| ioi said:
The databases are connected - add a game / release / box art on Gamewise and it will push through. In terms of interconnecting the sites more (pulling more Gamewise stuff through to VGC, showing VGC data on Gamewise etc) - this is all being worked on. Once Gamewise is out of beta and we start promotional activity, the userbase will pass VGChartz pretty quickly - it has a huge general appeal and does what it does better than any other site. VGChartz will still feed off Gamewise and can leverage the huge amount of data it will collect - I don't see what is dumb about any of this personally... |
Apparently a recent user was struggling to add Halo 4 to his collection in the thread you guys locked and was pretty bumbed about it. It didn't have the final boxart either I'd be surprised if gamewise pushed that to vgc since it doesn't consider skus (which it should at least as a child entity or something).
Look, I understand the positives but don't flat out deny the problems.
I hate feeling like the debbie downer, but I contribute a lot here and you should be familiar with me by now I kind of say things as they are. I'm happy to see games like dishonored get attention on gamewise and all, but the small things the users here are asking for are not monstrous and I just don't understand why they are just being shrugged off. I mean if you want us to help on gamewise may as well give us a little incentive.
Imho, vgc and gamewise need to be fully integrated. Recognition there is also marked in the vgc profiles we have so that time spent there adds to our cred here. This may sound superficial but I don't really want to spend time on gamewise if it doesn't give me the badges I want here, that's because I'm a vgchartz guy, through and through. It should be possible to link profiles and work from here gets reflected there and vice versa. It can't be that hard.
But man, I'm not going to insist on it because hey, it's your site, your community. But when I consider something is kinda dumb, that's how I see it and sorry for saying it.
Look, Gamewise looks fantastic, it's cute, it's pretty, all you like. But you're probs not going to get many of us on board by cutting corners in integration of the two sites. You want us there to help, but you're not building the bridge from a community perspective. It doesn't make sense to me personally.
And put back the game collection here, removing it is dumb, now I'm just being frank.
