I generally get the first news about a game on the forums here.... if I want to search for media I generally use google, but have used the games section of this site sometimes if I am searching for an exact game (for example google will bring up loads of pics of Killzone 2 if I search for Killzone 3, but if I want it to be specific to K3 i'll come here first, before moving back to google to try a better search, if still not successful maybe onto IGN)
Most cases though I tend not to search for media as it comes to the forums.
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I would guess you don't want this here, but hopefully the new features will include:
- the ability to post the plus symbol (lets see if it works here: )
- the ability to at minimum use the return key in a PM, hopefully though to PM in rich text... and the ability to return in wall posts.
- If the rich text editor can't/doesn't load... surely there must be a way to load a clear text box or something for posting in forums (a la the quick reply in the old forum) that way people can post from phones or other small browsers.
- The current graphs looks really nice, and will naturally be applied to hardware sales too... the pin mode feature however is pointless without being able to view weekly sales (rather than cumulative) my guess is this will be re-implemented anyway... but just in case.... also being able to view say 5 platforms at once would be neat (though having the old 3 platforms back will be good enough)
- I would guess more options for the chartz will be a premium feature, but I would sure like the ability to view sales by month again, and by quarter would be neat as well.
- being able to order games in our games section, and in the game database view who else has the game again.
- the ability to use colour.
I'm sure there are more, I come across things every so often but always forget to write them down or something.... and no doubt many or all of these things are being discussed. Personally I don't understand the limiting of the colour for text on the forumswhich seems to be some kind of intentional decision... yet those who abused the privelege before (always posting in a specific colour for example) are still able to if they wish by copying from Word or editing the html. Being able to colour things is a useful visual aide, particularly for statistics (this site being about sales after all) And i've been complaining about the glitchy table function in the RTE on this site since the beginning, and it has become worse and worse in the past few years I think i'd best stop complaining.
Oh and something I tend to come across way too much on the web... very un-user-friendly navigation/link buttons. If something looks like a button you should be able to click on the whole thing, not just the text in the middle, yet on the text editor light box thing I am typing in now, clicking the "reply" or "done" button, as well as on the user links for their Wall/Games/Messages etc sections I am constantly having to make sure I click on the text.
Edit - ok, oddly I didn't have to do so on the "Done" button for editing, but I am sure I had to for "Reply"... so i'll check back after my next new post and see if I was wrong/it's been fixed/maybe some problem with my browser/machine/finger.
Edit2 - no the problem is still there, but you can click on the lower portion of the button... essentially I can click on where it says "Done" as well as a full button width box that sits below "Done" but not any of the other space.
