Live Service and Player Retention Questions

Design and operation of live service systems that drive long term player engagement and retention. Topics include progression systems, seasonal content and pacing, battle pass and reward loop design, social features and community mechanics, live operations and content cadence, onboarding and retention funnels, monetization fairness and ethics, churn reduction strategies, cohort analysis and retention metrics, controlled experiments to validate changes, and the operational concerns for deploying and moderating live content. Candidates should discuss metric driven iteration, trade offs between short term revenue and long term retention, and how live service decisions interact with economy and player sentiment.