Replace the 5-star Rating System

[peter]

@3yoGamer

Have you ever considered, doing something similar to HowLongToBeat, where the users can chose their rating scale? They have the option of 5/5, 10/10, or 100/100. Since here it adds up to a decimal rating anyway for the average rating, it wouldn’t change as much on the whole, apart from satisfying those people who really crave more precision in the ratings. For example having an option of half stars bringing it up to 10 point rating scale.

I have considered that actually. I’d thought about making a “private” rating and a “public” rating for a while. The private rating would have been whatever scale you wanted, and the public would be what our scale now is. I just thought it took away from the simplicity of the site too much.

@3yoGamer

For me it just means almost every single game gets the same exact score, bar a few exceptional games.

I actually kind of like this aspect of the 5 star scale. I didn’t want people to think too hard about it. A 6 and a 7 on a 10 point scale are the same thing to me. You might have been in a better mood because of something that happened at work when you played the game you gave a 7 than when you played the game you gave a 6. They probably deserve roughly the same score. That’s how I like to think about it anyway.

I always kind of point at the top 250 list on Grouvee (Top 250 games on Grouvee) as a little bit of validation that the rating system is working. Final Fantasy VI is the top rated Final Fantasy game, and that is the correct answer . In all seriousness, I think the games that people feel the most strongly about are at the top of that list.

@3yoGamer

And I like the idea, of different ratings for different categories for content discovery. Some categories like: soundtrack, graphics, asthetic, fun-factor, story, etc. would really allow for a great way to discover new games in a category you like. The more I think about it the more it sounds like a brilliant idea. Why hasn’t this been done somewhere before?

This is an interesting idea. I think it would overcomplicate things on a site like this, but I like the thought. There’s a site out there called goodfil.ms that people give two ratings on a movie, critical quality and rewatchability. It’s a cool way to rate movies, but I don’t know how something like that would work on Grouvee.