I\u2019ve said my thoughts on the current ranking system elsewhere so no real need to re-state here, but theres something to me that\u2019s quite a bit worse that could be addressed, and this is more of a community thing really but perhaps there\u2019s some way for LD24 some \u201cencouragement\u201d could be put in place to do it.<\/p>\n
Much like LD22 I take the same issue with my comments\/feedback\u2026..my comments and feedback are 100% positive (well..99%..someone did bring up that more feedback in the HUD would have been nice \ud83d\ude00 ), nobody could really say a bad thing at all.. out of just over 100 ratings 40 of said people posted that they \u201cloved\u201d the audio and thought it was \u201creally really fun!\u201d\u2026.and that was about the extent of my feedback. (And not just my game of course, I\u2019m just using it as a easy example as it effects me the most personally, many many others I\u2019ve browsed through are the same, nothing but positive feedback and glowing praise towards the game\u2026.then a really low score)<\/p>\n
I scored a 3.07 in fun and 2.75 in audio<\/p>\n
Now\u2026whatever, those scores arent \u201cbad\u201d by any means, but they don\u2019t reflect the feedback in the least!\u00a0 if 40 people of 100 \u201cloved\u201d those\u2026.then I\u2019m looking at probably 20-30 ratings who did not like the gameplay\/audio who did not leave feedback.<\/p>\n
That sucks\u2026mostly because it\u2019s the feedback from those who didn\u2019t like the game that I care about, I want to hear why they didn\u2019t like it!\u00a0 As much as I appreciate the \u201cI love it!\u201d posts as feedback goes negative feedback is far more helpful. I don\u2019t know if people are just too \u201cpolite\u201d to post things they didn\u2019t like or if they are somehow afraid of being \u201cretaliated\u201d against and being given a bad score on their game or what, but, at least to me, I enjoy feedback good and bad\u2026It lets me know which things I tried people liked and which things i tried people didn\u2019t like so I can either explore further into an idea or avoid it in the future.\u00a0 (Especially in something like this where I made a game type I\u2019ve never done before AND tried a few twists from the \u201cnorm\u201d in it\u2019s genre)<\/p>\n
So, in saying that, I\u2019d like to re-iterate my suggestion I brought up prior to LD23 based on my experiences from LD22\u2026.we need some sort of way to allow people to attach an anonymous comment to their vote (well, the site would still know who posted it, just dont show the name) but still leave a way to leave comments in the thread like we can do now (showing our names).\u00a0 Perhaps this would allow more people who don\u2019t want to say anything bad to open up a bit and give honest feedback?<\/p>\n
Feedback has to consist of both what worked and what did not work to be effective\u2026.just my $0.02<\/p>\n
Tags: feedback<\/a><\/p>","time":"May 14th, 2012 12:30 pm","title":"Lack of useful feedback in LD23"}