fadetoone said:
| Arcturus said:
I'll extract the questions from your post and try and answer each:
"if GoW3 is more difficult than GoW, an GoW is a 2* then how does rating GoW3 a 2* represent its more difficult."
- I said that it was slightly more difficulty according to the users of ps3trophies.org by 0.8 (5.8 for GoW3 vs 5.0 GoW). The 5 star scale used here doesn't reflect small diffierences in difficulty like that (and for good reason). If one game has an average of 5.4 and another game has an average of 5.2, technically the game rated 5.4 is more difficult than the game rated 5.2, but they're both going to show up with the same star rating.
"And if we don't use their rating system to help with ours then what do we do. You even said a few posts ago u looked at ps3trophies.org."
- I typically look to ps3trophies as one source when determining a rating, but it isn't the sole source.
"And I've only seen 1 person who said it should be a 1* and it was by a guy who said he got it in about 9 hours which is highly unlikely. With looking for Godly possessions, horns, eyes, and feathers, along with the challenges i don't see it being beaten in 9 hours, mainly cuz the story is around 6 maybe 7 hours long.. But yet u believe his opinion on a 1* rating? hmm?"
- right, only one person suggested it should be a 1*, just like only one person suggested it be a 3* rating. The others (3 or 4 people) said they think it's 2*. Therefore, the average of those suggestions would be 2*. I'm not picking one person's suggestion and going with that, I look at what everyone is saying.
I'm more than willing to hear out suggestions on how we can improve the current rating system and how we can make it more fair. Please post your suggestions if you have some.
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Maybe we should just base our rating directly off of ps3trophies.org and then no one can complain that we're too subjective about it.
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I thought about doing that at one point. The biggest problem with that is the ratings over there are constantly changing as more people vote. Having to update the ratings for each game every week (even when a small change occurs like moving from 5.5 to 5.4) would be a time consuming nightmare. Even if I didn't go and update the numbers each week, I'd be hearing about it here that a rating there has changed and it hasn't been updated here.
Now, if I had a script to automatically grab and update the average ratings for each game... ;)
