vedder (70812) on 5/27/2010 8:13 AM · Permalink · Report

Particularly high on my list are expanded search functionality and more platforms.

Sicarius (61518) on 5/27/2010 9:52 AM · Permalink · Report

A more comfortable credits-wizard, five points in particular:

• A feature like the game-wizard has where he tells me if someone (and perhaps even who) is already working on credits for this game.
• I would like to be able to see for which company and under what classification a developer was entered last during the add-phase without having to update the side and hoping I've selected the right one or deactivating JavaScript. Best would be a tooltip.
• A Drag & Drop-Feature both for new and existing credits allowing for easier regrouping of credits perhaps even during the add-phase before going to the order-tab.
• It would be nice for the classification-wizard to be a bit more intelligent meaning he pre-selects a classification based on a) the name of the job and b) based on what already existing devs where assigned to last time. Of course always with the option to change everything manually.

I honestly forgot the fifth point while writing these - perhaps I'll remember it later.

GAMEBOY COLOR! (1990) on 5/27/2010 12:21 PM · Permalink · Report

[Q --start BurningStickMan wrote--] -A new interface? Not too flashy, but a modern update might be nice. [/Q --end BurningStickMan wrote--]

Even I have to admitt, Moby is starting to look old. I didn't say that last time that topic was brought up, but it's been a while, and the site is starting to look dated. There are too many < div > on each page. It's works as far as functionality (And speed.), but looks too 2003-ish. It would be nice to have some graphic CSS or Javascript pull down menus for the stuff that's on the side of each page now. I would avoid heavy graphics though because it slows everything to a crawl. (IGN, Gamespot anyone ?) The layout of the game browser page could use some tweaking too. For example, the "250 most popular games", it seems like most of them are from 2003-2004 era. I think it's time to update that. The user accounts are laid out fine, but could use some more graphics. Just too mush plain HTML. Can't think of anything else right now, but I think what I mentioned is a good place to start.

Unicorn Lynx (181775) on 5/28/2010 4:06 AM · Permalink · Report

Sicarius (61518) on 5/28/2010 6:25 AM · Permalink · Report

A better Release-info-wizard which allows me to open up additional fields to enter more than one company (besides publisher and developer) at once without needing to update the page first.

Starbuck the Third (22606) on 5/28/2010 4:23 PM · Permalink · Report

You know when you go to add ratings? wouldn't mind it if you could tell 1) what ratings are already contributed and 2) when they've been approved, if your ones wasn't contributed.

Also, you know other forums that list what members are currently logged on. Wouldn't mind seeing that here. No particular reason, just curiosity really.

Also, a visual update would be nice.

Adzuken (836) on 5/29/2010 12:21 AM · Permalink · Report

This is a very small suggestion, but we have a section for Xbox Live Gamer Tags in member profiles, but none for Playstation Network ID or Steam ID. The Playstation Network omission seems especially strange to me.

Parf (7873) on 5/31/2010 9:03 AM · Permalink · Report

When you type out or approve moby ranks it'd be nice if you could have a clickable link with some info about the different magazines/sites listed here. As it is now, they are just names on a list, with no info whatsoever about any of them.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 5/31/2010 11:32 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

3D-Glasses for PS3 and Xbox 360: G-Force (plattforms in question not yet approved)

Rola (8483) on 6/1/2010 10:11 AM · Permalink · Report

Bah! Don't get me started on this... besides, those changes are so big I don't expect them to happen even in 5 years time... or perhaps?

• updated interface for the forum... I'm NOT going to type html tags out of my memory, thnx

• a rehash of the database regarding game groups, compilations and special editions. Game groups would be only used for shared themes (like "games with zombies"), other uses like game series would be done by linking titles and flagging them (separate flags for special edition etc.). One thing that could be done first is color coding - make the compilations stand out. Or add a checkbox allowing to hide them (like stuff in search results). "Ideal" solution would look something like this: (with the ability to filter the search results, say, to "series" level, thus skipping all unofficial and compilation stuff)

Luis Silva (13443) on 6/3/2010 9:53 AM · Permalink · Report

Some of the stuff I remember asking for, or just thought of:

A rehash of the website. Not just a new theme, but keep the database and change everything else. Making it more horizontal, less cluttered would be nice. Also necessary for some of the following.

Better queries for mobyscore. Making it possible to find out which NES game released on 1988 is believed to have better graphics, or the 2001 PC game most liked (ie, personal slant). Know that was the score a user has given to a game by looking at the collection, and the deviation from the norm (IGN had this, I think). Could be a bit heavy on the database.

A mobile website (with minimal info and graphics) would be nice.

Better game management. Make special editions (and the like) subpages from the original game.

Also, create a new system to categorize game series, with sortable columns for release date and order in the game universe history. Stricly for games who belong in the same universe and series.

Since approval takes so long, I'd suggest a "open" system (like rateyourmusic). Allow users to contribute and show material immediately, but mark unreviewed material as such, and allow users to flag wrong material for faster review.

Speaking of reviews, short form reviews. Maximum of 300 characters. Many times I wanted to write a review for a game, but couldn't find enough to write the whole "good/bad/bottom line".

Tagging. Sure, it's a bit 2006, but the site seems to sit proudly in 2002 anyway.

Sort out the genres. While many games these days qualify as "adventure" in the Indiana Jones (the films, not the games) - like GoW or Uncharted - they're not the same "adventures" as Indiana Jones (the games). Guitar Hero/Rock Band/Cowbell Hero should have their own "music" genre. GTA is a "Sandbox", not a driving game. The current genre selection made sense 10 years ago, now, not so much, because terms change, and genres (such as music and sandbox) emerge.

There.

Starbuck the Third (22606) on 6/5/2010 1:43 PM · Permalink · Report

Another idea, when going to submit release info, show a list of what countries release dates are currently pending, like with product codes. This will save contributors seeing the info they contributed rejected with a message 'already on file', and approvers going over the same info twice.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 6/21/2010 7:08 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

• The possibility to change the role title without having to delete it first.


• A checkbox to to delete all names associated to a role. Now you have to click every single name.


• Fixing the bug that you have to click "update" twice to affect the credits order


• Less slowdown with big credits listings


• The possibility to create a new developer even if someone with the same name is already on file


• The possibility to associate an alternate name for a developer directly through the credits wizard without having to ask the approver.

Havoc Crow (29859) on 6/28/2010 5:58 PM · Permalink · Report

I want someone to fix the "Most Wanted" bug which has plagued us since at least 2006.

Starbuck the Third (22606) on 7/1/2010 8:51 PM · Permalink · Report

Whilst recently adding PS2 tech specs, i noticed that a couple of specs were not present, namely 'analogue controller: sticks only' and 'analogue controller: all buttons'.

Considering there are a few games out there that have these, i think they should be added.

Sicarius (61518) on 7/20/2010 7:59 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

In the spirit of the new way things hopefully will get done. A few brainstorming ideas that I don't think have been mentioned here, yet:

Game Groups:

• The ability for contributors to submit game groups (including already selecting the games which are part of it) | this could create more work than it's worth.
  
