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| 20 Jan 2013 09:12 AM |
If you're old enough to appreciate quality games, you must know that the front page usually is not where you find them. You have to dig through pages of specific genres, through others' favorites, or through forums. This is a major flaw.
Most of the people who make it to the front page of the "Popular" tab are the ones who tailor their games SPECIFICALLY towards the very large portion of our community which is children. They use combinations of free models (sometimes even sprinkling basic scripting on top), to arrange a quick money-making game with the MINIMUM amount of effort possible. They'll often keep their games updated with more free models, slightly altered versions of what they already have, and completely unrelated thumbnails.
The "Relevance" tab is a joke. It just slightly rearranges the "Most Popular" games.
The "Most Favorited" tab is a little better, except the games are often old or they're just the ones from creators who have managed to stay front page for a long time.
The "Featured" tab is just a collection of the ROBLOX staff's pet games and favorites.
Here are some examples of front page games right now: ========= Temple Run 2 [2441 Players] -A little bit of terrain, a walkspeed changing brick, and a stolen icon thumbnail.
FASTEST WaterSlide Tycoon [1630 Players] -I joined to find a sword tycoon. The minecraft thumbnail and game title were completely false advertising.
Base Wars: The Land [1465 Players] -While this game undoubtedly took some work, it is low quality, horribly unbalanced, and non-uniform. I also suspect significant free model usage.
Build to survive evil monsters [1395 Players] -Stamper tool and some free model monsters
Toilet Jump [1167 Players] -Seriously?
Be a Parent,Kid,or Pet [1051 Players] -Loads of free models, morphs, and decals. ========= Those are games just from the front page. There is plenty more crap on the second page including, Rainbow Plane survival, 2 games the say "Do NOT Play" (reverse psychology much?), and another "Who killed" obby.
I propose a new tab entitled "Best Quality." The games in this tab would be rated by the 13+ users who play them (playing would be required). There would be a thumbs up or thumbs down and games with the highest percentage would be at the front. A game would have to have at least 100 ratings to be considered, and you would not be able to rate more than once. There is a potential issue with owners of big groups to shout about a mass thumbs up fest, but I think those games would eventually be weeded out if low quality. There are probably other better solutions too.
It would also be good if the players had to play for a certain amount of time before they were able to give a thumbs up. Rating would obviously be optional.
!!!!!!!!!! TL;DR: "Best Quality" games tab containing games rated by 13+ players.
Please post your support, additions, or criticisms of this idea. |
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Ronster55
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| 20 Jan 2013 09:14 AM |
"Toilet Jump [1167 Players]" This is one of the few times I literally rofl'ed. Oh the irony.
Support though. Lol.
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| 20 Jan 2013 02:34 PM |
Support.
~༄ When Knife makes orange juice, from one or more oranges, DRINK IT!༄~ |
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| 20 Jan 2013 02:37 PM |
| Couldn't agree more. A moderator actually said they were looking into something like this. |
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| 20 Jan 2013 02:42 PM |
| Full Support, I hate seeing games like that, although base wars is actually pretty fun and has been updated a lot |
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| 20 Jan 2013 03:03 PM |
Support...
~Troll logic is logical logic. |
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| 20 Jan 2013 10:30 PM |
Thanks for the support.
Secret bump. |
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| 20 Jan 2013 11:10 PM |
Not a bad idea, Support! ~ The Official Support Giver of S&I ~ |
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| 21 Jan 2013 12:25 AM |
| Problem is, I see a lot of some of the more lacking taste or just immature 13+ players picking those games. |
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| 21 Jan 2013 02:59 AM |
"Toilet Jump [1167 Players] This is one of the few times I literally rofl'ed. Oh the irony."
lolwut I rofl'ed as well.
I support. |
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| 21 Jan 2013 10:19 AM |
| Qwerty, That's true, but hopefully most of those will just be outliers. This would certainly be better than letting the hordes of under 13 players decide which games make front page. |
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zigza19
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| 21 Jan 2013 10:30 AM |
| Basically. Your Favorite tab :) |
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Trioxide
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zigza19
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| 24 Jan 2013 11:33 AM |
| Well, Best Quality is based on your Opinion. Which is why there's a Faveroute' Tab... |
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| 24 Jan 2013 02:20 PM |
| Zigza, How fun or enjoyable a game is is based on opinion. Quality is not. Quality is based on the time, effort, and skill spent on the place. If a 5 year old says a disgusting obby is quality, its not because it is to THEM, its because they don't know what quality is. |
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| 24 Jan 2013 02:22 PM |
Already suggested this. Bump this thread:
http://www.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=86273386 |
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| 24 Jan 2013 02:28 PM |
No, this isn't the same Destroyer. Maybe the same basic idea but much different in execution.
Admins often have a different viewpoint than the players. Your idea is kind of like having the President pick what kind of cartoons are allowed to show on TV.
There is already a Featured games tab anyway. Those are handpicked by admins.
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| 24 Jan 2013 02:30 PM |
@fire The featured tab barely has anything on it. |
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| 24 Jan 2013 02:36 PM |
Games would need to be selected by an admin for a Best Quality games tab. I don't understand the difference. The same games would be put there, whether it be a Developers tab or a Best Quality tab.
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| 24 Jan 2013 03:35 PM |
| Why don't you read a bit more than the title? |
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| 24 Jan 2013 03:37 PM |
Define Best Quality. Support.
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| 24 Jan 2013 03:44 PM |
The Best Quality games would be games that the mature members of the community could enjoy. These games will generally be the ones in which the creator(s) spent a significant amount of time and effort creating. Hopefully the 13+ users will be able to recognize creativity and professionalism, as well as originality with their content.
I'm sick of free model places easily getting in the top pages cause children don't know better. |
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