LOCKEZ'S PROFILE

author=Kaempfer
What? If you start to watch a video and then close it 5 seconds in, the video gets another view. The thumbs are a much better indicator of how good a video is. I rarely come across a video that has an overwhelming majority of thumbs ups that is bad and likewise, one with many thumbs downs that is good.

Conversely, I come across videos with LOTS of views frequently that are just awful. Pageviews mean nothing if people walk away thinking your game is some shitty vapourware trainwreck they'll never play.

This is both true and false. You might not like the video, but the person who linked you to it liked it enough to link you to it. In the end, though neither method is perfect, both are good information to have. Information doesn't have to be perfect to be good information to have, which was my point.

But I think we do list number of downloads for games... sometimes. Not always for files hosted off-site though, which is a shame. But game downloads is basically the equivalent of youtube video views. Page hits could just be people talking about the game in posts - though I guess if someone goes back to a game page to talk about it, that is probably almost as good an indicator that the game is interesting/noteworthy as an extra download, if not moreso.

author=VampireZer0
Not to complain, or sound off track...but I just had a thought...What does this have to do with Game Development and Discussion?

Nothing whatsoever, this technically should have been in Site Feedback or something, but Game Discussion gets used as General Discussion a lot for whatever reason, so deal with it. I think the OP admitted this earlier in the thread.

The good reviews mean nothing when someone can tell their friends to register on RMN and write up a paragraph and a 5-star review and give them bullet points of things to mention. It trivializes reviews and makes the score meaningless (well, even more meaningless than it is now).

No, uh, that makes it less meaningless. They can already do that. They're FAR MORE LIKELY to do that than a normal person is to write a real review, because they're invested enough in the success of the game to write half a page, but a random player is far less invested in the success of the game and will only expend minimal effort in his attempt to make his opinion of the game known.

As kind of a parallel, consider: How often do you vote thumbs up or down on youtube videos? How often do you submit one-line comments? How often do you submit comments in excess of 300 words?

If one youtube video has 150 votes up and 800 votes down, and another one has 800 votes up and 150 votes down, do you think those ratings are worthless? Meaningless? Too easy to rig? Or do you think that they make it likely that the second video is, not definitely, but probably somewhat better?

I have never smoked or done any kind of recreational drugs.

I drank for the first time when I was... 24? I drink extremely rarely, never nearly enough to get drunk, never enough to really have any sort of noticable effect at all. Sometimes online I pretend to be drunk though if I realize I'm being retarded.

author=crunkbanker
Actually I am a "she" but that's ok. ; ) I don't know why, but online, I am commonly mistaken for a "he". o.O Perhaps it's my writing style? Not sure. =P

It is the name. Change your name to CrunkBankerette. And change your profile pic to this:

Well, you could change the teleport script in the RGSS to always work like that.

But in RM2K3 yeah you're screwed