Rating systems for game projects

[ShinGamix]

I was wondering if a rating of how good a game project, project feedback, project demo, early demo, completed game might be a good idea. I would like to see on the topic list of good te game project is rated. Just an idea.

 

[Kes]

Speaking purely personally, I think this would be a complete nightmare.

Who is to decide what factors should be taken into account?

Who decides what weight to give to each individual factor?

Who decides what constitutes excellent, very good, good, average, mediocre, poor, bad, awful in each of those individual factors?

Who has the time to set this up?

Who has the time, motivation and impartiality to keep it going?

etc

etc

etc

 

[sabao]

One has to take into account that each person's taste and preference of games is different. A lot of criteria for quality are subjective-- one thing may be great for one person and complete garbage to the other. To have a small group of people provide 'official' ratings not only seems conceited on the rating body's part (because, really, what distinguishes their taste from every other member giving their two cents?), but is also a huge disservice to the developer.

 

[cabfe]

I'll also add that not having a list is actually a good thing, in my opinion.

This makes people search by themselves and find/play games they wouldn't have heard about otherwise.

Lists of good games just make them played more and put in the shade the others, worthy of being played nonetheless.

 

[ShinGamix]

Maybe a staff rating?

 

[Shaz]

You assume staff aren't busy enough already and have the time (and desire) to play every game posted.

 

[Vox Novus]

Isn't that sort of what the rate topic thing is for? If your topic is a game project it is essentially rating your game. Granted I don't think there is a way to sort by topic rating.

 

[Tsukihime]

Isn't that sort of what the rate topic thing is for? If your topic is a game project it is essentially rating your game. Granted I don't think there is a way to sort by topic rating.

It doesn't really give any information to the developer, or anyone else reading the topic, what the rating means.


If someone gets 5 stars, does that mean they have a model example of what a game should look like?

 

[Vox Novus]

Yeah your right, but the OP didn't specify they wanted feedback about the game in any way just a rating. Its for rating a topic and if your topic is a game then presumably one would conclude that a game topic that has 5 stars would be a good game (Of course this is also relative to the amount of people that have actually rated the topic).

 

[Bex]

The Options for Reviews like in Steam would be cool, but with 1 to 10 Stars insteed of the thumbs.

And the Stars should not be averaged counted. Just showNumber of Reviews and how many voted which star value (1to10)

Than people would need to make a review for having chance to Vote, and the rules would forbit 2sentence reviews or offenses.

Sounds like a good Ideas, imagine having 200 or 2000 Games in the Database, such System would definitly Help.

Plus an extra search Section for New released Games, or lately most reviewed , or most stars , different search filters.