Introduction

So first a quick administrative note, Nora is staying on in a new role as the multimedia magistrate. She brings a ton of experience in streaming and the Fist office to the table. More to follow on what that’s going to look like in the new year. No one applied for the community events magistrate slot sad tiger noises so I’ll keep it open for now and keep an eye out for promising candidates to approach directly.

This report is mostly about 2022 and a round-up of the various data points.

2022 Gaming Data

So here is the data on what you all have been playing (or at least submitting to the site) in 2022:

Casual Gaming Queue

2022 was the first full calendar year with Casual Gaming Queue and included the first vendetta that supported it. After some data cleanup and consolidating some submissions into meaningful titles this is what we have for the year. I’ve sorted this by unique members in the submissions and then by number of submissions, so how many people played the game and how many times was it submitted.

Game Title	Members	Submissions	Platform	Cost
papergames.io (Consolidated)	22	24	Browser	Free To Play
Dead By Daylight	11	47	Cross-Platform	Paid
Deep Rock Galactic	11	15	Console	Paid
Insurgency Sandstorm	8	10	PC Only	Paid
Multiversus	7	21	Cross-Platform	Free To Play
Pokemon Unite	7	7	Mobile	Free To Play
Chess.Com	7	6	Browser	Free To Play
Goose Goose Duck	7	3	Cross-Platform	Free To Play
Putt Party (Discord)	7	1	Browser	Free To Play
Pokemon Showdown	6	13	Browser	Free To Play
Scrabble Go	6	13	Mobile	Free To Play
Warhammer: Vermintide 2	6	5	PC Only	Paid
Star Trek Online	5	7	PC Only	Free To Play
MechWarrior Online	5	6	PC Only	Free To Play
Rocket League	5	5	Cross-Platform	Free To Play
Final Fantasy XIV	4	11	PC Only	Paid
For Honor	4	11	Cross-Platform	Paid
Apex Legends	4	10	Cross-Platform	Free To Play
Pokemon Go	4	9	Mobile	Free To Play
Star Wars Galaxies	4	6	PC Only	Free To Play
Civilization VI	4	3	PC Only	Paid
Prop And Seek	4	1	PC Only	Paid
Super Auto Pets	3	4	Cross-Platform	Free To Play
MechWarrior Online	3	2	PC Only	Free To Play
Starcraft Remastered	3	2	PC Only	Paid
Ground Branch	3	1	PC Only	Paid
World of Warships	2	3	Cross-Platform	Free To Play
Insurgency Sandstorm	2	2	PC Only	Paid
Pazaak	2	2	Browser	Free To Play
Cockatrice (MTG online)	2	1	Browser	Free To Play
Hell Let Loose	2	1	PC Only	Paid
Super Smash Brothers Ultimate	2	1	PC Only	Paid
Warhammer 40000: Darktide	2	1	PC Only	Paid
Warzone.com	2	1	Browser	Free To Play

I added some identifiers to the Casual Queue submissions because I was curious about where people were playing games and whether a game being free or paid had any effect.

We have a pretty good mix of platforms with cross-platform and browser/mobile games making up the lion’s share.

While Free-to-play is the majority I was expecting it to be a larger share.

Supported Games

I left casual queue in the submissions here for a point of comparison. This is pulled directly from the site so “Matchmaking” generally refers to PVP and everything else is PVE.

Platform	Submissions	Unique participants
Casual Gaming Queue	343	84
Star Wars: The Old Republic	270	46
Halo: Infinite	209	45
Heroes of the Storm (PvE)	156	35
Battlefront 2 Co-Op (2017)	114	25
Star Wars: Squadrons Matchmaking	72	22
Star Wars: Squadrons vs AI	28	19
Battlefront 2 (2017)	73	18
Jedi Academy	46	17
Star Wars: Squadrons Matchmaking	7	15
Mario Kart 8	55	14
Star Wars: The Old Republic Matchmaking	21	13
Hearthstone	7	12
Overwatch	10	8
Apex: Legends	246	7
Star Wars Customizable Card Game (Online)	38	6
Diablo 3	8	5
Warframe(WF)	3	5
Destiny 2 Matchmaking	5	4
Heroes of the Storm	2	4
Star Conflict	3	2
Star Conflict Matchmaking	1	2
Destiny 2	1	2
Star Wars: Squadrons Matchmaking	1	2

I combined PVE and PVP for this chart. Now this is just raw number of submissions. Apex is a bit of outlier because while it’s a large number of submissions it’s a relatively small group doing the submissions. This is why unique participants is probably the biggest metric I look at when it comes to evaluating a platform.

Top Submitters for 2022

I like looking at who does the screenshot submissions over a period of time. These are the top twenty submitters for 2022, with the unique members they submitted for. Be sure to pat them on the back for what they do for our community. Not me though, it’s kind of my job :P

Submitter	Submissions	Unique participants
Adept Bentre Stahoes	396	44
Adept Rajhin Cindertail	132	43
Adept Aurora "Aura" Ta'var	97	32
General Kenath Zoron Ad Vizsla	43	25
Adept Sanguinius Tsucyra Entar	37	19
Adept Thran Occasus-Palpatine	141	18
Professional randyrumrnr	21	16
Commander Raleien Sonavarret	27	14
Warden Jafits Skrumm	25	14
Reaver Diyrian "Diy" Grivna	142	13
Battlelord Talon Jade	54	13
Corsair Juda Graves	17	13
Lieutenant Colonel Tuuka Vurr	64	12
Warlord Tahiri Thorn Morte Tarentae	35	12
Knight Konar Auryus-Saas	40	10
Reaver Qyreia Arronen	24	10
Augur Edgar Drachen	16	10
Adept Uji Tameike	18	9
Battlemaster Nora Olen	37	6
Mystic Luka Zarkot	121	5

2022 Reflections

So based on the data and a bit of my personal observation/intuition, I would say the gaming community is overall healthy with room for growth. The party tool on discord sees fairly regular use, which is good to see, and members join each other in games fairly regularly. An area of growth for 2023 I’ve identified is more people submitting their activity at all. We all have single-player games or groups of people we game with outside the club and that’s fine. From my official point of view I want to ensure that the club has the right incentives in place and have removed any barriers or impediments that discourage people from submitting. I think the XP system will have impacts on gaming in 2023 when people can see that direct connection between clusters and competition submissions and getting where they want to be in the club.

The games we added in 2022, Mario Kart and SW:CCG haven’t quite panned out like I wanted to. While I will be giving Dead By Daylight and Deep Rock Galactic closer looks in the near future I don’t see any games currently out that have that critical mass of people playing it consistently. I have high hopes for stuff that’s coming out in 2023 like Diablo 4.

I have posted as much data as I practically could so you could look at it along with your own observations. I’ll be running a #asktheFist all weekend long in discord so if you have a question or comment about 2022 in gaming please drop it in chat. I want this to be the start of a conversation.

Closing

I’ll talk more about 2023 plans in my next report but for now join the conversation!

Rajhin Cindertail aka Turel

Fist of the Brotherhood