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HERE ARE THE RESULTS OF THIS COMPETITION. I have read ALL the entries!
A lot of entries mentioned things which have generally been discussed before or are in the pipeline. They include:
User Profiles
Polls
Walkthroughs and Game Guides
Highest Scores
Who is currently posting
Splash Plastic (which is too expensive for us to do)
Online Reddies
Logos and Ringtones (see UKphonetones.com)
Genre search for games
Tell a Friend.
It just goes to show how busy we are that we are unable to get many of the above into place. But hey, expenditure is controlled by income (hint).
I liked Darkness' idea about tutorials, and Mantis made the suggestion to have a "Gamesmaster" of the forums based on competitions for high scores.
Cookie Monster wants people to be able to promote their website (we already offer this for Freeola customers) and he also suggests that we have an office pet which is monitored with a web cam (brilliant).
Monkey_with_Attitude suggests a "most played games of the week" counter on UKgames.com.
Freak of the Dark says our logo should "move or something".
Turbonutter reckons we should run Flash games and this is supported by Shaneo who says we should run SR Arena and give prizes to the best players. Turbonutter also tells us that we are lacking on PC game specification of the type you find on the back of the box and Swish extends this to a link under each title.
CDouch is a "man of a thousand ideas", mostly on the button too. He lists: Information on gaming from around the world, more mini sites like UKgt3, kids corner, celebrity visits and better organised release info including more information on unreleased games (to name but a few of his suggestions).
The rules (written by Kendozod) state "exciting and would attract a lot of visitors".
THE WINNERS ARE:
CDouch for MORE INFORMATION ON UNRELEASED GAMES.
Turbonutter for FLASH GAMES.
Many thanks for all of your participation and, for the time being, I promise not to confuse the issue by holding any other similar competition.
All the obove written by Tony (The Judge)
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Below are the original rules written by Kendozod
New Site Features.
Tony has let me loose to post a new and exciting competition!
So here goes:
This competition is for all of you to think up new features for our websites. We already have cheats, clips, demos, discussions etc but are there other features you would like us to add?
The aim here is for the feature to be low admin maintenance and low in cost (obviously!) but be exciting and would attract lots of visitors.
They can be fun, educational, business, reference, silly, cool - anything as long as they NOT sexual or violent in nature.
This competition is open for 1 month and the best ideas that we USE will win a game as part of GAMEADAY. If no ideas are used then I will pick 1 winner that I deem the best.
CLOSING DATE: 8th July 2001
So get thinking and posting. Remember, your suggestions could make a difference!
A lot of entries mentioned things which have generally been discussed before or are in the pipeline. They include:
User Profiles
Polls
Walkthroughs and Game Guides
Highest Scores
Who is currently posting
Splash Plastic (which is too expensive for us to do)
Online Reddies
Logos and Ringtones (see UKphonetones.com)
Genre search for games
Tell a Friend.
It just goes to show how busy we are that we are unable to get many of the above into place. But hey, expenditure is controlled by income (hint).
I liked Darkness' idea about tutorials, and Mantis made the suggestion to have a "Gamesmaster" of the forums based on competitions for high scores.
Cookie Monster wants people to be able to promote their website (we already offer this for Freeola customers) and he also suggests that we have an office pet which is monitored with a web cam (brilliant).
Monkey_with_Attitude suggests a "most played games of the week" counter on UKgames.com.
Freak of the Dark says our logo should "move or something".
Turbonutter reckons we should run Flash games and this is supported by Shaneo who says we should run SR Arena and give prizes to the best players. Turbonutter also tells us that we are lacking on PC game specification of the type you find on the back of the box and Swish extends this to a link under each title.
CDouch is a "man of a thousand ideas", mostly on the button too. He lists: Information on gaming from around the world, more mini sites like UKgt3, kids corner, celebrity visits and better organised release info including more information on unreleased games (to name but a few of his suggestions).
The rules (written by Kendozod) state "exciting and would attract a lot of visitors".
