new rating system goals; add more casual gamers, eliminate the hardcore gamers

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#1 sunnystarz
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we "hardcore" gamers are what made the gamespot.com great today, but they just want more casual gamer who just want to see a simple score!!!
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#2 Shifty_Pete
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Uh, under that simple score there's some words. Those words explain why the game got the simple score it did. What exactly are you looking for hardcore-gamer-wise that the redesign isn't doing for you?
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#3 Magic_Shrek
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Uh, under that simple score there's some words. Those words explain why the game got the simple score it did. What exactly are you looking for hardcore-gamer-wise that the redesign isn't doing for you?Shifty_Pete

Read the forum, especially this thread:

Review Overhaul Community Contribution Thread (R.O.C.K. O.N.)

This will tell you exactly where the new review process is failing.

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#4 Skylock00
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This will tell you exactly where the new review process is failing.

Magic_Shrek

I've looked through that thread repeatedly, and I really don't see any real evidence that the new system is 'failing' as some like to claim. It isn't perfect, and there is room where things could be improved on, but the old system was, as explained by a number of people, inherently flawed/broken as a means of assigning a score to a game. It didn't work at all, and the newer system allows the editor to rate a game directly at the score it deserves, while noting particularly important aspects about the game with medals...and all while leaving the written portion of the reviews pretty much unaltered from the past.

People seem to think that the score is the basis for the reviews, when in actuality, it's the other way around, meaning that at its core, this change ultimately changes very little.