It doesn’t really matter for the purposes of filtering out slop, although you’d need to account for people like me with huge libraries with tons of good games we’ve never played.
No single metric is going to give a good picture of what’s good or not. You’d need several layers of filters.
A ratio between hours played and sale counts would be a better metric.
Boring grind and hours of fun are tracked just the same
It doesn’t really matter for the purposes of filtering out slop, although you’d need to account for people like me with huge libraries with tons of good games we’ve never played.
No single metric is going to give a good picture of what’s good or not. You’d need several layers of filters.
Number of people still playing over a year after launch probably isn’t a bad one to look at.