Your suggestion is not bad or stupid at all. However it is not an easy task to decide a fair and useful system. Generally there are not a lot of reviews. Not even every game gets one review. A handful of games will recieve two or more reviews. Reviews are more fair and useful as a measurement since the reviewer has to write why he/she came to that conclusion. The downside is it takes time to write a good review. This may be one of the reasons why members do not write a lot.
Some time ago the thumbs system was introduced. It is an easy way of evaluating a game, but often I find it hard to decide wether to vote up or down. If the game is majorly good or bad can be hard to judge at times. Using the thumbs up system is also an easy way to punish someone you are mad at, but I do not really think it is a serious issue. I agree it is basically useless to ask if the game is good or bad when downloading. I never ever vote at that point. I wait until I have at least played the game a bit. Then I go back and vote. Possibly I could also write a review. It depends on the time I have.
Listing a game based on thumbs up system is both good and bad. The thumbs system may not always show the quality of the game. On the other hand since reviews are so rare they cannot be used as a measurement either.
Maybe the thumbs system could indeed be switched out with eg. the same point system we have for articles. That would allow for a bit more detailed fast reviewing of the games.
Maybe a mini Review?
Using the star rating we have now in the reviews themselves? The only problem was, there were alot of crap reviews before the character minimum was instituted.
The main reason I suggested this is because I want those games which really deserves it to take a place at the top 20 games. That was the main reason. The reviewing system is great, at least to my opinion.
A great game can be achieved if you but down you soul into it. A bad game will be achieved if you but down your groin into it.
It's not that hard to change the database, but Clubsoft needs the time to do it. Essentially, you'd just copy the code for the articles and convert the current thumbs up/down data with a small script.
Changing it isnt a proble, but if I change it it means all the current rankings are lost, witch is rather annoying concidering how many votes there are, be a real pain to loose so many statistics
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