THE WINNERS ARE:
CDouch for MORE INFORMATION ON UNRELEASED GAMES.
Turbonutter for FLASH GAMES.
Many thanks for all of your participation and, for the time being, I promise not to confuse the issue by holding any other similar competition.
All the obove written by Tony (The Judge)
************
Below are the original rules written by Kendozod
New Site Features.
Tony has let me loose to post a new and exciting competition!
So here goes:
This competition is for all of you to think up new features for our websites. We already have cheats, clips, demos, discussions etc but are there other features you would like us to add?
The aim here is for the feature to be low admin maintenance and low in cost (obviously!) but be exciting and would attract lots of visitors.
They can be fun, educational, business, reference, silly, cool - anything as long as they NOT sexual or violent in nature.
This competition is open for 1 month and the best ideas that we USE will win a game as part of GAMEADAY. If no ideas are used then I will pick 1 winner that I deem the best.
CLOSING DATE: 8th July 2001
So get thinking and posting. Remember, your suggestions could make a difference!
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In the search engine above (near the top of the page) you should extend it to search the ukchatforums.com threads as well.
No Im not saying that every post should show up on the search. Just the name of the thread if it has something to do with what you serched for.
For example:
You want to get the game 'Oni'. You type Oni into the search box, and aswell as the game that appears from the search, the Oni open forum also shows up, as well as any other thread about Oni. This would give the buyer confidence that he is spending his money well - by being able to see exactly what other buyers think of the game.
Another pro from this is that people who dont know about GAD or the forums, would now beable to. They'd go to ukreviews.com to check a review, see the link to the forum part of what they searched for, check it out, and think 'whoa, this is good', and then they'd sign up oh just snipe to see what happened and what others thought.
This wouldn't just work for newcomers either. Say if one of us had posted a thread quite a long time ago, and wanted to add something new to it, that had just popped up, or wanted to give the url to others so they could see it, but unforunatley its gone so far back that you cant find it. Well you just type in the name of the thread, search, and it will pop up, along with any other games that resemble what the thread was called.
The Forum Search.
Would this be possible?
No Im not saying that every post should show up on the search. Just the name of the thread if it has something to do with what you serched for.
For example:
You want to get the game 'Oni'. You type Oni into the search box, and aswell as the game that appears from the search, the Oni open forum also shows up, as well as any other thread about Oni. This would give the buyer confidence that he is spending his money well - by being able to see exactly what other buyers think of the game.
Another pro from this is that people who dont know about GAD or the forums, would now beable to. They'd go to ukreviews.com to check a review, see the link to the forum part of what they searched for, check it out, and think 'whoa, this is good', and then they'd sign up oh just snipe to see what happened and what others thought.
This wouldn't just work for newcomers either. Say if one of us had posted a thread quite a long time ago, and wanted to add something new to it, that had just popped up, or wanted to give the url to others so they could see it, but unforunatley its gone so far back that you cant find it. Well you just type in the name of the thread, search, and it will pop up, along with any other games that resemble what the thread was called.
The Forum Search.
Would this be possible?
To extend from turbonutters idea:
When the page loads up with the game you choose, with the table saying 'PS2 - Name of Game - Stock - Price - Code' etc. Then underneath that you have 'Review' and 'Discuss' and stuff. Next to them you should have 'Specs' so that you can see what system requirements you need and how many player etc.
This baffles me lots. And I offen have to go out to the shops to take a look on the back of the box to find out.
My idea will decrease the amount of hassle when people call up and say 'the game doesn't work on my pc' because the PC is not good enough to play it or 'I thought this was a two player' when it was just a one player, and they demand a refund. It would also mean that people like me would know straight away if the game will work on my averagly specced' pc.
This would really help.
When the page loads up with the game you choose, with the table saying 'PS2 - Name of Game - Stock - Price - Code' etc. Then underneath that you have 'Review' and 'Discuss' and stuff. Next to them you should have 'Specs' so that you can see what system requirements you need and how many player etc.
This baffles me lots. And I offen have to go out to the shops to take a look on the back of the box to find out.