• The ability to add a game to a group during the submission (only approvers can do that right now AFAIK).

Contribute page inside the game wizard:

• Add an option to directly add MobyRanks without the need to go to the partial main summary and do it from there

Game Wizard:

• Description on the "Ratings"-tab defining when to use "personal slant" only and a basic description of what this page does anyway
  
• The ability to access the original cover art on the "Cover Art"-tab. It works for screenshots - so why not for cover art?

Tech Specs:

• The ability to suggest additional/new tech-specs for a platform (which can only be approved by an admin of course) | this could also create more work than it's worth.

Hardware

• Pages with information about consoles and hardware and stuff. You know that page there for the PS2...

Credits:

• The ability to make a correction like a false group name or a typo in a devname and such in already approved credits through the normal approval system without the need of an admin to go in and fix it manually.

Release Info:

• The ability to add/remove additional companies to existing release information through the normal approval system without the need of an admin to go in and fix it manually.

So that's all from the top of my head. The whole Credit Wizard thing I already mentioned a few posts above. Surely I'll find more.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 7/20/2010 8:20 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

Under his thread branch I want to collect all small and big changes needed for subpages (just text, no functionality).

Classifying Credits
This page was compiled eight years ago or something. It is horribly outdated and little use for new contributors. Needs a complete rewrite to match the classifications we currently use.

Game Credits start page
"We recommend that you use Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher or Netscape 6.0 or higher.
The most famous one. While the statement itself is true it should be adjusted so it doesn't look like it was written eight years ago.

That's all I can think of right now. Please add more! I'll add your suggestions to this post so we have a handy list for future "change of the week" discussions.

Sicarius (61518) on 7/20/2010 8:25 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

More:

Developer page:

• Ability to submit alternate names (similar to companies)
  
• Ability to send in a name correction which an approver can look over without an admin needing to manually changing it

You may have noticed a basic theme already: The whole "Corrections" thing in my opinion has to be completely reworked. Instead there should be as many options as possible for the contributor to get things into the normal approval queue where a normal approver can look it over and just approve it without any admin needing to be involved for manual labor.

Game Wizard - Description page:

• Ability for a preview (including the spell check) similar to here in the forum. Always loading the overview to check if something is spelled right sucks as this page takes a while to load.
  
• Ability to directly replace a wrongly spelled word with a suggestion from the spell checker
  
• A WYSIWYG-editor or at least formating buttons, eliminating the need to manually write out HTML-code and mobytags. This of course goes for all pages including here in the forum or in the rapsheet. But Game Wizard is where it would be needed most.

Game Wizard - Entry exists:

• If not approved yet: See the current status of that existing entry
  
• If not approved yet: Show the name of the user who is already working on the entry.
  
• If approved, show the oldest release year of the already existing together with the platforms to make it easier to distinguish between games of the same name.

Crawly (1417) on 7/20/2010 6:12 PM · Permalink · Report

My suggestions:

• Some sort of implementation of "special editions" in the regular game entries. The current amount of additional entries clutters the database and makes the website less useful for regular visitors in my opinion.

• Better right-to-left languages support - Currently, submitting content in such languages is somewhat difficult. The punctuation mark at the end of a sentence moves to the beginning, the order messes up when English characters are used somewhere in the sentence.

• High resolution covers, perhaps with the ability to hide the MobyGames tag if above a certain amount of points.

Lain Crowley (6629) on 7/21/2010 4:40 AM · Permalink · Report

As a small improvement to Credits, having an alternative to the wizard where a contributor can confirm that the credits already on file for one system's release can also be used for another system's release.

beetle120 (2415) on 7/21/2010 7:06 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

-edit- deleted

Sicarius (61518) on 7/21/2010 9:59 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

Just a few:

Moby Tips:

• 67 - The survey doesn't even exist anymore. Either remove it or renew it.
  

• 76 - I don't think anyone is allowed to leave out the dev or publisher anymore. So perhaps remove it?
  

• 44 - I see no word "Browse" on the main page. If it refers to the "Game Browser" it still isn't accurate as you can't see the total number of games in the database there. Perhaps just change it so that it points to the Database Stats on the left?
  

• 7 "The short list of companies and genres on MobyGames' main page are the ten most common of their kind in our database." - Don't remember ever seeing that :). - Remove?
  

• 72 "Do you still have the receipt with the box? Most stores print a date of purchase on the receipt, so you could check through some of your older games and fill in some more accurate release dates for lesser-known titles." - I don't think anyone would approve that would they?
  

• 47 - Wouldn't it be easier to point the user to the game-page and tell him to hit "contribute" instead of that complicated method using the "game entry exists" page?
  

• 57 - by now the first 200 entries are some of the most complete entries here so we could remove that tip now in my opinion.
  

• 15- The link is dead. I guess the new one is http://www.mobygames.com/info/faq6#f8
  

• 22 - Should be reworded. At the moment it sounds like we just recently began accepting shareware and freeware games. Perhaps just write "commercial games -- we also document shareware and freeware games".
  

Of course we should also think of new tipps but that's for later :).

MZ per X (3017) on 7/21/2010 10:56 AM · Permalink · Report

Screen shots should be group-able similar to what we do in credits. This feature should come with a new standard for the grouping, like

Title screen(s) / Intro
Menus/Options
Early game
Mid game
End game
Extro

If we'd have this, we could even hide the last three groups per default, for people afraid of spoilers.

MZ per X (3017) on 7/21/2010 8:42 PM · Permalink · Report

May I direct the approver / admin attention to an adjustment of the beta policy again?

This would make a perfect candidate for a weekly accomplishment, no coding needed here. :o)

Indra was here (20755) on 7/24/2010 9:50 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

Personal quick wish list, though many have already been mentioned, for good reason.

Efficiency & User Friendly Fixes

Starbuck the Third (22606) on 7/29/2010 6:05 PM · Permalink · Report

A couple of tech spec requests:

• I know processor type is already an option, but i would also like to have processor speed to be listed as well.
• Some where other than the comments box for the HDD needed to install a game(PC and modern consoles) and to save a game (any console with a game save ability)

To me, them not being already included is something of a glaring omission.

Tracy Poff (2094) on 8/8/2010 3:56 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

A few things I've been thinking about:

1. Our game pages could use a little redesign. We have some valuable information which is hidden away on other pages, and a little reordering might be helpful, too.

1a. The game links should be on the main page for the game. This is especially true of browser games. Are there any games that have so many links it'd ruin the game page to have them included?

1b. We have a tips section, but it's little enough used that I rarely glance over to see if there's anything in it. Perhaps listing a few of the entries in that section on the main page would encourage people to actually use it. It's a bit useless as it stands, I think.

1c. I'd like it if the screenshots linked to the actual shots, rather than all of them linking to the screenshots page. I still occasionally open up a few new tabs pointing all at the screenshot page before remembering that's how it works. Of course, we could then just have a little text 'all screenshots', or something like, linking to the screenshots page.

