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A Way Out Dev Decries Obsession With Replayability Because Most Players Don’t Even Finish Games



Known for his outspokenness, Hazelight Studios founder Josef Fares has a bone to pick with gamers and journalists who keep talking about ?replayability.? In an extensive interview with Polygon, Fares argued that it doesn?t make sense for the industry to be obsessed with the replayability factor when data shows that majority of players don?t even finish games.
As Polygon pointed out, lengthy games like Red Dead Redemption 2 have considerably low completion rates (around 28 percent on PlayStation, according to trophy data). Fares believes that the industry needs to stop harping on about replayability when ?maybe two percent? of players actually replay games.

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