Only 25% of players have beaten Hogwarts Legacy, and RPG fans are at war over what that means

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RPG fans are debating how to measure the enduring success of a game, as Hogwarts Legacy's 'completion' rate and player count have stalled six weeks after release.

On Twitter (opens in new tab), one user highlighted Hogwarts Legacy's drop in players since its launch in early February, poking fun at a significant drop-off from the game's peak at 880,000 concurrent users to just 75,000 players late last week.

There are some significant caveats to that drop; many games see their audiences drop over time, and it's still relatively rare to see them break their original peaks outside of that launch window; a player count of 75,000 would also still make Hogwarts Legacy one of the biggest games on Steam, and indeed at time of writing, well outside of peak times, it remains in the top 25. Most notably for many players, its status as an entirely single-player experience means that many players would be likely to finish up the game and see minimal need to return.

While that's likely to be true, user AdequateEmily said that the idea that people would only play a single-player game through once is underwritten by the fact "that there's been a huge drop off in achievements where less than 30% of players have even beaten the final boss." Steam does note that only 24.9% of players have earned the 'Hero of Hogwarts' achievement for completing the main story, but that's not really the whole story.

People are like “uhhh it’s a single player game, people only play it once” in the replies and ignoring that there’s a huge drop off in achievements where less than 30% of players have even beaten the final boss. https://t.co/Zm3DgBRbAkMarch 19, 2023

Plenty of replies point out that games like Skyrim or The Witcher 3 - two beloved RPGs - boast