1d. I'd reorder the sections. If I had my choice, I'd probably say: description; forums; trivia; user reviews; the press says. And, on the right sidebar: screenshots; links; groups; credits.

1. It'd be great if we accepted more pictures. Feelies, sides of game boxes, scanned advertisements, whatever else people might dream of.

2. Releases should be able to be tied to multiple games, and should have more detailed descriptions. Then, compilations, special editions, demos, and whatever else could just be added as releases of the games they contain, with whatever necessary details spelled out per release. Screenshots could also be tied to a particular combination of release and game, and we could use our current only-distinct-content rule to prevent fifty copies of every screenshot being added.

3. Related to the last: we should support demos, shareware versions, publicly released betas, and any other kind of game release that people might have acquired in any way. We can't claim to thoroughly document games if we don't cover this as well. In particular, there are lots of cases where demos were released weeks or months in advance of the full version being available (or even cases where the full version was never released), and we should document that release date as well.

4. We should have videos. These could be hosted by youtube or whatever your preferred video host, but we should have them. I was a little skeptical about the value of videos before, but I have seen the light. Observe the animated GIF on this wikipedia article. That little video explains Prince of Persia better than pages of text or dozens of screenshots could. We need things like that here.

I guess that 2 and 4 could be more or less done now with just policy changes, but some software support would probably be best.

I've got lots more never-gonna-happen-but-would-be-neat ideas, but I guess I'll leave off here so as to have a list of merely finite length.

Sicarius (61518) on 8/10/2010 4:34 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

• When a credits submissions is about to run out you get an email - it would be cool, if this concept would be expanded to include other submissions currently WIP. Mainly of course new game entries.

• I know the yellow warning text is there for a reason and I don't want to remove it. But it would be cool to have a way to tell the wizard "Yes, I've read it and I know that I've more work to do here but let me jump to another page of the wizard real quick anyway, okay?".

In my case it would mainly be useful for the credits wizard because during the classification-phase I often find typos in the role-names but I can't immediately go back and fix them but instead have to finish the classifications or reopen the credits. The first way has the risk of me forgetting about the typo and the latter is a bit of a hassle.

Commodore64 on 8/15/2010 1:18 AM · Permalink · Report

Something I'd like to see, being a new user to this site:

-Abolish the 100 games limit for the playlist. I'd like to maintain the list of games I've played with the links to their respective MobyGames database entries, and the "playlist" feature serves this task very well, but I'm afraid I might hit the limit at some point.

Luis Silva (13443) on 8/20/2010 3:29 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

After entering credits for the first time in ages, since we (finally) have the name ID in the drop box, search results for developers should have a second line with the companies he/she worked for, something like:

Developer: Peter Molyneux
Microsoft Game Studios, Electronic Arts, CDV Studios, Sierra Online, Firebird Software

Or even:

Developer: Peter Molyneux
Active between 1988 and 2010 (Microsoft Game Studios, Electronic Arts, CDV Studios, Sierra Online, Firebird Software)

This would make choosing between common names (even searching) a lot faster, although could be a bit of a stretch on database queries. Comments?

Foxhack (32100) on 8/20/2010 8:57 PM · Permalink · Report

Separate MobyRanks for non-scored reviews.

I've seen lots of magazines that don't give a number or a grade, instead they say "X has this and that, avoid / play it."

I'd like to have this featured as an option for MobyRanks, but not have it affect the score. Just as reference. Or something.

SharkD (425) on 8/22/2010 5:14 AM · Permalink · Report

Ditto on the expanded search capabilities. I think BoardGameGeek.com should be used as a model. Their search options are simply awesome!

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/advsearch/boardgame

(You will have to expand the three options at the bottom to see the true scope of what they allow you to select.)

Foxhack (32100) on 8/22/2010 8:25 PM · Permalink · Report

A Downloadable Content tech spec to be used on Windows / Mac, PS3, PSP, Wii, XBox 360, and whatever other platforms that need it.

It's a necessity considering how much DLC is being released these days, no?

Lain Crowley (6629) on 9/7/2010 5:15 PM · Permalink · Report

I think this has already been brought up, but would it be possible to expand the Tech Specs pages for PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and GameCube pages to have a stat aside from the notes section for the official save file size, since all three systems list save file sizes on the box? Also possibly an additional section aside from notes for every system from the Turbo Duo to the GameCube for actual save file sizes. I guess they could be used for other consoles with large HDDs, but that just seems kind of needlessly pedantic.

qwertyuiop (50090) on 9/10/2010 4:40 AM · Permalink · Report

Quick bug: When adding a game, under "Game Ratings", I can't just leave it at just "Personal Slant"; the system asks me to add at least one more rating category. The problem? Just having Personal Slant is (I hope) the correct behavior for compilations. I can work around this by skipping that screen entirely, but that's annoying.

(Also, I'd like the ability to go back to an earlier screen even if the current one isn't filled in correctly. When researching the release date, sometimes I think of something I want to add to the description.)

BdR (7207) on 9/15/2010 10:30 AM · Permalink · Report

Just wondering, is it currently possible to add a game without an exact release year? For example like 198X or 199X, or without a release year at all?

I ask because I have recently submitted a game (David's Kong for DOS) of which there is no release info to be found at all. It was somewhere in the 1980s, probably 1984 or 1985.

Foxhack (32100) on 9/17/2010 4:14 AM · Permalink · Report

How about some more Sony PN prefixes? I'd like it if CPCS could be added since Capcom uses that for some of their later releases and bundles.

There should be a few threads in the approver forum where I complain about these.

SharkD (425) on 10/2/2010 1:56 AM · Permalink · Report

I guess this is the proper thread to post this.

Having video reviews and features might be nice if it were tied into a Youtube channel. (Bandwidth would not be an issue, correct?)

Lain Crowley (6629) on 10/2/2010 4:20 PM · Permalink · Report

It might be nice to have a tech spec box where a game's level of subtitling (completely subtitled, partially, none) can be described. It's not exactly a "tech spec" per say, but that sounds like the best place to put that kind of information.

Lain Crowley (6629) on 10/7/2010 8:59 PM · Permalink · Report

The current "This day in gaming" short list is kind of, well, limited. It might work better if it took one or two entires from random years in the past three decades (i.e. 2003, 1996, 1988). There probably isn't enough to-the-day dated information from the 70s for it to be worth fitting in there.

Starbuck the Third (22606) on 10/7/2010 11:35 PM · Permalink · Report

Ok, now for something i would really like to see, and we do not currently accept anywhere and that's been brought up somewhere else, possibly by Dewa Indra. That being images/scans/photos of extras from limited/collectors/special editions, especially but not limited to artwork books. Also inlcudes stuff like the Fallout 3 bobblehead, the Dom and Maria keepsake photo fron the Gears of War 2 Limited Edition and the injector pen from the Dead Rising 2 Zombrex Edition.

Considering the aim of MobyGames is "To meticulously catalog all relevant information about electronic games", i am a bit surprised this sort of thing is not already accepted in here.

