It's up to the admins to pick out which ones they like. I know all the games I would highly recommend have already been highly recommended. I'd also recommend a good game, if I've played it, but haven't seen many games worth recommending myself that haven't been recommended yet or actually played a "highly recommended" game, which didn't deserve to be recommended.
I won't actually recommend a game that "missed GOTW", just because it missed by a few votes. You've got to play it and see if it's worth it. A silver trophy might be nice, next time that happens, though.
I say we make Shroomlock an admin and let him recommend games
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The people who make good game could make reviews too. Why won't you people write reviews? They're worth so much more than the recommendations.
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Also up until now there were no real complaints about the system, i just had a quick peak but the games that were chosen seems perfectly in sync with popularity of what the users were thinking of the game.
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But I was right? When was the last time a current TDC admin released or even worked on a game? I don't really have anything personal against the majority of them, I just think sometimes you need an admin who's more enthusiastic about making games. You also forgot Flava and Clubsoft
LOL, I find that it adds a taste of irony to this thread that one of the admins' games is Highly Recommended. And Adam's isn't even Recommended, even though it's probably going to pwn this week's GOTW. I'm not going to do anything about it since I haven't downloaded either
I think the only problem with the system is that not all games that deserve to be recommended are recommended, though many of the games that deserve to be are.
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Nim would be an amazing admin for this site. As for getting a recommended star- comments from people are worth so much more to me, seeming as the admins don't normally even post saying why they recommended the game in the first place.
Originally Posted by Rikus i just had a quick peak but the games that were chosen seems perfectly in sync with popularity of what the users were thinking of the game.
Two of the games on the Top Downloads list are "Highly Recommended", while 5 others are not recommended at all! Meanwhile, "Highly Recommended" games are nowhere to be seen in the charts and getting some pretty mediocre reviews. What were you saying about being perfectly in sync with users' thinking?
Originally Posted by M LOL, I find that it adds a taste of irony to this thread that one of the admins' games is Highly Recommended. And Adam's isn't even Recommended, even though it's probably going to pwn this week's GOTW. I'm not going to do anything about it since I haven't downloaded either
I think the only problem with the system is that not all games that deserve to be recommended are recommended, though many of the games that deserve to be are.
This is exactly the point I'm trying to make, and I'm quoting another admin here! There's too much inconsistency and scope for favouritism for a system like this to work.
What the hell? Saying one game doesn't deserve a 'highly recommended' when another does is just as much one persons opinion as the Admins choice is. Making your argument a bit... hypocritical.
Although it's still true that it's open to bias.
and considering people see that before anything else it's probably enough to make someone download a game before they've seen the rest of the membership's opinion.
If I wanted to find a quality game on the site, I'd trust an admin recommended game over a game in the top ten. The user ratings system is good to have, but it's also pretty flakey sometimes and can depend on a number of factors like troll ratings, busy weeks, slow weeks, popularity of the game maker, etc. User rating systems will always be volatile, it's good to have an alternate system set by a more "stable" aspect of the community.
Originally Posted by AndyUK What the hell? Saying one game doesn't deserve a 'highly recommended' when another does is just as much one persons opinion as the Admins choice is. Making your argument a bit... hypocritical.
My basis for saying that certain games don't deserve to be recommended was their rating and comments, NOT my own opinion. It was in response to Rikus' post about the ratings being perfectly in sync with user opinions.
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Shroomlock's starting to get rusty.
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