Save Game Statistics (The missed opportunity!)

[Gridfan]

Currently my article is a Featured Post on http://www.gamasutra.com/

And here is the direct url to it (in case you can't see it on the frontpage):
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RogerHge ... tunity.php

[Screaminfu]

very cool griddy, just read through and practically everything you mention makes perfect logical sense. very well written

here's to hoping that game devs take notice and incorporate it into future titles, the data gathered would be very useful to any dev wanting to see how players behave with a given set of content so that future content caters specifically to how the majority of gamers play.

very cool my friend, very cool

[Shigy]

Very good point griddy and I know valve have learnt a fair bit from it. The one thing that I can think of thats not on your list is you can see where players got stuck for long periods of time or quit entirely.

[Gridfan]

True, but I was hoping that bright developers would see that possibility on their own without me spelling it out for them. (if they need THAT much help maybe they should hire me

The article just outlined the basic functionality such a feature should have.
Valve and BioWare has truly impressed me all these years, especially BioWare which is currently my No1 favorite game developer.