If any of the big wigs are reading this, I would be interested in any comments, thoughts or plans about this being implemented.

Starbuck the Third (22606) on 10/10/2010 3:41 PM · Permalink · Report

A revision of the ad blurbs section of the mobystandards could use a revision regarding ad blurbs similarities. Had a few just rejected by one approver after a few were approved by another, despite nothing about it being mentioned in the MobyStandards. I know it this has had a thread about it in the approvers forums, but not everyone has access to it.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 10/17/2010 9:16 AM · Permalink · Report

After submitting a description revision I'd like to be redirected to the game's rap sheet like for any other contribution.

Jack Torrance (30) on 10/19/2010 2:22 PM · Permalink · Report

Hi, I am not sure if anyone mentioned this earlier, but I would like to see one improvement in Game Browser. There should be a way to sort the games by MobyRank and MobyScore via Game Browser.

Radek Koncewicz on 10/22/2010 4:43 PM · Permalink · Report

I'd love to see the backend streamed into blog software such as WordPress.

What I'm most interested in is a sidebar widget that could display one of my playlists. I'm currently doing this for my blog with an Amazon plugin (the now playing widget http://www.significant-bits.com/), but it doesn't always have the games I want to mention and linking to a store might be seen as an advertisement.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 11/11/2010 4:12 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

Never mind

Indra was here (20755) on 11/18/2010 12:11 PM · Permalink · Report

Wonders why MG doesn't provide a form of description + pictures + anything regarding the platforms available here.

A bit low on the educational and informational values here.

Klaster_1 (57612) on 11/24/2010 3:47 AM · Permalink · Report

1. In credits add page, when multiple developers exists under similar name we have string "multiple people match the name Gavin Parker, please select the correct one". It would be useful to have name there linked to search, like these: "multiple people match the name Gavin Parker, please select the correct one."

2. Ability to create credits categories with blank title.

Starbuck the Third (22606) on 12/1/2010 9:44 PM · Permalink · Report

It would be nice (and very helpful) if yet to be approved submissions where shown on the release info contribution screen.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 12/19/2010 9:46 AM · Permalink · Report

I want to able to assign a classification to a whole group.

Example: I have a group "Voice Actors" with 30 roles. I don't want to have to assign "Audio-->Voice Talent" to each one individually

Multimedia Mike (20664) on 12/23/2010 8:50 PM · Permalink · Report

So I was reading The 5 Hardest, Most Pointless World of Warcraft Achievements when it hit me: MobyGames should have achievements. I know that the points system was introduced for a similar reason: to give contributors a numerical measure of achievement. But perhaps it's time to implement achievements for, e.g., contributing your first game, contributing 10, 50, 100 games ("OCD historian!"); 100, 1000, 5000 screenshots ("Shutterbug!"); 20, 50, 100 bits of cover art ("Paper trail!"). You get the idea.

We just need to come up with the appropriate category thresholds and absurdly punny names for each one.

Oh, and we also need to have a separate committee to keep generating new achievements based on whatever contribution level Sciere happens to be at this week. :-)

Indra was here (20755) on 1/5/2011 8:11 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

Stupid bandwidth. Might as well do something while I wait.

Gigantum list of things that need to be updated in MG (which may or may not have been addressed already), all of which may only be fixed by the MG Gods. But before that, there should be a philosophy that I need to propose for MG:

Let the MG community decide the development, growth, and direction of the MG database.

[enter sarcastic comment here]

1. Approver Consensus Notification
   Severe communication issues really should not be an MG trademark.
2. New User Submission Priority Concern
   Separate queue for approvers regarding submissions by new users submissions, i.e. under 100 points. So they don't get buried under joyvalley's stuff.
3. Buy/Trade
   
   • The Buy section should be made available in the main game rapsheet instead for obvious MG commercial reasons, leaving only the trade option.
     
   • The link should be un-clickable if there is no info available there, since many having nothing in it.
   Reasoning: Obvious for MG commercial purposes. Also inefficient, since for many games, that link contains nothing.
4. Browser
   • Mentioned new bug: Avatar does not show up properly.
   • Long posts not viewed properly. I seem to be the only one that has this issue with Modzilla FireFox. Long posts (like this one) get cut and the rest is not displayed, for both MobyClassic and MobyDark. Bug emerged during the last big update. [edit] Note: Bug only appears in threaded view. It displays correctly using flat view.
5. Documentation
   • That thing we used to have with replacementdocs.org should be resurrected.
   • A place to contribute a list of documentation provided by a game. Includes readme files, manuals, licenses, any and all readable documentary.
   • A place to contribute complete readme files and patch readme files, and any part of any documentation needed for research (e.g. system requirements in game manual). Will do wonders to improve the quality of the database.
6. Downloadable MG Tool
   A downloadable tool which will allow users to work offline and upload content when needed. Invaluable for users that have lousy bandwidth like myself.
7. ChangeLog
   New changelog updates should indicated by an additional symbol to inform registered users that new updates have been implemented.
8. Credits
   Too many to mention. Here's some: A. There seems to be an additional space that appears after an entitized name in the official approved credits. ..and that's about all I can remember. :p
9. Developer Names
   
