MIHIR SANGHVI

World of Warcraft Avatar History Dataset

Gameplay Hours and Player Retention Analysis

Most Popular Class-Race Combinations

Top 5 Class/Race Combinations

1. Paladin – Blood Elf 2. Mage – Blood Elf 3. Warlock – Blood Elf4. Rouge – Blood Elf5. Warrior – Orc

Most Popular Class-Race Combinations

Top 5 Class/Race Combinations

1. Priest – Undead2. Mage – Undead3. Warlock – Undead4. Hunter – Troll5. Hunter – Orc

Conclusion

Based on the average number of times unique players/avatars observed during monitored period, following are the most popular combinations:

1. Priest – Undead2. Mage – Undead3. Warlock – Undead4. Hunter – Troll5. Hunter – Orc

However, based on the percentage of the total number of unique players/avatars registered under each combination during monitored period, the following are the most popular combinations:

6. Paladin – Blood Elf 7. Mage – Blood Elf 8. Warlock – Blood Elf9. Rouge – Blood Elf10.Warrior – Orc

Most Popular Gameplay Hour by ClassClass Popular

HourDruid 21Hunter 13Mage 21Paladin 21Priest 22Rogue 18Shaman 23

Warlock 19

Warrior 19

Conclusion

• From the plot it is evident that for all class, number of players/avatars decreases between 12 am to 6 am and starting from 6 am to 12 am it increases

• Except for Hunter class, for all other class, the most popular hour was between 7 pm to 11 pm

Average Daily Unique Avatar Key Statistics by Month

Conclusion:

Maximum variance observed in the month of April

It could be due to any significant event like the launch of new class/race or any negative event like frequent server down issues

Average Daily Unique Avatar Key Statistics by Month

Conclusion:

Excluding the outliers, looking at interquartile range from the box plot, month of April showed maximum spread

Note: Numbers in the middle of the box plots are the average daily unique avatar counts

Distribution of Avatar Level by Class-Race Combination

Conclusion:

It seems that each race has a different group of classes to choose from

i.e. Not all races have all classes available

Time series Plot of Avatar Count by Player Level

Conclusion:

Significant amount of players moved from level 60 to 61 starting from the month of April

It resulted into the decrease in number of players in (50,60] bin and an increase in (60,70] bin

Average Player Retention Days by Class

Removed censored data points and the users with less than 30 days of retention (Trial Version Period)

Selected Interquartile range (IQR) as a measure of spread since it will not be affected by outliers

Average Player Retention Days by Class

Used Kaplan-Meier Estimator to plot Survival Curves for each class

Average Player Retention Days by ClassClass Total

PlayersChurn Count

Median Survival Time

0.95LCL

0.95UCL

Druid 55 46 237 147 292Hunter 125 101 198 154 270Mage 163 133 168 134 229Paladin 86 47 238 157 265Priest 86 65 281 203 317Rogue 127 94 206 166 262Shaman

91 74 264 201 329

Warlock

131 100 223 189 266

Warrior 123 95 212 169 255Median Retention/Survival time in days with 95% confidence interval limits using Kaplan-Meier Estimator

Conclusion

Looking at both, box plot(Average survival in days) and survival plot (median survival times), Priest class has highest retention time in days

The End