So... What's the plan for VGC going forward?

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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