CK2 Dev Diary #46: Surveying the Survey

[rageair]

Greetings!

In today’s Dev Diary we would like to present some of the information we gathered from the CK2 survey we did some time ago. The survey is based on a sample size of between 4000-5000 answers per data point. Note that we have not measured what you thought of any free features that came in the major patches, but rather this survey focused on the paid features of our various DLC’s. I won’t present all of it in this DD, but I will bring up some interesting points that might amuse you!


Amount of survey takers that both Owns and Plays a given DLC:

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Sword of Islam - 90.8%

Legacy of Rome - 92,36%

Sunset Invasion - 71,54%

The Republic - 89.32%

The Old Gods - 96,17%

Sons of Abraham - 91,92%

Rajas of India - 82,29%

Charlemagne - 91,66%

Way of Life - 92,97%

Horse Lords - 82,91%

Conclave - 81,57%

Reaper’s Due - 79,29%

The DLC’s that built the most hype before they were released:

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The Old Gods

• A total of 92,05% of the ones taking the test were excited for the DLC - and most impressively a whopping 64,01% were extremely interested!

The Reaper’s Due

• A total of 80,87% of the ones taking the test were excited for the DLC - and of those 47,27% were extremely interested. While The Old Gods tops the charts for pre-release hype, The Reaper’s Due also significantly peaked the interests!

Way of Life

• A total of 77,83% of the ones taking the test were excited for the DLC - and of those 42,38% were extremely interested.

While many DLC’s built a lot of interest before they were released, these three stand out from the crowd.

The DLC’s that built the least hype:

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Sunset Invasion

• A total of 34,3% of the ones taking the test were not interested in this DLC, with 33,10% being indifferent.

This leaves the Sunset Invasion as the only DLC that did not manage to build much interest.

The DLC’s that exceeded your expectations the most:

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The Reaper’s Due

• A total of 76,73% of the ones taking the test thought that it was better than expected - where 42,52% thought it exceeded their expectations by a landslide!

The Old Gods

• A total of 82,53% of the ones taking the test thought that it was better than expected - where 41,91% thought it exceeded their expectations by a landslide!

This means that while The Old Gods is the overall winner, The Reaper’s Due had the most people being completely blown away.

And the other side of the coin, the DLC’s that did not live up to your expectations:

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Sunset Invasion

• A total of 26,97% of the ones taking the test thought that this DLC didn’t live up to their initial impressions, with a respectable 49,17% thinking it was just as expected.

This leaves the Sunset Invasion as the only DLC where for a lot of players it did not live up to the initial impression.

The DLC’s that has content you use the most often:

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Way of Life

• With a whopping total of 96,83% of the ones taking the test using content from this DLC in just about every game they play, Way of Life takes the unchallenged top spot. Of these, 85,57% use Way of Life content in every game they play.

The Reaper’s Due

• A total of 89,69% of the ones taking the test uses content from this DLC in just about every game they play. Of these, 69,80% use The Reaper’s Due content in every game they play.

The Old Gods

• A total of 89,95% of the ones taking the test uses content from this DLC in just about every game they play. Of these, 56,23% use The old Gods content in every game they play.

The DLC’s that has content you use the least often:

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Sunset Invasion

• A total of 61,97% rarely use any content from this DLC. Among them 26,69% never use any content.

Rajas of India

• A total of 49,52% rarely use any content from this DLC. Among them 13,64% never use any content.

Sword of Islam

• A total of 33,17% rarely use any content from this DLC. Though only 3,91% never use any content.

The most AND least well received feature, per DLC:

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Sword of Islam

• Most: Polygamy
• Least: Decadence

Legacy of Rome

• Most: Retinues
• Least: Ability to Restore Rome

(Note that there were only 2 data points for this DLC, Restoring Rome actually scored quite high, but retinues has it beat by a landslide)


Sunset Invasion

• Most: Aztec Culture & Religion
• Least: Aztec Invasion Event

The Republic

• Most: Family Palaces
• Least: Republic CB’s and war restrictions

The Old Gods

• Most: Playable Pagans and Zoroastrians (This was the most well received feature of all features, with a massive majority of 92,55% rating this feature as great)
• Least: Adventurers

Sons of Abraham

• Most: Pilgrimages
• Least: Restoring the Kingdom of Israel

Rajas of India

• Most: New Playable Religions
• Least: Jungle Terrain

Charlemagne

• Most: Custom Kingdoms and Empires
• Least: Zun Religion (This is the feature that interested the least players overall, with 46,22% rating this feature as uninteresting, narrowly beating Jungle Terrain by ~4%)

Way of Life

• Most: Lifestyle Traits
• Least: Character Focus

(Note that once again there were only 2 data points for this DLC)


Horse Lords

• Most: Silk Road Features
• Least: Clan Politics

Conclave

• Most: Reworked Laws
• Least: Favors

Reaper’s Due

• Most: New Maimed Traits
• Least: Seclusion

The additions that you rate the highest in a new DLC:

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1. New Events - With an overwhelming majority of 73,16% appreciating this type of addition very much.
   
   
2. New Starting Dates - With 51,53% appreciating this type of addition very much.
   
   
3. Reworked Previously Existing Features - With 44,25% appreciating this type of addition very much.
   
   
4. Expanded Map - With 38,94% appreciating this type of addition very much.
   
   
5. New Succession Laws - With 29,16% appreciating this type of addition very much.
   
   
6. Interface Skins - With 25,24% appreciating this type of addition very much.

We hope that this was interesting to you, even though it’s in a heavily condensed format - hopefully we’ll be able to present even more survey results in the future!

 

[rageair]

Interesting! Will we ever see data showing most played starting characters/states? Or perhaps most and least created formable titles? (Roman Empire or the Kingdom of Ireland for example)

Maybe, that is telemetry and not survey material though. I'm sure we'll have another telemetry DD in the future. Anyway, as far as I remember from the last set of telemetry data I saw, there aren't any trends regarding which characters/titles players pick like there is in EU4, I think the most popular title was just over one % or something. As for start dates I remember that it was a fairly even split between 769, 867 and 1066.

Bashing Sunset Invasion is easy, I want to know what are the dlcs that raised least interest/worse expectations beyond it.

There wasn't any that stood out, all other DLC's were fairly well received. Of the well received I believe that Rajas of India was the least well received, but after that it's such a close tie between a multitude of DLC's that it's hardly interesting.