Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years

Re:Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active player... by serverholic on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:38PM (#27055444)

This is why "you can't improve what you don't measure" bothers me. It's rare that you can condense all useful information into a number and it encourages people to remove critical thinking from the equation. People come to rely on the number instead of thinking deeply about what they're doing.

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Re:Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active player... by oriel on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:59PM (#27055746)

This is basically Goodhart's law (quote from Marilyn Strathern's generalization). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

> When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

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