Google Play Games now knows how and how much you play with your mobile
As every Thursday, Google usually launches new features in its services and applications It didn't matter that that same day they also started their event Google I/O for developers, drawing attention to these news. In any case, one of its improved services during the past day is the one that refers to the video games This is the application Google Play Games or Google Play Games as it was known until a few months ago, which is now capable of recording user activity and report it to the developers.
Thus, the new features of this service created to bring players together, find new titles and boasting scores, focus more on meeting the demands of developers and creators than those of the users themselves. And it is that now Google is able to know and record the activity of the players, knowing details of the hours they play, where get stuck or the way they use this type of entertainment to give creators various notions and clues that help them improve and create more related content
Some of these features were already available since the beginning of the year, when Google created a version of Analytics, or a data collection service, to have various details of the players and the gamesHowever, developers and creators needed to enhance this content with code that would collect this data Now, with this update, things are better.
Thus, Google presents a report with basic data as where players get stuck in their titles, differences between regular and casual players, and other metrics and useful information to find out in what your content may be failing, or what are its strong points But the best part is that developers won't need to make changes to their games, or perform extra tasks so thatGoogle read this data and collect it. Quite a convenience to avoid wasting time and invest all your efforts in improving the titles.
Along with this, Google makes available to developers new tools for operations to get better traction with your titles. Games that are more alive and that respond to the needs of the players who enjoy them. Of course, to do this, Google will study in detail when and how different users use these games.A point that some will not like, but it is necessary to be able to improve the experience and offer valuable data to developers to change things in their games in a much more concrete and effective way.
In short, an update that, on this occasion, is not focused on end users or players, but rather on content creators. Developers who will now have more clues about how their games are performing without the need to tweak the code or the guts of their titles so that Google collects and sends all this data .