GBAtemp's Member Review Competition

Nice, I might write a review for Tenchu.

 

too much trouble for only winning a flash cart but its nice.....

I dont bother too take this challenge i just buy it when i need a cart

 

sounds like a great system....but how many reviews for a single game will be accepted? Survivial of the fittest? This is something I'd be interested in though, great idea

currently though, sobriety /= me haha, anyways I will participate for sure!

 

maybe is late, but I suggest: if you(gbatemp.net) can for example make a list of HW/soft where members would take some... or you can allow 3 reviews(members) per HW/soft

Only because of variety.

 

Awesome competition! I'm entering for sure.

 

Unfortunately, I am absolutely horrible at writing anything that someone is going to be reading later on, so I will do everyone a favor and not participate. But to eveyone who IS going to go all in, do NOT review Barbie Rides Again!!

 

I also think there should be a limit as to ho many reviews one member may submit. Otherwise some one will end up doing like 100 reviews or so lol.

 

Can retro game reviews count?

 

i just submitted one, nut it didn't show up in the forum.

i can find it by searching, but the link seems dead :\

is this normal for now, or should i resubmit it?

 

It's there, it just needs to be approved first.

 

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.

 

The only problem I see is that someone who doesn't have the time to write a dozen or more reviews (like me ) might be discouraged from writing any at all. A random draw based on each review being like a number in the pot might be better, as it still rewards those who write more by increasing their chances, but gives at least some chance to others with less spare time. Also, to emphasize quality you could make 5 star reviews worth 2 numbers in the pot.

 

I second this question

I also agree with lastdual. Maybe you could have one prize for overall points and one prize from a drawing. I know I would be more inclined to write a good review or two if I knew I had a chance in a drawing. Otherwise, there will be a few people who will write enough reviews that I know I won't have a chance pointwise. In that case, the incentive is gone and I probably won't bother.

 

Well, it won't hurt to try I guess!

 

If you look at it from the point of view of a contest then yes, that's the biggest loophole; people entering the contest with the aim to win will be put off.

However if the aim of this whole thing is, as I suspect, to increase the amount of user
reviews submitted to the site by using an incentive to spark interest then it's going to work exactly as the moderators plan. (I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I just wish people would say what they actually mean rather than wrapping it up to look like something else, in this case a contest )