Looks like they didn't make you change your scores. They just changed them for you. How delightful. So you say a game is 8.5 and they round to 8. Lovely! Personally I use a 100 point scale and refuse to use anything else. Not too many options for me on these new-fangled gaming websites, so I just mostly ignore their rating features now and just use a spreadsheet, where I have control of my scores, not some web designer.

As someone who was around for the last site change where they stopped allowing you to rate in decimals and stopped rating games after that, I saw this coming years ago. If a site isn't consistent in its feature set and feature behavior--if it constantly changes things around every few years--one shouldn't really enter data into those features one wants to keep forever, since they can simply remove it at any time. I encourage people to manage data they find important offline. It's the only way to be safe.

They seem to be gradually taking away more and more features from the site which are user-centric. Originally you were able to do all that and rate games whatever you wanted--from 9.4 to 6.2 to 3.2, all were available. Then they took away your freedom in that respect and just boiled it down to 9 or 7 or 5, etc but you still had at least a decent list system which you could use to sort your games in specific and helpful ways like by release date or the like. Now of course that is gone as well. Perhaps they felt it was too "databasey" and "stuffy" for the "KOOL, sleek" new blog style they wanted to go for. Now you have the KOOL new "STACK" system where you get some MADD STACKS of games which you can do literally nothing with. HIP.

@s_h_a_d_o:

Probably because they don't view what you're following as incredibly important to you, so they don't think you'll mind much if it's temporarily lost in the shuffle. They figure you'll just build it back up eventually.

You guys have to stop using a website you have no control over to store important lists and ratings of games on. You can't trust "THE CLOUD." You have to use something consistent like a database or Excel file stored on your computer where no one can one day destroy it or alter it besides you.

Thank God (and GameSpot), I've been waiting since the new system came out to be able to review games with the .5 increments. Glad to hear it's coming soon. :D

Ryo_Kensen

Oh yes! Thank you all for forcing us to rate games by the more in depth and detailed .5 system. We certainly couldn't do that before! We're such a priviledged populace to be at the beck and call of our executive overlords, you corporate shill.