More Panel Ratings Discussion

[miguel]

Well I can see your point of view and understand what you're saying.

But even if things like "fun" cannot be measured easily, it's still the opinion of a judge that counts in the end, and that takes me back to "Uncut" magazine. When criticising a song or an album you can see on the same number/month that the same album has different ratings because it was analysed by different critics.
What happens is that I got to know how they think music is or should be and so I know that if that critic says "it's not bad" than I know I should buy it because it's good to my standarts, and if another one says "Top quality release" then I know there's no point buying it because we aren't in the same "wave".

What I mean and think is that we should have something of the two worlds:
    - yes to %'s and numeric ratings translated to cups;
    - yes to a final critic by someone that does sign what he wrote;

This way someone searching the database may download a game by me with a poor critic but in the end discover that it had some nice moments and he enjoyed it.
The next game he'll download criticised by the same critic he will know that, that particular critic, is someone that values high level completed results and therefore the downloader knows it's fine for his standarts.
Eventually he'll find a huge positive critic to a game by the same person, then he'll know for sure that the game in question should be top quality.

Anyway, whatever you decide is ok to me, good games allways come to surface, maybe they need time. Look at sites like abandonia and related for an example. It was crap back then but now people want to play them.

[m0ds]

As far as I understood for the original 'Panel Rating' discussion, it was open to change after the first couple of years to hopefully implement a 'decent' system.

Yes indeed, and so all the comments in this thread are being taken into consideration by the panel. But from here on, I think everyone's had a chance to say what they want to say on the subject for now. There may be some slight changes when the new web design becomes active but I think the majority still feel the panel rating is fair and working fine. And soon, when player rating sits neatly side by side - there will be little issue. I wonder if MobyGames get the same flack for MobyScore

We can all discuss this system that most people seem to be fine with again when the next member blows their lid   There has been progress this time round so do not feel "nothing" has been achieved folks! You know who to contact if you have any problems with the panel ratings.