I'm late to the party, but without me... it's just aweso!!! I own a PS3 and a PC, the Wii collects dust until they bring a decent LoZ out, and I'm 30 but act like I'm 18. Looking to get in on some Re3 action tonight and see what all the hubub is all about. 

Oh, also rocking it East-side-style - so we can even have an East/West battle in-game ;) 

What time does the chat room open? I keep getting a "disconnected; session closed" error...

If this continues, I will definitely be looking at my purchases for games in a more scrutinizing manner. Reason being? If the used/re-sale market floor falls out - you are not going to be able to fetch the same going rates on these games. Therefore, I would only purchase games I know are worth the full purchase. I can honestly say in the past 3 years there are only about 5-10 games that I have held onto... so, in my mind this initiative (while making business sense) is going to hurt the gaming industry from the perspective of my cash flow to them.

I think Battlefield 3 will be a much better shooter, but only time will tell.

Gibsonsg527

I like the ideas in the OP. Especially increasing the word minimum from 100. Too many people write very simple, content-free reviews that are just barely long enough to be posted.

I;d also like to be able to rate in increments of 0.1 instead of 0.5 Could that come back?

BuryMe

Wow, there are a lot of good ideas flowing around. As the leader of one of the reviewer unions, I approve of a lot of these ideas (most of them discussed by members/top 100 and 500 reviewers too) and also see a lot of issues with others. First, the good:

1 - ADD COMMENTS PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!! I'm sick and tired of getting thumbed this way and that... without knowing why.

2 - The sorting is a superb idea. Among the things I would like to see in the sorting dropdown would be (top 100 reviewers, top 500 reviewers, most thumbed up)

3 - I like the ideas of having a little icon next to my name similar to the Mods and GS crew. I think that would be just peaches and cream/bees knees/creme de creme!!!!

And, the not so good:

1 - As for the Raptr and other linked app ideas - while it is good keep in mind that it is only current gen and PC ready. Any game that does not have that capability (Atari 1600 - PS2/Xbox) it really does not have quite the same impact as it would for the current gen, and it could potentially create some big issues. Also, Raptr doesn't auto track all games that it supports the achievements for. I know the PS3 is not a real-time feed like it is for the 360, and sometimes it doesn't work for all PC games either (has been hit/miss with my SCII account). I feel the pain of @DaavPuke on this matter - so while it COULD be a good feature for supported games, do not make it a necessity.

2 - To "track" or own the game in order to review doesn't necessarily apply. For example, what if the user borrows the game via GameFly... or one day trades it in? This is all part of the process of "building" your game library. I do this in order to keep economics in check and can see that my "collection" as it exists now is in no sense a reflection of the games I have played over the past 20 years.

There are my thoughts on the matter. Thanks to Jody for the thread and continuous improvement and community, and thanks to the members of the GRU for sounding in, you make me proud!!!

Also, anyone interested in getting some feedback and critiques as a reviewer make sure to check out our union here!!! Always accepting applications!!!

That is all I can ask for... and Rag's contributions in the form of visuals have more than piqued me. I'll be adding this to my amazon.com wishlist for the holiday slated release. It looks 10x better than the previous versions (maybe an overstatement)... and I was never able to find ICO, so you are right; everyone wins in some form or another by Team ICO's hands :)