Uhmmm...what's up with the rating/hype meter?

Pivotelite

Random games have climbed and jumped significant amounts today with no change in the amount of votes, anyone else notice this?

 

Edit: Seems they are changing every 10 minutes lol...

Crunchy221

Hype meter has been busted since day one of this site.

There are games where there is ZERO hype, not bad games just old games that were classics...but are by no means hyped...permanatly more hyped than a lot of newer game with hype

 

Then you have the games magical movement which usually has nothing to do with the banner ads on the sight...

 

Never ever use hype rating as an indication of how a game is nor how hyped it is.

 

I think every now and then, rather than sorting the game on this site, and updating outdated info on existing game, the guy in charge just jacks up the hype on games that really are hyped right now, sending them to the top, before they all mysteriously sink below aged and dated games with no hype.

 

Quizzical

Quite some time ago, there was the issue that the top rated games on this site were generally below 7/10.  In order to make the ratings look "right", they adjusted things upwards.  If you add 2 points to every game's rating, then the top games would be between 8/10 and 9/10, which seems reasonable.  But then if a game gets a 9/10 briefly when only the game's big fans have voted, then it displays as 11/10, which just seems wrong.

So what the site did was to say, if the highest rated game has a rating of x, then we'll add 5 - x/2 to every game's score.  So if the highest real rating of any game is 7/10, then they'll add 1.5 to every game's score, so that the top game is now 8.5/10, which seems reasonable.

Now suppose that the game you're watching is rated at 6/10, and the highest rated game is 7/10.  So they add 1.5 to all games' scores, and now your game displays as 7.5/10.  But suppose that some new game releases, and at first, only fans of the game rate it.  And they're excited and rate it highly because it's the shiny new thing.  So that game gets rated 8/10 when it first displays.  Now the boost to every game's score is only 1 point, not 1.5.  So the game you were watching now displays as 7/10 rather than 7.5/10.  Meanwhile, it's real underlying score of 6/10 isn't changed.

I'm not sure if that's the exact formula they use.  But it's something along those lines.  And what are the new games that start with a really high rating?  It was TERA recently, and now today, it's Diablo 3.