   • Developer Name Standards
     Stage names (or nicknames) really shouldn't be the main name in the developer rapsheet. A bit tired of proposing this, since this should be a game database first and foremost. Databases really shouldn't make such unequal distinctions which does not follow any form of academic standard. Please compare the following: George Alistair Sanger aka the Fat Man
     Curtis Jackson aka 50 cent
     Madonna Stage names have a bad habit of changing for inspiring artists. The legal name would be more responsible (and perhaps an unpopular approach), despite many artists are more well known for their stage names. It's harder to change the real name than their stage name. I use the same reasoning for company names as well (LucasArts Ltd. instead of just LucasArts).
   • Developer Name AKAs
     An 'add developer aka' feature would be nice for efficiency's sake.
10. Future Feature Requests
    Future Feature Requests (or similar name) link should be made available, ideally after or before the ChangeLog link. It will give the notion that user recommendations have at least been recognized and taken under advisement, as well as something to look forward to for veteran users. Or basically an official tidier version of this thread An interesting version would be a link that allows any user (registered or not) to submit a feature request. The feature request may then be edited/tidied up by any approver and be added to the list of future update requests. List viewable here may be ordered by date of request, priority (increased by user votes), features currently being worked on by the admins, etc.
11. Links/Searches
    Should be removed and all relevant information provided in the main game rapsheet for efficiency. The game's official website should also explicitly be viewable somewhere at the top, beside the cover art.
12. MobyAchievements
    As mentioned in previous posts. Will allow users that already have no life discover that there is such a thing as having even more no life beyond of having no life!
13. MobyGames Credits Toolkit
    As provided by MegamanX64 in this thread. Haven't tried it personally, but it really should be made available in the credits wizard.
14. MobyStandards
    Relevant sections of the standards and guidelines should be made available at each contribution section. Or at least a link directing to specific mentioned section in the MobyStandards.
15. Online Users
    Similar to other forums, number of registered, unregistered, and approvers currently online. Approvers should also opt to make themselves uniquely identified:
    Approver: Sciere is always online.
    Approver: Kabushi will be online in 2 hours.
    Approver: Unicorn Lynx is online but busy playing and contributing hentai games.
    Approver: BurningStickMan is offline. PC just blew up.
    Approver: veddar is online. On Facebook, not on MG.
    Approver: joyvally is online and busy approving a sheeid load of stuff he contributed himself. Oh, wait.
16. Original Title
    As addressed before by some users. The original game title should be the main title used. It really is time to get rid of the 'this is a US site' mentality...'this is a games database' mentality should take precedence. It will also add more respect for and by the international community. Will also have to address this problem mentioned by Kabushi: "The problem is that there is no attributes attached to the main titles. So there's no way to know which country they are for. So you would probably have to go through and edit them manually for that to work."
17. Patch History
    There should be a paragraph break between dates. Example: X³: Terran Conflict.
18. Release Info
    • Company Roles
      A. There should be an easier way to add new company roles in an existing company release info without using the correction approach...an approach known to veteran users but not to new users. B. Also need new company roles.
    • Efficiency fix Example: X³: Terran Conflict. Looks messy as hell. Would propose a hide box. Categories using countries/release comment. Example: - Germany [Hide Box]
      - [Click on Hide Box]
      - [Germany full release info viewed] - GamersGate release [Hide Box]
      - [Click on Hide Box]
      - [GamersGate release full release info viewed]
    • Release Info (in main game rapsheet) should be separated from Patch Info:
      A. Patch Info should stand alone.
      B. Patch Info should be located in the same frame/column under Release Info. Reasoning: New users may not be aware that patch info is also featured in the database. A separate Patch Info section may also provide a more complete description of patch updates, including direct links for patch downloads.
    • Font Size
      There appears to be some minor inconsistencies when using certain font sizes:
      - One font size shows a spacing lack between 'Additional Graphics by' and the companies.
      - Larger fonts have companies continued to displayed under the company roles instead of sticking to their designated margins.
    • Punctuation Fix
      - There should be a comma (,) before 'and' for more than three contributors
      - There should be a fullstop (.) after the last contributor name: Sicarius (61193), Agent 5 (8040) -->,<--- and Klaster_1 (18708)-->.<---
      So it should look like this:
      Sicarius (61193), Agent 5 (8040), and Klaster_1 (18708).
      Instead of this:
      Sicarius (61193), Agent 5 (8040) and Klaster_1 (18708)
      
19. Reviews
    • A minor edit feature
      As once proposed by several users. Original score will be retained. Hate it when I do a minor edit on a 10 page review and my score gets degraded from 5 to 4 depending on the approver. :p
    • Editable box title.
      That Good/Bad thingy. Some reviewers have expressed their dislike of these restrictions. If it could be editable or other variations to suit users odd tastes would make the site more user friendly.
20. Sources
    
    • Academic Footnotes
      As mentioned previously by BurningStickMan. Thus far, the only form of academic footnotes used have only been provided by Sciere. We really should promote its use.
    • Screenshots
      Other contribution areas, such as tech specs, release info, should also provide a screenshot upload to help the approvers verify an entry.
21. Search Engine
    A total disgrace for a database. Should feature clickable boxes (for genres/platforms/years/game groups/EVERYTHING) since gamers really have strange tastes.
22. Trivia Revision
    The new trivia revision system does not yet recognized contributors resulting from merging trivia items. Users still have to manually identify mention past contributers in new merge revisions.

Does not cross fingers.

Starbuck the Third (22606) on 1/15/2011 5:04 PM · Permalink · Report

Was just scanning the covers for Borderlands, and looking at the case sitting on my scanner, I wondered why we don't add the spines of game covers as well. Lets face it, they are part of the box art and are 90% of the time like the rest of the cover, unique and styled to that game.

Arjon van Dam (1247) on 2/3/2011 11:17 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

1. A column containing platform, or even better, a platform-filter on the "game updates" page would be nice.

2. When searching for a game title: it would be nice if you can just search for "a.k.a." to get as result all the games using a.k.a. [being known by more then 1 name]

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 2/14/2011 7:40 PM · Permalink · Report

A RSS feed for the general game update list

Lain Crowley (6629) on 3/1/2011 4:40 PM · Permalink · Report

Inspired by indra's recent thread, put a button on each game page that registered users can click to request a review. Games with review requests can be searched on Most Wanted!, sorted by the numbers of requests, and requests will decay when reviews are submitted.

Starbuck the Third (22606) on 3/3/2011 7:02 PM · Permalink · Report

You know how we have a "currently playing" list on out rap sheets? well it would be nice if there was a link to a list on every games rap sheet showing all the people currently playing that game.

BurningStickMan (17916) on 3/3/2011 8:44 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

I'd like to see an expansion of the Most Wanted! feature to include a percentage of database completion for each game system.

How you would calculate it would be up for debate, but some combination of entries with complete descriptions, credits, screenshots, etc. Likely compared against established lists of all known releases for the system. Then, if you wanted to, you could drill down and see what's missing same as you can now.

Idea being that someone could see that 80% of Mega Drive games are documented, and be inspired to help finish the last 20%. Actually putting a number to it gives it more a tangible goal.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 3/29/2011 7:03 PM · Permalink · Report

I suggest a separate credits entering process for music credits. Since music credits have mostly the same structure (song name, musician, writer, published by, recording courtesy by, licensed from...) it would be easy to have a pre-defined box where the contributor only has to fill in the blanks.

Then those credits could be shown in its own subpage with every song being a group so that they don't clutter up the "real" credits. With all those newer games with huge soundtracks this can become a huge problem, just look at GTA IV.

Klaster_1 (57612) on 3/31/2011 4:33 AM · Permalink · Report

I hate when after uploading 10Mb of covers it says "Release Country at least one must be selected". It's a good manner to verify forms before submitting too.

Starbuck the Third (22606) on 4/11/2011 2:12 PM · Permalink · Report

Whilst we do list strategy as a genre, it's pretty general, especially if, like i just did, decided to look for how many RTS games (as in command and conquer, halo wars, etc) there are on a platform, only to get games that are strategy in a very general way, unlike RTS's, which is a specific genre in itself.

Klaster_1 (57612) on 4/21/2011 4:59 AM · Permalink · Report

I suggest to add new role "Manual by". I've just found a company with nice (and not full) list of their works. Also, it appears in Homefront credits.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 4/25/2011 3:57 PM · Permalink · Report

Approver request:

You know how the contribution automatically updates when you change something during ad-blurb or trivia approval? I want that for all other queues, too.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 4/27/2011 1:49 PM · Permalink · Report

If there is only platform for a game entry you can see when it was contributed. If there are multiple platforms, you can't. And if the description was not revised before you can't even see who wrote the description!

I'd like to see this changed. Credit where credit is due.

