HACKER Q&A
📣 amichail

Should one avoid leaderboards in a mobile game that is not popular yet?


Leaderboards would reveal the game's lack of popularity to players in an obvious way — and hence might discourage them from playing the game.

What do you think?

  👤 Raed667 Accepted Answer ✓
Or mix fake data with user-data? Some "multiplayer" games (the .io kind) even fake player agents.
👤 muzani
I actually enjoy being ranked #5 in a game rather than #18291. Honestly, even in the low thousands, I don't normally check my rank.

I have very recently played a game with about 15 active players. I ranked quite low, but it was a lot of fun. There's nothing necessarily wrong with an unpopular game and it's sometimes nice to be "significant" in a small community. MUDs are still around and many have at most a dozen players on at any one time.