Sorting games by rating

Started by Quitch, Sun 13/01/2008 00:15:51

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Quitch

Sun 13/01/2008 00:15:51
AGS has a voting system and requests that you come back and vote, yet I cannot see a way to sort any of the categories by rating. Surely that defeats the point of the rating system and makes downloads more likely to be driven by awards and whether the title starts with an A?

Have I missed a sort somewhere?

Radiant

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Sun 13/01/2008 00:37:46
Nope. The problem is that the current ratings are highly arbitrary.

Another problem is that if ratings were to become more important than they're now, that'd be an extra incentive for people to artificially boost their ratings, the way some people do with download counts.

Quitch

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Sun 13/01/2008 11:49:46
But isn't the incentive currently to ensure you name your game Acme so that you're on the first two pages i.e. the ones which I bet are highly more likely to score downloads.

If the rating system isn't considered to be worth a damn, why have it? Why encourage people to come back and rate games?

Radiant

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Sun 13/01/2008 12:18:12
Quote from: Quitch on Sun 13/01/2008 11:49:46
But isn't the incentive currently to ensure you name your game Acme so that you're on the first two pages i.e. the ones which I bet are highly more likely to score downloads.
Actual download ratings, and the rather low amount of games starting with a number ("1111" sorts before "acme") suggest otherwise.

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If the rating system isn't considered to be worth a damn, why have it?
That's a false dichotomy; there is a difference between "too arbitrary to be a meaningful sort ordering"  and "not worth a damn". But as a matter of fact, a better rating system is being worked on.

SSH

#4
Sun 13/01/2008 15:10:38
Can we put this in the FAQ?
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Radiant

#5
Sun 13/01/2008 15:19:21
We have a FAQ?   :o
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