Lain Crowley (6629) on 4/29/2011 5:05 AM · Permalink · Report

There should be somewhere on a game's rap sheet to mention accessibility features. Subtitles, remappable controls, colorblind support, and so forth.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 4/30/2011 8:10 PM · Permalink · Report

I'd like to ban useless prefixes like "Disney's...", "American McGee's..." or "Parker presents the awesome new board game..." to the alternate titles. Something similar to "tag-lined title". We don't handle those consistent anyway.

I could also do without those "in-game titles" etc. which only differentiate in something small like an additional exclamation mark or something. Keep it to official and useful alt titles.But that's just me.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 5/1/2011 10:40 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

Yes, this is an old topic which was addressed before.

Everything should be editable by users through the regular approval process: genres, titles, release info, MobyRanks. The advantage would be obvious: less exclusive admin work. So admins can concentrate on the stuff that really needs their attention.

Similarly I wished for two separate escalation queues: one for admin issues (e.g. missing tech specs, deleted credits) and one for the more frequent "I need a second opinion" issues. This way admins see faster where they are needed.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 5/5/2011 7:50 PM · Permalink · Report

You know how we expanded all those "Comments for the approver" boxes? We missed the one when submitting a new game group.

GTramp (81965) on 5/6/2011 4:25 AM · Permalink · Report

It may have been discussed earlier, but still - it would be really really convenient to see all currently pending contributions to a game at game's page somewhere. I'm relatively new to Moby, but I've already had a couple or more replies from the approvers like "Sorry, but someone has just submitted the same info a nanosecond before you..." Wish I knew that a moment before I clicked that "Submit" button! Thanx.

ZenicReverie (2132) on 5/12/2011 10:42 PM · Permalink · Report

I would really like to use my want list to add games that aren't in the MG database. I would add the game, but don't know enough information about it. It's a less effective feature if I can't add all of the games I want.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 5/14/2011 12:49 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

I hate the fact that games can't be submitted twice to a game group. Rejected once and it can't be contributed ever again, even if the rejection was due to false reasons or the game group definition changed in the meantime.

Example: If you click on "add games" in the Comanche group it shows multiple compilations as "Games currently in this group" but they are not "really" in the group - they were rejected before.

Compilations (at least since I am a member of this site) are allowed in series game groups. But it is impossible to add them.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 5/15/2011 1:46 PM · Permalink · Report

Pending companies which are not associated with a pending release info should be auto-abandoned after some time.

Indra was here (20755) on 5/27/2011 4:12 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

[1] Any item in WIP for some odd reason doesn't provide a link to mentioned game. Nothing on your main user's page. Nothing on the 'more info' link either. Extremely annoying.

[2] Finishing a contribution doesn't provide a link to the previous game. You have to use the browser selection (i.e. back). MG doesn't provide a link or alternative to go back to the game's main page.

GTramp (81965) on 5/29/2011 10:29 AM · Permalink · Report

I wish it was possible to add a game into my playlist directly from game's page.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 6/5/2011 3:41 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

As discussed a few times before in the approver's forum: We should introduce a new MobyRank source category for review sites which don't meet our MobyRank criteria. I especially think of certain private retro reviews.

Of course there still needs to be a certain quality requirement, e.g. user-submitted reviews disguised as editorial reviews (like on Abandonia), badly written reviews (like on Abandonia) or very short reviews (like on Abandonia) should still be a no-go. I don't want to start a new discussion on specifics here - we already did that a few times in and outside the approver's forum with many ideas - but this definitely should be kept in mind.

But then we don't have to delete all those non-professional MobyRank sources which slipped in during the last years. Also consider that, especially for old games, these are often the only source of further information about a game. And we also don't have to hear the justified complaints of users who lose a lot of contribution points when we delete a (good) non-professional MobyRank source.

Havoc Crow (29859) on 6/8/2011 8:24 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

Fix the darn release date on the game's rap sheet.

What is displayed in the "Released" field at the moment is the date the game was released in your country (based on your IP) and not the year of its original release. Take a look at this game - it's from 1999, but if you view the page from USA (check comment #4), it says "released 2002". And, of course, someone who's not a MobyGames expert won't even suspect that the actual date is something else entirely!

There is no excuse for this. It's useless, incredibly confusing, and it goes against the grain of "quality over quantity" if MG displays ostensibly misleading data to its users.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 6/18/2011 1:33 PM · Permalink · Report

I suggest splitting press releases from other ad blurbs. They should be ordered after the press release date instead of the contribution date like other blurbs.

Reason: Modern games tend to have a lot of press releases which make the ad blurb section very crowded.

CKeen The Great (160) on 7/4/2011 4:51 PM · Permalink · Report

Hi. I hope I'm not posting in the wrong section etc but I was wondering if it was possible to get a "Similar games" tool like the one gamespot uses. (When you select a game there it shows a list of similar games that you may like). Since this database is bigger (and better) than Gamespot's I think it would be a nice addition.

CrankyStorming (2927) on 7/10/2011 3:04 PM · Permalink · Report

We should be able to suggest changes to a game's MobyScore criteria. For example, Flipnote Studio doesn't really have any storytelling or ideas to present, but I have to rate it by those anyway (unless it means the flipnotes themselves, but even those aren't an actual part of the release) and can't do a thing about it.

Rola (8483) on 7/12/2011 11:46 PM · Permalink · Report

I don't remember seeing it here - how about adding to genres (better than making a game group) tile/hex-based?

porg (1) on 7/15/2011 1:23 PM · Permalink · Report

In general I would like to see more key commands for quick navigation.

In particular I would like to have keyboard commands in picture galleries (screenshots, package material, etc):

COMMAND: Previous picture, Next picture, Previous Platform, Next platform, Picture index

KEYSET1: left, right, up, down, i (the arrow keys might conflict with general browser scrolling keys)

KEYSET2: a,d,w,s,i

charmante charmante on 8/12/2011 9:33 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

spam

BurningStickMan (17916) on 8/12/2011 4:07 PM · Permalink · Report

I would really like to see an ability to limit the "random game" feature by platform. It would be nice to have the option to seek out a random, say, Mega Drive game instead of randomizing through the entire database.

CrankyStorming (2927) on 8/18/2011 11:28 AM · Permalink · Report

On the reviews page, we should be able to see how a source rated other games. We do the same for user reviews, so this would be a lot easier than having to go to their website and search their database, sometimes it not being clear what they though of a given game until you reach the page.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 9/20/2011 9:23 PM · Permalink · Report

I am not sure if this was mentioned before and I am not going to read the whole thread.

What I'd like to see is a possibility to upload proof images directly when contributing - something similar like in the credits wizard.

So for example I am submitting patch or release information and the information is from a readme on my PC. Now I either have to hope that the approver believes me or I upload a screenshot on a third-party image host and link it in the comment.

Handling this directly through the contribution wizard has two obvious advantages:
1) Less hassle for the contributor and approver
2) The images stay on MobyGames and can be used when the contribution needs to get reviewed for some reason in the future - it can be almost guaranteed that the pictures from the imagehost will be long gone.

