megaxl on 28 June 2007
| ioi said: OMG I can't believe the fuss that this is causing. The game ranking system isn't mean to be an all-encompassing list of the definitive best games ever made, it is simply a way of us putting some kind of order to the quality of the games (as opposed to just ordering by sales) and is meant as a bit of a fun voting system. If the site has more Nintendo fans on it (something that certainly isn't intentional and something I'd like to change) then yeah I guess more will vote up their favourite games. If the site had more Sony fans it would have a slight sony bias and so on. Whatever kind of method I implement for the scoring this won't change any bias from the users of the site. Despite this, and recognising that the feature has only been up for a couple of weeks, I actually think that it is a pretty good list overall. MGS and Final Fantasies are up there, the classic Mario Games, Zeldas, Halos, I don't think it is a bad list at all and will only get better with more and more votes. If I limit voting to only people registered with the site then that cuts out about 85% of people who visit the site - their opinions being as valid as those who are registered and I don't want to force people to register to vote. This means there must be blocks on IP address as we can't track exactly who is voting for which game. I don't know how to encourage more Sony and Microsoft fans to use the site - if anybody has any suggestions or wants to help then let me know. I've never advertised or targetted the site towards any particular group or bias and if we had maybe a slightly more balanced community then I guess everyone would be happier with stuff like this. But as I said, I don't actually think the lists are too bad. Good games are ranked highly, bad ones lower down. You only need to have a 0.2 difference in score to move up or down a large number of places - many of the games are quite tightly grouped. I think that with a few more months of settling down and plenty more people casting votes that it will be a very representitive system. |
Yes this votes is used for fun (and for abuse of fanboys) and have to continue with his pros and cons, but aside of this ranking maybe someday you can make a all time top 100 by users (like the all time top 100 by readers of Famitsu) with one vote for users or a top 10 for user, first with 1000 or 500 games and later close to 100 games and a final vote or a final top 10 of the users in this 100 games to view the most popular game to the users, or make the elimination game official, to have all people happy.
