Recommendations to others considering GameAnalytics:
It’s worth evaluation and integrating but don’t rely on it for your sole data source (you really get what you pay for). For game specific metrics it’s not bad but they do need to fix some of their analytics explorer bugs to be useful and be able to drill down to identify issues.
For overall dashboards and a secondary source it’s a good choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What problems is GameAnalytics solving and how is that benefiting you?
Overall dashboards are good and can be useful for:
1) a secondary data source as a sanity check on key metrics
2) resource tracking, the data model offers several layers of granularity which is good to identify any leaks or issues in the economy
3) they also offer industry comparison benchmarks which may or may not be that useful
4) the monetization dashboard offers automatic IAP tracking as well as key high-level KPIs, however to do deep cohort/segmentation on payers is difficult or not possible
5) progression is a useful tool to understand players progression in the game and areas players maybe getting stuck or areas of the game which requires re-tuning Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.