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Thursday Thoughts: Are platform recaps festive fun, or are we oversaturated with social summaries?

'Tis the season for end-of-year recaps, and it seems like every platform wants you to look back over the year. Spotify Wrapped shares your listening habits, TikTok and YouTube highlight popular trends, and Reddit has its Year in Review (renamed Recap, as of 2021), to name but a few.

These are all different platforms, requiring different approaches that each have their own flavour, but we’re interested in what you think. Are recaps something that should be personal, showing you your own stats and encouraging you to share, or should they be platform-wide, summarising how everyone has been engaging?

Do you think a Just About recap would work, and what would you want to see in one? Would you prioritise your own stats, such as posts with the most reactions, or would you want to see a platform-wide summary of bounties, discussions, etc?

Let us know what you think!

Created at 4:00pm, 7th December, 2023. Page last updated at 2:43pm, 16th May, 2024.

FirestormGamingTeam 12/7/2023, 5:03:51 PM

IMO

If a game is a subscription then the developers should make an active effort for Xmas celebrations/gifts/free stuff - This is simply because obviously, we are paying each month to play the game, and ofc at that point, you will expect a certain level fo respect back from the developers to want to show how glad they are, people want to play the game and let's be honest, it costs them nothing to do this stuff, just a bit of time and effort.

If a game is free to play and based on MCT for their profit margin then I would say, to not expect much from them in terms of Xmas-themed niceties and freebies. This is simply because, their money/time/effort is based solely on us buying extra things from them, so it's less likely to happen.

So with these two points in mind, you can draw your own conclusions based on this. But, my conclusion on both these points is companies are under no obligation to provide free stuff and or Xmas themed holidays, but it's nice when they do :)

Philip 12/8/2023, 11:02:00 AM

I'm a regular on Reddit, though I have to say the Recaps I've seen so far have felt 'meh'.

I think JA's different options for reactions would inspire better Recaps... Eg. These are the posts you loved, these are the ones you found funny, etc.