Игги Друге (46653) on 9/24/2011 1:13 AM · Permalink · Report

I think the site should import the Good* (e.g. GoodMSX) dump lists, the ones used by "ROM collectors". They should serve as a good baseline for what we have on file and what we're missing. We should also be able to sort out the dumps for non-games from the lists.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 10/15/2011 8:47 PM · Permalink · Report

When entering half-point MobyRanks (1.5 out of ten for example) the system should support commas besides points, too. Or at least give a error message instead of just cutting of the part behind the comma.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 11/13/2011 12:26 PM · Permalink · Report

Electronic covers should only reward one point.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 11/16/2011 2:42 PM · Permalink · Report

I'd like a introduction to "packaging types" with pictures of every type. Everyone is confused when something is not a standard Keep Case/Box/Jewel Case.

I just discovered that what I always called "Slipcase" are supposed to be "Sleeve". And a "Slipcase" is, according to some age-old forums post in the approver forums, what I always thought to be a "Digipack". And the fact that no approver ever called me out on that proves that this is not only my own idiocy.

Lain Crowley (6629) on 12/2/2011 5:17 AM · Permalink · Report

OK, here is my Grand Unified Plan for dealing with the problem of multiple game editions once and for all. Unfortunately it's so simple and easy that I'm sure someone else has already suggested it.

For games with multiple versions/releases, the first release of it will be considered a Master release. This will be the version that has a complete description of the game written. Every other release of the game will be considered a Slave release, and will be linked to its Master release at creation. Every Slave release will include, first, the complete description from its Master version. It will then, in a separate section directly below that, have its own short entry on everything different in that particular release. Whenever a Master release is edited that change will be copied over to all its Slaves. This would be used for both renamed re-releases and special editions. Compilations remain the same they are now.

Pros: Every page currently in the database remains unchanged aside from the new code. No pages have to be added or deleted.

Cons: Needs a new code that appears to be unlike anything else on Moby.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 12/3/2011 4:48 PM · Permalink · Report

Most Wanted:

Restrict search to: "Games I added"

Barbarian_bros (15187) on 1/5/2012 11:29 PM · Permalink · Report

I dream about an easy way to add multiple platfoms at a time when I want to use the 'add to 'Have List' fonction...

When a game is made for DOS and Windows 95 on the same disc, what should i choose? Dos, windows and sometimes Windows 3.x or even Mac when it's an hybrid CD, should I only choose one platform (for now i choose DOS as default) or add manytimes the same game (even if on my bookshelf it's only 1 box..)

Why don't allow user to choose more than 1 platform?

BdR (7207) on 2/8/2012 3:27 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

I know it's probably technically unfeasible now, but I think in the most ideal form, Mobygames should be able to present something like this games-family-tree -> Matching Tile games: A Family tree

To give an example, very recently there was an iphone game released called "Achtung Duo", it was a sequel of "Achtung Die Curve" for ipad, which was based on a DOS game "Achtung Die Curve" which in turn has its roots in an obscure polish game "Červi" from 1991. You'd be hard pressed to find that kind of background info on any other sites..

Starbuck the Third (22606) on 4/5/2012 3:42 PM · Permalink · Report

OK, a recent forum topic on ad blurbs got me thinking, why don't we document official game trailers etc? It would seem a natural progression from ad blurbs.

macmat (533) on 5/3/2012 6:27 PM · Permalink · Report

I don't know if it has been suggested already, but I think a game's MobyScore should be calculated only by it's personal slant votes. It's not good for me that, for example, acting is as important as gameplay.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 5/28/2012 8:00 PM · Permalink · Report

Based on a recent discussion I request a way to "mark off" the usual credit sources which don't have credits in them.

For example, Guild Wars is one of those cases where no credits listing exists. So if one owns the game and checked for credits, he could create an entry in a checklist "no credits in start menu", "no credits in game files", "no credits in manual (UK, 2005)", "no credits after outro (Game version x.yy)", etc. This would help credit hunters so they don't waste time checking sources which were already ruled out by other contributors.

Klaster_1 (57612) on 6/15/2012 4:50 AM · Permalink · Report

While entering credits, we generally encounter two situations:

1. Multiple matches.
2. No such person.

I suggest adding search link into red warning message, so you can simply click on it and find the right developer or check for similar names.

The other thing about credits is awfully annoying role selection. When there are other platform credits already listed without major differences, it would be great to assign same roles automatically. Or even better - edit already submitted one into new entry.

With less time spent on outdated mechanisms MG will get more submissions.

GTramp (81965) on 6/17/2012 11:36 AM · Permalink · Report

I've been working on a game entry for too long, and today I found out it disappeared. I received NO WARNING, so I was unaware until it was too late.

Is it possible to make system send out notifications to avoid stuff like this?

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 7/21/2012 10:59 AM · Permalink · Report

MobyTags should not count against the character limit in MobyRanks, alt title descriptors, etc.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 7/28/2012 8:13 AM · Permalink · Report

A list of supported HTML commands along with examples how to use them in the MobyGames Style Guide.

yenruoj_tsegnol_eht (!!ihsoy) (2599) on 8/10/2012 2:02 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

I'd judge it very helpful if, when submitting a MobyRank, after having chosen the source, the rating system would be automatically set by the system, as well as it already happens as regards the language. This feature would speed the work of adding MobyRanks remarkably.

Another thing: when submitting the cover for a game for cellular phones, the system forces to input the video format picking it from PAL and NTSC: that's senseless.

yenruoj_tsegnol_eht (!!ihsoy) (2599) on 8/13/2012 9:42 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

This isn't a feature, or it is, from some kind of a point of view.

I wish that we don't see anymore, in Release Info pages, «PSN release» and «PlayStation Network Release», «XBLA release» and «Xbox Live Arcade release», «SNES version (Virtual Console release)» «Virtual Console release (SNES version)» «SNES version» and so forth.

Editorial choices could be agreed by approvers, and those of them who wouldn't make release comments uniform when approving them could then be whipped o:-)...

yenruoj_tsegnol_eht (!!ihsoy) (2599) on 9/1/2012 5:29 PM · Permalink · Report

Tech-Specs: it should be allowed to submit them for more than one platform at a time. Many times, for instance submitting them for the iPad and iPhone version of a game, an unnecessary double work is required.

Starbuck the Third (22606) on 9/5/2012 3:25 PM · Permalink · Report

How about contribution points for adding games to gamegroups. Should help keep information up to date.

Klaster_1 (57612) on 9/12/2012 3:47 PM · Permalink · Report

Small screenshots tend to make captions unreadable and even with default enlargement image details are barely distinguishable.

Rola (8483) on 9/14/2012 11:23 AM · Permalink · Report

I always liked the way MobyGames lists contributors on the bottom of the page (and not hides it like Wikipedia). Could we have it similar way for descriptions alone? New combined trivia format does that already. Just compare to examples where you can click more descriptions: "Contributed by XXXX, revised by YYYY".

