Idea for a better "hype" system

Murugan

If Hype is a gauge of how anticipated/followed a game is by the site's community then would it not be better to only count hypes as positive?

 

For example hyping it a 10 would increase its rating, but so would hyping it a 1.

 

Games with the least amount of hype are the games with the least amount of people anticipating them.  Or the games with people anticipating them less significantly than others.

 

Right now it is a rating system, which is ridiculous seeing as how the games aren't even out yet so people shouldn't really be reviewing them.  It has nothing to do with hype how many people already hate the game.

 

A game with 1000 positive hypes and 1000 negative hypes, is still a more anticipated game than one with 20 positive hypes and little attention from anyone else.  Isn't this common sense?

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Murugan

Originally posted by Mtibbs1989

Originally posted by Murugan

If Hype is a gauge of how anticipated/followed a game is by the site's community then would it not be better to only count hypes as positive?

 

For example hyping it a 10 would increase its rating, but so would hyping it a 1.

 

Games with the least amount of hype are the games with the least amount of people anticipating them.  Or the games with people anticipating them less significantly than others.

 

Right now it is a rating system, which is ridiculous seeing as how the games aren't even out yet so people shouldn't really be reviewing them.  It has nothing to do with hype how many people already hate the game.

 

A game with 1000 positive hypes and 1000 negative hypes, is still a more anticipated game than one with 20 positive hypes and little attention from anyone else.  Isn't this common sense?

 The issue still remains that people are able to abuse the system and just pump the hype meter to their fitting.

I don't see how that is abuse.

 

If you hype a game 10 because you are really excited about it, that is an accurate gauge of how hyped you are.  Are you talking about people making multiple accounts, because well that is a problem you can't escape no matter what (though I think they ban multiple accounts from same ISP don't they?)

 

The abuse that occurs currrently is that people go downvote all the games they are not hyped for, but this is not a representation of hype.  It is them reviewing an unreleased game.

 

A game with overwelhmingly positive hype, but only 20 people voting for it is not more "hyped" than a game with thousands of hyped people should never be ranked below a game like that.  That is more of an abuse of the system.

fyerwall

Well they could just make its so each hype would require a $1 donation per vote to something like Childs Play via MMORPG - because even if the hype meter gets abused as it does now, at least some good will come of it.

 

niceguy3978

Originally posted by fyerwall

Well they could just make its so each hype would require a $1 donation per vote to something like Childs Play via MMORPG - because even if the hype meter gets abused as it does now, at least some good will come of it.

 

I think that is a rather cool idea.  Almost everyone complains that the hype meter is useless, at least a coerced donation would make it somewhat useful.

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