My idea will decrease the amount of hassle when people call up and say 'the game doesn't work on my pc' because the PC is not good enough to play it or 'I thought this was a two player' when it was just a one player, and they demand a refund. It would also mean that people like me would know straight away if the game will work on my averagly specced' pc.
This would really help.
and not every product like Goldeneye 64 is unreviewable or you cant view its info and its pic!
Here's a serious idea:
The one thing that deterred me from buying from SR in the past was not being able to look at the box. I'm not talking about looking at the pretty pictures and reading the obscenely biased blurb, I have magazines for that. I mean looking at the requirements. For example:
PC: Processor speed, HDD space, RAM, peripherals, graphics cards etc.
PS: Memory card blocks, no. of players, multi-tap support etc.
PS2: No. of players, memory card space, analog support etc.
Do you think this would be possible?
The one thing that deterred me from buying from SR in the past was not being able to look at the box. I'm not talking about looking at the pretty pictures and reading the obscenely biased blurb, I have magazines for that. I mean looking at the requirements. For example:
PC: Processor speed, HDD space, RAM, peripherals, graphics cards etc.
PS: Memory card blocks, no. of players, multi-tap support etc.
PS2: No. of players, memory card space, analog support etc.
Do you think this would be possible?
Yeah but I dont think you see the point about what he is trying to say.
GameFaqs why go there when you would be able to stay here on SR
GameFaqs why go there when you would be able to stay here on SR
That is a good site! I know about that!
Rik-Rik wrote:
Oh and I like the idea of Walkthrough's
> "below". Although GameFaq's have all the walkthrough's I
> need and it would take up a lot of web space
It wasnt my idea and I am glad someone agrees with me..well partly.
Gamefaq's???
It would make SR the ultimate gaming website if they included the walkthru's idea.
It would be a great addition to GAD or something else, it would be fun and could attract lots more members.!
Oh and I like the idea of Walkthrough's
> "below". Although GameFaq's have all the walkthrough's I
> need and it would take up a lot of web space
It wasnt my idea and I am glad someone agrees with me..well partly.
Gamefaq's???
It would make SR the ultimate gaming website if they included the walkthru's idea.
It would be a great addition to GAD or something else, it would be fun and could attract lots more members.!
I strongly suggest a mindless drivel forum as a result of this conversation;
"Please don't promote the idea of people putting mindless drivel on topics in the chat Bonus. I understand that you want to keep it out of the prime but as I am a newbie, by the fact that I don't post mindless drivel, my serious topics have to go in here (chat). Promoting some people to speak complete rubbish is not neccesary, it happens anyway and it is damn annoying"
"Then where do you suggest we pedal our mindless drivel then?" comes the reply from someone else.
Point made.
"Please don't promote the idea of people putting mindless drivel on topics in the chat Bonus. I understand that you want to keep it out of the prime but as I am a newbie, by the fact that I don't post mindless drivel, my serious topics have to go in here (chat). Promoting some people to speak complete rubbish is not neccesary, it happens anyway and it is damn annoying"
"Then where do you suggest we pedal our mindless drivel then?" comes the reply from someone else.
Point made.
Monkey_With_Attitude wrote:
> On your products when they are reviewed, how about giving the option
> to the writer to select a few options from a box such
> as:
Product Quality = Very good (here they select out of 4
> possible anwsers ranging from bad to exellent)
and more
> catorgorys such as ease of use etc, depending on the product at
> hand.
This will then sum up their review and give the person
> reading it a better overall opinion of the product.
You could laso do this for hardware etc that you cannot review, so it is like a mini review.
> On your products when they are reviewed, how about giving the option
> to the writer to select a few options from a box such
> as:
Product Quality = Very good (here they select out of 4
> possible anwsers ranging from bad to exellent)
and more
> catorgorys such as ease of use etc, depending on the product at
> hand.
This will then sum up their review and give the person
> reading it a better overall opinion of the product.
You could laso do this for hardware etc that you cannot review, so it is like a mini review.
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