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It's a bit hectic trying to find specific news articles. Good job on fixing the Publishers names in the software boxes though, that was great. Lots of graphs are missing when you click on sales history, a bit frustrating.

More PSP software would be great too =)



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TalonMan said:
arsenal009 said:
Let us search games by release date please!

 

Can't you already do that here?   http://vgchartz.com/games/releases.php

 

 

I already went over this with a few other users. What I think they really want to be able to do is search "mario" and then sort by release date. So they could see the order that all the "mario" games were released in.

I actually would like something like that too.




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retail pc sales tracking is missing.

It would bring a lot of pc gamers to the site.



FaRmLaNd said:
retail pc sales tracking is missing.

It would bring a lot of pc gamers to the site.

This will probably never be addressed, or at least not until the website becomes profitable enough to bring on extra paid staff.




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TruckOSaurus said:
I'd love to have to ability to tag some games and have the numbers for those games sent to me by mail every week.

Let's say I'm interested in sales of RE5 and Wii Fit, I'd get something like

Sales of your tracked games for week X:

- Resident Evil 5 (PS3)
WW: A shitload
Japan: Lots
America: Plenty
Others: Some
Lifetime total: Enough to make Capcom happy
- Wii Fit (Wii)
WW: Two shitloads
Japan: Not so much anymore
America: Tons
Others: Many, many, many
Lifetime total: An insane amount

I've been asking for this for over a year.

Kinda like a "My Tracked/Tagged Games" where you a message telling you the numbers with percentage drops, etc.



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"VGchartz gets alot of things right, the only thing I would like to see is the ability to edit thread titles."

Moderators will be able to edit thread titles in 2.0, if not sooner.


"Also, I would like to see the ability to change username, but to ensure its not abused it could cost VGChartz$, perhaps say $3000 to change username, something like that."

Might be possible to register an "alias" or something but all your usernames would show on your profile - not really a high priority right now. You can just make a new account and ask for your old one to be deleted right now.


"I would like to see modding overhauled though. They seem to operate on a 'one rule for you, one rule for someone else' basis, they lack consistency in otherwords. They are also unfair imo, it feels like they pursue certain members to the exclusion of others and are deliberately bias in their modding, like they have vendetta's. They're also needs to be more as their are occasions where their are no mods on site and I imagine that sometimes the workload is very heavy which leads to a decrease in quality of performance. I also think that perhaps some sort of ranking system for the mods would be good. Level 1 mods could only edit posts and send warnings while level 2 could fine/ban you and level 3 could delete accounts/ban ip's. That way mods would have to prove their responsibility and hopefully the quality of the modding would go up. Be nice as well if there was someone to mod the mods themselves."

Without specific complaints here this rant doesn't carry much weight. Naznatips is in charge of the mod staff, I'm in charge of site operations, and neither of us have heard a single specific complaint about any of our current moderators. There's already a hierarchy in place, no need to further complicate things.


"Any chance of getting e-mail notifications for new numbers? Like when any of the regions hardware and software numbers are up for a new week, an e-mail would be nice so I can jump straight to the site to check them out."

There should be an RSS feed already for these.


"Also, in the compare games tool, the ability to choose from the game database directly via combobox or something like that would be nice, rather than having to type out the titles."

That would be a very long combobox. You can just type a partial title and it should give you a list of matches to choose from.


"Another thing I would like is to be able to get a full version of the tabulated view for "Sales History" that you see on any game's page. I would like to be able to see all weeks (not just the first 10) for a game. This may be pathetic but my eyesight is very bad and I struggle to see the graphs properly. The table view is ace though."

Too much easily copyable information to give away for free there.


"Also, I do sometimes feel that this is a hostile site forums/mod wise. I have directed some of my friends to this site and they have all said the forums seem like nasty places. Just perception, but I have gotten this a lot from people I send here."

Without specific examples I can't really help there, report any rules violations you see, and if you have a problem with a mod speak to naznatips about it.


"Somebody should clean up the games database. Theres lots of doubles and wrong titles for games and such. I'd happily do it, but you know...I can't."

Report the games, that's what that button is for.



nordlead said:
TalonMan said:
arsenal009 said:
Let us search games by release date please!

 

Can't you already do that here?   http://vgchartz.com/games/releases.php

 

 

I already went over this with a few other users. What I think they really want to be able to do is search "mario" and then sort by release date. So they could see the order that all the "mario" games were released in.

I actually would like something like that too.

 

Yes, that's what i mean.  Hey nordlead, can u suggest to whoever is incharge of coding to do this?



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When they finally revamp the searching (which is on the list of things to do) maybe we can get them to do it then.




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