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#1 Mystikef
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Multiplatform... I think that's the key on the new releases page. I'm pretty sure the new releases page is only showing platform identifiers for the 2nd and subsequent platforms of a multiplatform release; the first platform is covered by the box art (if any) and the yellow title link. The reviews page never identifies a platform explicitly because reviews are by game *and* platform, so game reviews are not lumped together across platforms. Your screen shot actually shows an example of that. Just quickly double checking those pages, I could not find any box art that disagreed with the title link, platform-wise. If you can hover over a link and see the URL, you can tell what platform is involved if you aren't sure. I don't think this is a technical support issue. If you want to suggest that platforms get spelled out in plain text on the page or something, I'm sure it will fit right in over in the Enhancements & Feedback forum.

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I am not pointing out link functionality as much as I a pointing out the terrible and incosistent user interface. These pages used to have color-coded platform text links after every single title. As a user, that interface made it possible to quickly scan these lists of games and see what platform(s) each titleis beingreleased for, as well as being able to quickly access that platform page.

If this was actually an interface design choice, it is terrible. You stillhave thoselinks occasionally... but you are substituting tiny little box-art pictures for one of those links. This makes it impossible to quickly scan the page for titles for particular platforms, and still leaves ZERO information about platform for titles without boxart, or boxart without platform info.

GameSpot USED TO SHOW ALL PLATFORM INFO WITH DIRECT PLATFORM LINKS after every single title. I put thispage in the Technical Issue forum because I couldn't imagine removing that easy-to-use-interface for this jumbled messwould actual be someone's choice. I figured it MUST be a technical issue.

Think about scanning the reviews pages with all of the color-coded platform links following the title. You could QUICKLY, EASILY, and ACCURATELY see exactly what reviews were coming out for any and all platforms that you own -as well as the ones you don't. You could then quickly jump to the appropriate pages. Trying to look at the incomplete boxart (1/2 inch tall low-res images where you can't actually read most writing) as a guide for platform information is just about the worst interface you could possible create. Especially when the system is in palce for the color-codedtext-link labels, AND the website actually used to use that system.

Sorry, but you are defending a completely inferior interface, compared to what this very website used to offer - and still has the set-up to use.

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#2 Mystikef
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Someone at GameSpot needs to lay off the bottle. You used to label titles of games in your REVIEW and COMING SOON sections with clickable platform info (ie PS3, XBOX 360, WII as individual links). Now all you have is missing info, wrong info, and an incosistent mess. What gives? I have taken a couple screenshots to demonstrate.

Screenshot-1 COMING SOON section

So this first screenshot shows:

Uncharted 2 - PS3 Box Art, but no PS3 platform label after the game.

Brutal Legends shows Xbox 360 Box Art, but only a PS3 text platform label.

Magna Carta 2 - no text platform label.

NBA 2K10 -NO Box Art or text platform information at all.

And finally, Tropico 3 with Games for Windows Boxart, but only an XBOX 360 text label.

Screenshot-2  REVIEWS section

This next screenshot shows the Reviews section with NO TEXTPLATFORM LABELS what-so-ever. One game doesn't have boxart either, so you can't tell at all what platform it is for without clicking the link. And since your boxart can't be trusted anyway,it leavesplatform information as a guessing game

I think it is incredibly helpful knowing what platform(s) a game is being released for, and then being able to go to the proper page for that game. Your website design makes that nearly impossible. Either that,or one of your webguysisreally dropping the ball.

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#3 Mystikef
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[QUOTE="usmcjdk6"][QUOTE="All_that_is_Man"][QUOTE="usmcjdk6"]

Proof?

Krigon

Just go read the terms of service, you will see that they are there

Burden of proof isn't on me kiddy. Retrieve the proof that 95% of the above is also on Xbox Live or go back to moo-ing.

Why does he have to prove anything to you. He told you where to go and get the info. Now if you want to do it is up to you.

That's not how it works. You make a claim... you should be able to back it up... at the very least with a link, if not posting the actual information that you are making.

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#4 Mystikef
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Google,Yahoo, and MSN and now Facebook have been doing this for years..nothing new.Burning_Sun

Google has been monitoring you voice comunications? Google has been re-selling your user created content? Did you even read the article?

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#5 Mystikef
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I am having fun with GTA IV, but this game is WAY over-hyped and WAY over-rated. A 9.0 seems fine.

Most of the reviewers, like scared little idiots, even said things like: "This game is by no means perfect, but..."

If this were the first GTA game, it would deserve a 10. Bein g that it is the FOURTH in a series, all the clunky movement, controls, and other mino defects should have been ironed out by now. And they aren't.

These game reviewers are scared that the little whiny kids in the forums would cry like little girls if they didn't give their beloved GTA a perfect score. Sellouts.

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#6 Mystikef
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OK i found this old pic on my pc but it aint great quality but it should prove i have a 360. I would take a recent one but i cant, i just want all this to stop please

PS_John

Dude... your gamesrscore is ZERO, which means you have never played this or any other 360. Give up already. You took this photo at a friends house. Where's your PS3 in this picture?

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#7 Mystikef
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[QUOTE="EstralS"]In other words, people that have completed al of their education choose PS3 ove 360.Zoso-8

Winner.

Since the guy you just quoted as "winner" completely misunderstood the article and has his facts backwards... that might make you the opposite of a winner, don't you think?

The IGN CORRECTION article linked in my original post shows that the 360 is used significantly more often by all gamers ages 10 and up. 10 and up includes educated people, since the correction states that the 360 also won the 27+ category by a mile.

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[QUOTE="Mystikef"][QUOTE="travt-down"]

ni

That's the incorrect chart. Swap the 360 and PS3 numbers in the 27+ part and then its right. PS3 in last.

travt-down

Yep. Exactly what the "correction" article says. The numbers were mistakenly switched, and the 360 actually has the nearly 52% in the 27+ department.

The 11.98 days played per month for the 27+ Wii also doesnt work out correctly. You cant play fewer days, fewer times per day, and fewer minutes per session than everyone else and still come in second.

I don't know. It would have been nice for IGN to remake the chart with the correct numbers in the correct places instead of just a written retraction on the error.

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ni

That's the incorrect chart. Swap the 360 and PS3 numbers in the 27+ part and then its right. PS3 in last.

travt-down

Yep. Exactly what the "correction" article says. The numbers were mistakenly switched, and the 360 actually has the nearly 52% in the 27+ department.

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#10 Mystikef
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In other words, people that have completed al of their education choose PS3 ove 360.EstralS

Have you completed your education? Your reading skills seem to be a bit off. The 360 is significantly used more frequently by everyone 10 and older according to the most reliable tracking company on the planet. I think "10 and older" includes educated people.