We all know that Glitch is special but still these statistics are worth thinking about:
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I really enjoyed Glitch's new improved player tutorial, which I made an alt to try out (a couple of weeks after TS asked people to wait so they could do more testing.) It is sweet, slow, and comprehensive. On the other hand, I had the experience of sitting next to an actual new player trying it last week, and his experience was that it was very slow, expecting him to invest a lot of time and attention learning skills for a game he didn't yet know if he wanted to take on. He is now a statistic of someone who played for one tutorial hour or so and then logged off untempted to try it again. I think maybe the tutorial should incorporate more surprises and prizes and less learning time, then get people out into where they can interact with other glitchen rather than dumping new people randomly into unpopulated areas.