Hi... There seems to be a unintentioanl funneling of content; By that I mean that I can only find videos which are great(just think how funny it would be to find the crappy ones too), but I like the articles and I don't mind podcasts, they are very convenient to listen to at work.
Would it be possible to add more variety to the media used for your content? At the moment I have a very hard time finding the Articles that I liked in the past, besides making the media more easily find-able will give you accurate feedback on what people prefer.
I don't know if it would be possible, but could you add a function which highlights censored words in a post once you make it or while you're typing it? It's annoying when you write a huge load of text on your thoughts on an article only to see the word 'pending' and knowing no-one can read what you spent the past half an hour or more typing, only then to have to sift through and change what may be considered an offensive word, when you don't actually know if it is. Words like 'idiot' strike me as one of the lowest forms of an insult that even 3 or 4 year olds may use, but last I checked it's not allowed on news articles, so it makes finding censored words unfathomably hard to find. The reason I ask is sometimes I've made posts that are never put through, and when I've put in the time to post my thoughts, that's annoying.
So to keep it concise, maybe a red highlight on words considered 'swears' that would cause a pending mark would be useful so we can change our wording ourselves and publish our thoughts on news articles more quickly, or avoid running the risk of no changes being made and our thoughts never getting through.
Make user reviews more obvious for the casual eye. There used to be a table on the right showing off the latest or top voted user reviews (iirc), right on the main review page, on the old site. That was good, bring that back.
@commonfate: There's no way to remove your own signature atm - mods/admins can do so (albeit not their own). The functionality is there (alongside avatar/profile image/banner removal) it's just not available to remove your own sig/banner/etc at this point in time.
@DamnILoveGames: Unfortunately a completely separate livefyre team handles that stuff on articles atm, and it even filters some things that aren't actually on the filter list to my knowledge, so there's certainly problems with it - that said, highlighting the words would undermine the filter completely, making censor bypassing a joke, including the words that are rightfully blocked.
I would like a better way to get to the older games. We used to be able to go to the game list and chose type of game the the first letter in the name of game and find it really quick which included every thing about the game from forums to walk through.
On some games (usually multiplats for some reason) it works just fine, but with others (usually PS3/PS4 exclusives) the green bar saying 'you are now following this game' pops up, but nothing happens. As soon as I refresh the page, the button just goes back to '+Follow' instead of 'Following'. This is really frustrating since my favorite thing about this site used to be having all my gaming news in one place.
I would like to see some sort of advanced search that uses the "Genre" of the PC game.
It used to be, you could pick "Simulation" and then I believe further narrow or sort results by combat or historical or naval etc..
If these features are still on the site I can find them and I thought they were very useful.
Thanks - jg1234
This still exists, you just have to go to the main '(new) games' page that is linked on the top navbar. Once you're on that page it's on the right hand side, just set the genres drop-down to whatever you're looking for and the platform to whatever platform you're looking at as well. As for historical/etc, they come under the themes drop-down that is also on the same panel. There's also region, release date, starting letter of title, created by (top one is publisher, bottom one is developer - unfortunately this isn't clear - this is the opposite way round to how the individual game pages list them) and score related search options.
A search function for the forum, please! It's not a new feature, but the current search isn't working. There is a separate thread for this issue but I thought it would be nice if this was added to the list. I know this thread is mainly about new features, but as I also see features to be fixed in the list, I thought it would be a good idea to add this issue. Thanks!
Gamespot Leaderboards. Leaderboards for users with the most post,most followers,most blogs, most reviews,and highest levels & most emblems (if they return). Though it would be nice if you could list all users place, I know it might be trick since there are so many users, so you could just show the top 15-20. You should also get a special emblem for holding a spot on the leaderboard.
Gamespot should solve the Internal 500 error thing & allow users to edit the reviews or post new reviews. Plus it would be nice to get the user ID I created which was "RDx_XacT" instead of "rdx_xact" as how it shows on my profile. Thanks.
Allow download of videos, especially those that don't work on the site anymore ever since the big update that broke functionality.
Or if that's pushing it, would it be too much just to upload/link/provide individually requested videos? Especially since there aren't too many requests that would overwhelm the staff right now.
