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Live Service Games Summit: Welcome Back, Tacticians: How 'Teamfight Tactics' Supports Returning Players
Peter Whalen (Sr. Game Director, Riot Games)
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Track: Live Service Games
Format: Lecture
Vault Recording: TBD
Audience Level: All
Peter Whalen, Game Director for Teamfight Tactics (TFT), the largest PC strategy game in the world and leader in the autobattler genre, will share how TFT supports returning players and achieves record-breaking numbers around player retention. Learn actionable techniques for live service games to cultivate a culture within the dev team and player community that keeps the game accessible to returning players across short-term and long-term periods of time. Peter will explain why TFT values returning players and why your game should prioritize this segment of players.
Takeaway
If games prioritize the player experience and create fun, engaging content, then players will leave happy and always come back. Live service games should cultivate a culture that balances maintaining depth for active players, giving lapsed players reasons to reengage, and making it easy to come back.
Intended Audience
Product Managers, game developers, and publishing professionals at all levels working on live service games.
