GBAtemp's Member Review Competition

Freezard · Aug 21, 2006

Wow, now my internal reviews of all the GBA games I've played that I wrote for fun after each completion will come in handy (god that's a lot, too). xD

Anyway about the nationality "penalty", OF COURSE you should consider the language and grammar etc used by a native English talking person into the score, and not really compare it too much with non-English persons. If it will be like some English/American guys here says (no disadvantage of being native English), then I won't bother competing because I don't want to be raped by them just because they were born in the "right" country.

(Btw, won't matter which flag you'll use because they have the IP:s to track)

And yes I agree with previous poster that this is a "false" way of sending out a message, but I think prizes is what's needed anyway to motivate people to write reviews... after all we don't have so much free time and not many would put down work on reviews on this particular expensive time.

Harsky · Aug 21, 2006

A question would be, will anyone actually have soooo much time on their hands to actually submit 100 reviews?

Freezard · Aug 21, 2006

Steal them? :\

ShadowXP · Aug 21, 2006

QUOTE(Freezard @ Aug 21 2006 said:
Steal them? :\

That's just retarded and won't get you anywhere. It's also cheating.

Thinking about it now it seems unfair that you can submit more than one review, since it's obvious whoever submits the most reviews wins.

Youkai · Aug 21, 2006

QUOTE(ShadowXP @ Aug 21 2006 said:
QUOTE(Freezard @ Aug 21 2006 said:

Steal them? :\

That's just retarded and won't get you anywhere. It's also cheating.

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But for foreigners its very easy to get reviews of games from game magazines or whatever and just translate them ... i don't think that anyone will notice ... i hope for all who practicipate that noone is evil enough to do so

wabo · Aug 21, 2006

QUOTE(Youkai @ Aug 21 2006 said:
But for foreigners its very easy to get reviews of games from game magazines or whatever and just translate them ... i don't think that anyone will notice ... i hope for all who practicipate that noone is evil enough to do so

hehe, i bet no one thought of it before you pointed it out.

Lily · Aug 21, 2006

All the time spent complaining could be spent towards a review..

ACaed · Aug 21, 2006

I agree, Q. That's why I just wrote up a review.

jumpman17 · Aug 21, 2006

i just realized why the gbatemp logo looked familiar on the contest picture, lol.

Alright everyone, start typing and get those fingers working and aim for a quality review.

Harsky · Aug 22, 2006

It's been a while since I submitted a review but when I finished the first draft of a game review just now, I accidently hit "post" instead of preview. Anyways, I thought the first draft was okayish but what do I do if it happens again?

dice · Aug 22, 2006

what an idea! not only are you using us but one of us will get a prize!!!

I've got 3 games in mind that I'm playing which I may review.

Opium · Aug 22, 2006

QUOTE(cruddybuddy @ Aug 22 2006 said:
A couple of questions for the powers that be:

1 - Will reviews with poor grammar be forgiven based on someone's nationality, meaning they may gain and extra point when their reviews are spelled incorrectly? If that is the case, then I will register a new username with the flag of Ethiopia. I know it may not seem fair that a person who does not speak native English doesn't have an equal opportunity, but that is life. There are pleanty of contests in Japan that I am unable to enter because I do not speak the language. Well, I suppose this was more of a comment than a question, but I think giving people a handicap is asking for a lot of trouble.

2 - Is the point scale 1-5 or 0-5? I know you mentioned someone with 100 crappy reviews not winning, but that would imply an ability on the part of the staff to choose one contestant over another based on factors outside of the designated rules.

Any further clarification on these points would be very much appreciated.

1. People of non-english backgrounds wont be given more points, they just might not lose that extra point for their spelling. Basically if everyone runs a spell checker over their review and whatnot there shouldn't be much of a problem

2. 0-5, if you post 10 reviews of a few words each we know you're just trying the thwart the system

cruddybuddy · Aug 22, 2006

Will we know what we scored on each entry before the end of the contest? Or for all we know we scored 1 point each?

Opium · Aug 22, 2006

As I said in the first post:

"- These points are only noted by staff and not available to be viewed or disputed by members"

*edit*

Also updated one of the rules about posting reviews. Sorry it was left out of the original post. The staff discussed this and decided it is best that the reviews be written specifically for gbatemp, rather than just post something you've already published elsewhere. And yes we do check for this.

KillerMiller · Aug 22, 2006

I dont like the system, because some Maniac will write 30+ reviews and thats it, even if he get not 5 points for every review he has enough points probably.

How is this:

Everyone has to write 3-5 reviews and the one how has the most points win, there could be a draw, but that can happen now, too!

Or at least make a limit like 10 for the reviews.

memyselfandi · Aug 22, 2006

i dont know what to write about...

Chouonsoku · Aug 22, 2006

I'll write a review or two but it really doesn't seem fair that you can write as many reviews as you want. =/ Even if they are quality reviews, it's not fair to those that don't have time to write all of them.

ROMz · Aug 23, 2006

less bitching more writing

Harsky · Aug 23, 2006

Wrote 2 so far. It's actually hard to find a way to START the review.

Extreme Coder · Aug 23, 2006

I really think you should have a limit of reviews, most probably 5 or so.

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