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pbroy on 09 March 2016

I want my GameDB. 😢

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JoeTheBro on 09 March 2016
SJReiter said:
Without delving too deep into the history of this site, could someone briefly explain what the "split" was that was mentioned in some of the above posts? I guess there was a group of members that left VGC for another site?

That happened too on multiple occasions, but I don't think it had a significant impact on this forum.



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DEAD_ORIGINAL on 09 March 2016

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Spedfrom on 09 March 2016

As far as I see it, two things need to happen: Brett needs to teach Machina how to do HW mumbers and he needs to give Truck full access to the site. This way Truck would sort out all the database, site code and adjustment numbers bugs which would lead to Machina uploading his SW and HW numbers and updating them as necessary in a timely fashion.

In summary, Brett must recognise his diminished interest in this project and pass it on to the people that want to continue and improve it.



Platina on 09 March 2016
TruckOSaurus said:
spemanig said:

Thanks for the clarification. Specifically with the Prediction League, can you delve into more detail with what that is? To me, it sounds like just a forum contest like many of the ones we already do. While I agree that it would be a perfect tool to get the community involved with numbers, isn't this something the (other) Ambassadors could do just as easily? Why does it specifically need your skills? Or am I misunderstanding what it is?

Also, what exactly is wrong with the game DB anyway, functionally? 

The Prediction League was an official forum contest, you could bet VG$ (what we had before points) on the upcoming game releases and latest hardware numbers. When the numbers were updated VG$ was awarded according to the accuracy of the predictions. This was all done automatically, meaning the prediction were stored in the site's database, the results would automatically change your VG$ total.

A forum version of the Prediction League was already attempted in the past but it's way too much work for the person running the league and even for the users wanting to play. Interest died down very quickly. The project I have is to bring back that automated version of the prediction league.

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Edit: Forgot to answer about the DB. We used to be able to add games to the DB ourselves, add release dates, cover art and other details. GameDB admins would go over the information and if everything checked out it was added for everyone to see. This had the huge advantage that our game DB was always up to date as users would rush to add a game the moment it was announced, all games had their respective cover art and release info. 

So VG$ was not real money, but sort of a 'game' currency in a sense?

This is what I would like to see return with the Game DB, would be very nice to have up to date infos and proper names for games



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COKTOE on 09 March 2016
Skeeuk said:
i wish VGC went back to the old 2008 white VGC - it was the best time to be on here, pages loaded very quick

That's blatantly racist. And you should use the term European, not white.



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TruckOSaurus on 09 March 2016
Spedfrom said:
As far as I see it, two things need to happen: Brett needs to teach Machina how to do HW mumbers and he needs to give Truck full access to the site. This way Truck would sort out all the database, site code and adjustment numbers bugs which would lead to Machina uploading his SW and HW numbers and updating them as necessary in a timely fashion.

In summary, Brett must recognise his diminished interest in this project and pass it on to the people that want to continue and improve it.

I agree 100% with this.



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TruckOSaurus on 09 March 2016
Platina said:
TruckOSaurus said:

The Prediction League was an official forum contest, you could bet VG$ (what we had before points) on the upcoming game releases and latest hardware numbers. When the numbers were updated VG$ was awarded according to the accuracy of the predictions. This was all done automatically, meaning the prediction were stored in the site's database, the results would automatically change your VG$ total.

A forum version of the Prediction League was already attempted in the past but it's way too much work for the person running the league and even for the users wanting to play. Interest died down very quickly. The project I have is to bring back that automated version of the prediction league.

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Edit: Forgot to answer about the DB. We used to be able to add games to the DB ourselves, add release dates, cover art and other details. GameDB admins would go over the information and if everything checked out it was added for everyone to see. This had the huge advantage that our game DB was always up to date as users would rush to add a game the moment it was announced, all games had their respective cover art and release info. 

So VG$ was not real money, but sort of a 'game' currency in a sense?

This is what I would like to see return with the Game DB, would be very nice to have up to date infos and proper names for games

VG$ had some use (although very limited). You could buy access to the VGC Messenger (chat rooms) with it and... um... not much else from what I recall.

This reminds me that I'd like to implement a Facebook-like chat system one of these days for VGC.



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Mike321 on 09 March 2016
TruckOSaurus said:
Spedfrom said:
As far as I see it, two things need to happen: Brett needs to teach Machina how to do HW mumbers and he needs to give Truck full access to the site. This way Truck would sort out all the database, site code and adjustment numbers bugs which would lead to Machina uploading his SW and HW numbers and updating them as necessary in a timely fashion.

In summary, Brett must recognise his diminished interest in this project and pass it on to the people that want to continue and improve it.

I agree 100% with this.

I don't understand why hasn't Brett give Machina and you more power to control the site, clearly he is not as invested as he once was.



                                                                                     

Turkish on 09 March 2016
Spedfrom said:
As far as I see it, two things need to happen: Brett needs to teach Machina how to do HW mumbers and he needs to give Truck full access to the site. This way Truck would sort out all the database, site code and adjustment numbers bugs which would lead to Machina uploading his SW and HW numbers and updating them as necessary in a timely fashion.

In summary, Brett must recognise his diminished interest in this project and pass it on to the people that want to continue and improve it.

I agree. A lot of people lost interest in the site once the HW numbers stopped coming like they used to.