Maybe then I'd be more inclined to submit revisions to those awful one-line descriptions ;)

yenruoj_tsegnol_eht (!!ihsoy) (2599) on 9/17/2012 1:50 PM · Permalink · Report

Rating descriptors for iTunes games, as well as «content rating» for Android Apps (such as «everyone», ...) are lacking. And it very apparently couldn't take much time to add the support for those.

Klaster_1 (57612) on 10/15/2012 3:11 PM · Permalink · Report

Another nasty bug. Various searches for Markus Persson's alternative names:

1. Quick search for Notch: exact person.
2. Credits name search for Notch: nothing.
3. Credits name search for Markus Alexej Persson: exact person.

Please fix that.

Rola (8483) on 10/26/2012 5:30 PM · Permalink · Report

When I finished the contribution process and I see the "Thank You" there should be a link taking me back to that game or group.

Rola (8483) on 11/7/2012 8:26 AM · Permalink · Report

How can I link to a specific post (not just thread) on our forum? Post title should contain permalink.

Giu's Brain (503) on 11/12/2012 9:07 PM · Permalink · Report

Number 1 on my wishlist: searching that actually retrieves all the results, even if they include a colon after the word you searched for. It's annoying when you search for a game and you only remember that it was called, for example, Raptor and you can't find it in the search results, despite the fact the game is very much in the database.

And yes, I know you're all well aware of this issue. I'm just annoyed this hasn't been fixed in so long; rant over.

Cavalary (11445) on 12/10/2012 3:48 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

While we're dreaming here, seeing as it'll require plenty of programming changes and hence will never happen, what about a tiered approval system?

1. New users or users inexperienced in the submission type in question will still always require approval. Their submissions will get to the approvers marked as high priority.
   
2. Users who meet all of the following criteria:
   
3. Have been members for at least 3 months.
   
4. Have at least 1000 overall points.
   
5. Have at least 100 points in the category in question.
   
6. Are not marked as unreliable.
   will have their submissions show up automatically* but will not get points until they are formally approved. Their submissions will get to the approvers with normal priority.
   
7. Users who meet all of the following criteria:
   
8. Have been members for at least 3 years.
   
9. Have at least 10000 overall points.
   
10. Have obtained at least 1000 points in the category in question (may be too high for some categories, so may need to vary... or submission rewards will need to be balanced more appropriately) during each of the past 3 years.
    

11. Are marked as reliable*.
    will have their submissions show up automatically and will get points right away. Their submissions will still get to the approvers, but with low priority and may simply be deleted without an answer. Points will of course be removed if the submission gets replaced as incorrect at a later point or if an approver does look over it and reject it.

12. This implies user ratings, given automatically by the system, say like so:
    

13. Reliable: Has at least 1000 total submissions, not counting those that were ultimately abandoned or those that never require approval (just ratings I think?), more than 95% of which having been approved directly (includes automatic approvals) and less than 1% having been rejected (includes later rejections and those replaced as incorrect), the difference being of course made up of those sent back for clarification and ultimately approved.
    
14. Unreliable: More than 5% of submissions have been rejected (includes later rejections and those replaced as incorrect) or less than 90% have been approved directly (includes automatic approvals).
    
15. Normal: Everyone not fitting into either of the above.

** Users will be able to filter out content temporarily approved automatically and only see the rest (approved manually and fully approved automatically due to submitter reliability) if they so wish.

Will be a hybrid of the current model and a wiki, still allowing for high reliability (note the high thresholds) but also clearing the queues somewhat, waving through the most active and reliable submitters and also ensuring that new users will be seen to much quicker to resolve another issue some have.

Of course, as I said, requiring a backend redesign means it'll never happen, but hey...

Mr. Tae (63) on 12/14/2012 3:52 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

Watermarks might be hidden on screenshots and cover arts. The site is slow and might have an "Destination net unreachable." error message on the ping command. Also, an 500 Service Temporarily Unavailable message might appear.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 12/16/2012 12:38 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

Have list: a checkbox if it is a physical or digital copy. I'd also like to make "dummy" entries of games not on the site yet.

Mr. Tae (63) on 12/23/2012 4:54 AM · edited · Permalink · Report

You will want an limit of 8 options to be chosen on the Most Wanted page.

chirinea (47495) on 2/6/2013 1:59 AM · Permalink · Report

One of the bad things about having a single "Windows" platform is that we don't know in which versions of Windows the game will run. Of course we list the minimum requirement, but there's no "maximum" requirement, or any kind of 32/64-bit compatibility table. Things are even worse when you think some games work on a certain version of Windows, doesn't in the next one and then works again in the following (I know some games that didn't work in Vista but did in XP and 7). We could have some way of tracking that.

Rwolf (22826) on 2/17/2013 1:19 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

I wish the 'Most Wanted' filter could have an optional exclusion of compilations, since those entries have most of the relevant information in the entries for the individual games. (not for the packaging, but the other things)

edit: Just noted that the most-wanted filter for 'less than x numbers of screenshots' does not work, and whatever number you select, it always results in the same 'less than zero screenshots' list.

If it got fixed, seeing the allowed shots are now up to 40, the selection could also go past 25.

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 2/24/2013 5:50 PM · Permalink · Report

When entering a correction, it would be nice to have a checkbox system which allows to check the platform(s) a correction refers to.

Am4zingGam3r (2) on 3/22/2013 10:53 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

For the following platforms to be added to the database:

Please excuse me if any of these are already on the site

Nikko digiBlast, Plug 'n' Play, Dedicated/Stand-Alone handhelds, V.Tech V.Smile Baby, V.Tech V.Smile Motion, V.Tech V.Flash, V.Tech Socrates, Inerton VC4000, XaviXport, Coleco ADAM, MegaDuck/CougarBoy, GamePark Holdings GP2X Wiz, GamePark Holdings GP2X Caanoo, Pandora, Pong Consoles, Timex-Sinclair 1000, Tomy Tutor/Pyuuta, Nintendo Sattelaview.

Perhaps the Famicom & the Super Famicom could have their own databases? It my be difficult to wipe the Famicom and Super Famicom titles from the SNES and NES databases, but I would gladly help contribute.

Fred VT (25953) on 4/4/2013 1:31 AM · Permalink · Report

It'd be nice that all entries of a single game be somehow grouped together as one entity, rather that have many separate entries (original NES game, PS1 enhanced version, PSP remake with even more options, PS3 HD version, PS3 HD version Collector's Edition, etc.). Of course they would need to be correctly split in sub-entries or something...

Patrick Bregger (301030) on 5/5/2013 7:14 PM · edited · Permalink · Report

This is certainly very low priority in comparison to other more important problems, but what I'd like to see sometime is a feature for print magazine content. So for example there would be a content list for each magazine and its coverdisk which is then linked with the game entry. In the game entry, the reader can find in which magazine (disk) there was a preview, a general article, a demo version, a video review, a trailer, a review, an ad etc.

Of course accompanying scans would be great, but of course this probably would lead to legal problems.