| Wright said: One day, when ioi is bored, he will come to VGChartz, press one button and suddenly we'll have all our badges updated. Then he will hibernate again from the time being.
You know, ioi reminds me of it:
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So... You are saying we cant distract him with trickery?
spurgeonryan said:
Why even keep track of posts? Why not just communist up this site and make everybody have nothing. I am sure some care bout their posts. Just because you do not care about something does not mean others do not. Basically saying screw you all who put time in the database back in the day (which now pays the bills on gamewise) all who have made posts and threads and wall posts that have helped ioi pay the bills for years. Do you know how long and hard some of us worked on these badges? Etc?
They are nothing but accolades, trophies. Do we just erase history, no matter how unhappy some are over it?
Incorporate them or add them to something else if you want, but to just get rid of worthless points, badges, and post tracking would be a big Fuck you to everyone who has been here over the years. We can still have vg$ and keep points and badges as well. Everyone blame yourselves for most of our site being gone. The constant complaining over mising old features, colors, gamrconnect features, etc made ioi dump this site for gamewise. Our wonderfully easy database gone for the confusing crap of gamewise, that only soccer moms give money to when looking for mobile game tips. If ya'll would have stopped complaining we would still have a database, gamrtv, gamrconnect, review, etc here.
So now ya'll want to make even more changes at the expense of others. Disgusting, and selfish! No one learns from the past. Nobody gave a shit about vgchat or vg$ until it was gone. Now we constantly argue for the same thing to happen to points and badges.At least badges are fun. Points just got a bad rap, but used to get you prizes. If done right, it could happen again, but only award prizes based on a threads popularity, if it does well, the points are rewarded and is added to the total.
anyways, just ideas. Please though, in the future do not take a giant dump on what some have spent years earning. Spamish badges for me and others are not the only badges out there. Also lets not forget that pretty much anyone who gets 10,000 points a month, is pretty much guaranteed to have given the site 500,000 page views or more for that month. Profile views, threads created vjews, your own posts and clicks, people cliking to see your posts, etc. I have added it up multiple times. Many months I brought the site over a million views from all I just listed. Same with many others including yourself last month.
Grass is always greener on the other side, but each time ioi has made a change t this site since its inception, people have hated it. Just saying. History lesson for ya'll noobs. |
wow good job on getting elitist....
First of all the point system works, so i don't see any need to remove it, but the badges are just broken plain and simple. why are you supporting a broken system in which new members can't join in, just because you did something 4 years back?
". The constant complaining over mising old features, colors, gamrconnect features, etc made ioi dump this site for gamewise"
HA, its the other way around, he left the site for multiple projects, which resulted in a lower focus here.
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Not until Sony rereleases.....err, I mean remasters badges in 1080p and 60fps.
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spurgeonryan said: --- |
I get what you're saying and I agree with it, but you misunderstood my post entirely. Keep badges and keep the points system, but don't leave them either unfinished (badges) or without a purpose (points). If they were updated regularly or could be used for something then great; it'd be an incentive for people to post and to add to discussion to "unlock" features.
But right now? There's no point as it is.
gergroy said:
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Definitively xD
AAA300 said:
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That avatar is very familiar, I think I've seen you post a couple of times since the moment I joined.. 
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Funny, you have the same one badge as I do. I think it's the only one that works anymore. Though I got it when I got to 15 friends instead of 10, so I don't think it works properly either. I'm missing like 10 or so badges. The badges are just broken on this site. Thanks for making this thread. I wanted to make one exactly like it months ago, but wasn't sure if I should or not.
Conegamer said:
I could agree with this. Best to not have them than to leave it unfinished. Same with the points system as well. They're there for no real purpose after all |
I disagree. As far as I'm concerned, they're a measure of how active and respected you are on the site that goes beyond the post count. Sure, a user has 50,000 posts, but if they got that by posting 50 times a day, hardly contributing anything each time, never making a thread, never making friends, never posting on user walls, just commenting in each thread, they'd only end up with 150,000 points. Meanwhile you've got users like spurge who have about 45,000 posts and over 500,000 points, because he's contributed to the site and done more with it. Salnax has about 6000 posts, which would be 18,000 points, yet he has twice as many points as that, because he makes incredible threads that people comment on all the time, and he has a ton of badges to show for it too. Sure, you might say making quality threads, sticking around for years, and being a friendly contributor to the community would get you respect without needing an arbitrary number or arbitrary icons underneath your avatar to back it up, but not for noobs. Having the points and badges there establishes a pecking order, so that when new people come in, they can get a better idea of who's who. A noob could easily come in to a site without points and badges and think a user with a few thousand posts over several years was nothing but a nobody lurker, while that same noob, seeing that same user having hundreds of thousands of points and tons of shiny badges, would know that the guy really had been around, and must have done something to earn it all, and might show the user more respect.
That said, the point system doesn't have to be the way it is. It could be designed better to indicate the respect a user has. For example, I've seen some sites use a system where you can give a user upvotes or downvotes when they contribute posts, threads, etc., so that their points stat reflected not how long they'd been around or how many things they'd done, but actually directly measured how much respect the user had inspired in other users. Perfect example: Reddit, with it's karma.
But also, ask yourself this: Why did gamers back in the day, and even today sometimes, try to score points in a video game? Why do gamers like achievements, trophies, and gamerscore? For the respect, that's certainly part of it, but also because it's kinda fun!
| BraLoD said: I have no badges  Maybe they will never be updated again. |
No worries! ioi remembers once in a while that VGChartz has badges which need to be updated..
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