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Faxanadu on 26 March 2008
Imthelegend said:
ioi said:
Bundled free games?

I think he is talking about games like Wii sports

 

 


 I think between being a bundled free game and a casual game, this game has officially ceased existence. Everyone has been playing an illusion.



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mesoteto on 26 March 2008

all games need to be counted



 

Imthelegend on 26 March 2008
mesoteto said:
all games need to be counted

 Agreed. 



 


 

DMeisterJ on 26 March 2008

Yeah, keep on counting bundles.

That's how Motorstorm's done so well.



dschumm on 26 March 2008

Sounds great. The best/most popular sites find ways t oleverage theri community talent. This is a much better/different way of expanding than being more like the traditional game sties.

One thing that I suggest, and it merely because a lot of people whine about it is the game rating systems. I think you should have to be logged int ot rate a game and it should only let you rate a game once. Then you keep track of ratings on peoples pages and on the game pages. YOu Could look at someone's total ratings and see if they skew too far one way. It would be like gamerankingg or metacritic but each person on the site would be a review source. This traceability would discourage people from giving only 1s and 10s.

Also any game not released should have it's rating locked until it is released in one territory. Now that you have moe people involved in the database this can be implimented.

Keep up the great work,



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mesoteto on 26 March 2008

but i can understand separating them some how b/c like wii play and links crossbow throwing extra stuff with the game is the reason to buy



 

NJ5 on 26 March 2008
Cryoakira said:
Are you still going to include bundled free games in sales charts ?

 

Even if ioi wanted to do something about that, I'd wager it would be a real mess. Different games are bundled in different countries at different times, the status of being bundled or not bundled can change all the time... While it would be nice to be able to track how much of a game's sales are due to bundles, it's too hard to do it for many games.

Example: Motorstorm was bundled in Europe for a long time with the 60 GB PS3 model, then that model stopped being sold. However, there are new bundles with the 40 GB PS3 model, some of which include Motorstorm.

Motorstorm is one of the games for which it would be a nightmare to track bundles properly.

This subject has been beaten to death, but hopefully what I said above can end this discussion in this thread.

 



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Faxanadu on 26 March 2008
dschumm said:
Sounds great. The best/most popular sites find ways t oleverage theri community talent. This is a much better/different way of expanding than being more like the traditional game sties.

One thing that I suggest, and it merely because a lot of people whine about it is the game rating systems. I think you should have to be logged int ot rate a game and it should only let you rate a game once. Then you keep track of ratings on peoples pages and on the game pages. YOu Could look at someone's total ratings and see if they skew too far one way. It would be like gamerankingg or metacritic but each person on the site would be a review source. This traceability would discourage people from giving only 1s and 10s.

Also any game not released should have it's rating locked until it is released in one territory. Now that you have moe people involved in the database this can be implimented.

Keep up the great work,

Sounds good but also like a lot of work.

 



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NintendoMan on 26 March 2008

Nice work ioi, you're effort is appreciated.



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Munkeh111 on 26 March 2008

Sounds good, but I still want to be able to change my password