When the new site launched I didn't really mind their removal, but now? There are far too many conversations that get misunderstood or sarcastic posts that can't be detected as such, when using a simple emoticon would've made things much clearer. It's already hard to relay your tone or meaning correctly over the internet, and emoticons go a long way in helping this communication. I believe that bringing them back would make a big difference.
When the new site launched I didn't really mind their removal, but now? There are far too many conversations that get misunderstood or sarcastic posts that can't be detected as such, when using a simple emoticon would've made things much clearer. It's already hard to relay your tone or meaning correctly over the internet, and emoticons go a long way in helping this communication. I believe that bringing them back would make a big difference.
Is it possible to add an option for horizontal scrolling for browsing the comments on this site in addition to vertical scrolling. It might make it easier for users. Just a thought.
Please remove the feature that starts a countdown to jump from the current video to the next.
As an old member, I think right now, what annoys me the most, is after watching a video, there's a countdown to the next video. I have no use for it, no interest in it and it has never shown me anything I've ever wanted to see.
It has however taken me away from reading the comments for a video I have just watched. Which is annoying.
So, please remove the feature. Or replace it with a feature, where I actively have to press something to go there.
I really don't like the way GameSpot presents the updates in my personal feed. There is surely more improvements can be done here in terms of design to separate out the updates from one another and finally group similar updates if multiple games are having the same update. GameSpot of of 2004 I remember used to have those features.
When the new site launched I didn't really mind their removal, but now? There are far too many conversations that get misunderstood or sarcastic posts that can't be detected as such, when using a simple emoticon would've made things much clearer. It's already hard to relay your tone or meaning correctly over the internet, and emoticons go a long way in helping this communication. I believe that bringing them back would make a big difference.
When it comes to promoting shows like The Lobby and Now Playing, I think a forum for GameSpot content could be a really good way to get the community more active and more invested in the site's personalities. I know that might seem unnecessary considering all of those videos have comments at the bottom, but they don't usually get much activity - and even when they do, a comments section doesn't really lend itself to focused, ongoing discussions in the way that a dedicated section on the forums would.
It seems a little crazy to me that events like Danny's Half-Life stream, didn't get more attention in the forums (unless they did and I missed it, which is totally possible). If there was an area dedicated to things like that, I think GameSpot would have an easier time getting users to be more dedicated to the site. It seems like GameSpot wants to start being more personality-driven, and I think a big part of that is having the community feel a greater sense of attachment toward the personalities.
i want the mods or the admins to read this, don't let anyone below 25 posts make threads. Because there have just been so many spambots lately
+1
Edit: Although I think 10 would be a better number.
Yeah it was the number that popped into mind, because you can't post more than 5 a day before you have reached 25 posts. So it would make sense that way and just be careful that bots don't spam threads either
i want the mods or the admins to read this, don't let anyone below 25 posts make threads. Because there have just been so many spambots lately
+1
Edit: Although I think 10 would be a better number.
Yeah it was the number that popped into mind, because you can't post more than 5 a day before you have reached 25 posts. So it would make sense that way and just be careful that bots don't spam threads either
You gotta consider new users who create accounts to ask about a game or a hardware problem, 25 would be a bit much. But yeah there's been too much spam lately, especially in the GD board.
How about a board where we can actually question some of our moderations, or locked threads. Anything, instead of this PM'ing nonsense.
I'm not much of a complainer on this site, but I dislike the fact that the community is forced to just take punishments or whatever else mods throw at them these days, without being able to argue it.
And like I said, that PM system is garbage. Bring back Ask The Mods. At least give us the tiniest sense of a community that isn't completely separated from the staff.
How about a board where we can actually question some of our moderations, or locked threads. Anything, instead of this PM'ing nonsense.
I'm not much of a complainer on this site, but I dislike the fact that the community is forced to just take punishments or whatever else mods throw at them these days, without being able to argue it.
And like I said, that PM system is garbage. Bring back Ask The Mods. At least give us the tiniest sense of a community that isn't completely separated from the staff.
Level Rewards. When levels return, have rewards be unlock when hitting a certain level. These are not physical prizes or anything like that, just more flexibly for what the user can do. So say if a user hits level 14, the reward they'll get is the ability to post 3 times in a row instead of 2. Have there be more variety in these rewards too and have them scatter around the levels. This will encourage users to use the site more often. Mods should revoked these rewards if abused though or as an alternate punishment instead of being suspended or ban.
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