| ioi said: Well there is no point in just copying the other sites scores is there? Either we try to do something similar / better or we just leave the system as it is. As many have said, the gameranking aspect is more of an add-on than a central feature of the site, the idea being when you click on a game to see it's sales you also get some background info on the game - screenshots, a summary, some reviews, videos and a score. I don't see it as a waste of my time to set up a framework that users can add this information into. One day this could become the complete one-stop database for all things videogame related. For now then, I'll probably leave the scores aspect as it is. Personally I agree with a lot of the scores, I think many of the game just need a lot more votes. How many would be interested in writing reader reviews if I made a proper section for it and it was more obviously linked to etc on the site? |
Well, if you want vgchartz to have its *own* version of Metacritic/Gamerankings scores from other sites, I think the important thing is to have a fixed list of review sites that can be added. I'll give one example: Maxim magazine (obviously NOT a video game review magazine) gave BioShock 3/5, or 60%, but neither Metacritic or Gamerankings counts Maxim's review scores so it didn't show up in the composite score (it would have been the lowest score by like 20%).
If you don't have a fixed list, fanboy types will find random reviews that are either really high or really low (depending on their affiliation) and add those, since there are literally thousands of reviews out there with the proliferation of blogs and whatnot. So it should be limited. I think both Gamerankings and Metacritic list the sources they get reviews from, so that would be a good place at least for developing a list of acceptable review sources.
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
