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Old Feb 24, 2013, 04:33 AM
Namorbia Namorbia is offline
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Originally Posted by Xenofan 29A View Post
Any ratings system you can imagine will be abused this way. Look at any movie on IMDb, and you'll see the same kind of distribution.
Like I said, attaching a verbal meaning to each point in the scale decreases this abuse. At least according to this article. So there is a difference in rating systems. Not everyone thinks of stars in terms of excellent, good, mediocre, etc. like you do. But if they would, that would help. RPGNet determines those labels for you and apparently it helps.

I didn't start this thread to change the rating system of VGMdb. I'm just interested in the subject in general. But if it's a viable option, of course we can think about changes to VGMdb's rating system too.

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Originally Posted by Dag View Post
Three star rating!
2 stars: great
1 star: good
-1 star: no good

Less choices = easier to understand!
I like this. Do you use this approach anywhere? Is it difficult not to have 0 stars or some option for "average"?

Last edited by Namorbia; Feb 24, 2013 at 04:36 AM.
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