4X strategy sub-genre. As the old saying goes,\u201d numbers don\u2019t lie\u201d we\u2019ll take the top-performing games and their one year of LiveOps under the microscope. We will do a basic analysis of how many updates they\u2019ve had and what was included. The latest Game Update Impacts update makes analyzing content even easier now! Note that we are counting the updates and their types. To dwell deeper into the specific update content is saved for a future article. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Setting time periods in Market Share<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned, we\u2019ll be taking a look into the 4X strategy subgenre – We can set the scope to genre-level to see how different subgenres have developed over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this point, we will also mark \u201dShow subgenre share\u201d checked as we want to focus purely on all 4x strategy games out there. As the latest full quarter data we have from 2021 is from Q1 at the time of writing, it\u2019s natural that we set it as a starting point. Further, we set our comparison point to 2020 Q1 giving us one year of progress & market share data available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can now focus on the top 10 performing 4X strategy games and see both their revenue & download share over the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Six games out of ten have increased:<\/p>\n\n\n\n