I wanna say thank you to @simias for running another successful game club! Though our numbers may have dwindled, he fearlessly led us through the dark ages of the Famicom. I can hardly believe we’ve been playing these games almost every week since last September when we started FF1.
I hope that the Super Famicom titles will prove more popular in the long run.
I’m also curious to see what the FF7 Week 1 participation is going to look like… and how many will keep on playing.
I’m sure we’ve all wondered it, so I went through the polls. I counted both “preplaying” and “playing along” as participation, since we really have no way of knowing if the “catch up laters” ever did.
| Game | First week participation | Final week participation | Survival rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 53 | 18 | 34.0% |
| 2 | 24 | 15 | 62.5% |
| 3 | 19 | 11 | 57.9% |
Pretty much what I would’ve expected. I suspect 7’s dropoff will be even steeper than 1’s. It’s interesting that a higher percentage made it through 2 than 3, but that could just be recency - it’s only been a couple days since 3’s last week was posted, and it’s a beefy week.
For the upcoming FF4 club to try and put more actual language discussion in it I was thinking of trying to hold little language related questions each week: stuff like favourite new word learned, grammar you noticed, things like this. I think something similar was already planned by Simias by I will try to think of nice things too.
I wanted to do “music track of the week” but having Japanese-related prompts would be great as well!
Oh nice stats 
Yes it’s really nice to get those discussions going, thanks for posting those frequently and in different clubs!
Another idea could be something similar to what I remember seeing an ABC, where the person leading the club was making some weekly quizzes. Really made you pay attention. Like, what’s the name of NPC in X town? What’s their job? Or things like that.