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#1  Edited By andrebetoche
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@lembu90: I wrote available on BOTH 360 and PS3. Mainline Persona series is NOT on 360.

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#2  Edited By andrebetoche
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I mean the games that were available on both X360 and PS3 but not PC. The most notable ones that I personally know of are Red Dead Redemption, Condemned 2: Bloodshot, The Darkness and Battlefield: Bad Company.

Any other such games?

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#3  Edited By andrebetoche
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Another example:

"Valve Has Removed Almost 200 Games From Steam And Here's Why"

It is as if you're assuming we are all 10 year olds. What's the point of the "and here's why" part?! How is this even remotely ok when it comes to writing?!

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#4  Edited By andrebetoche
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"Call Of Duty: WW2 Features These Two NFL Players"

Would you please, PLEASE, stop using redundant words like "these", "this", etc. in the titles. Extremely amateurish.

They are classic click-bait words that add zero information and have zero purpose. That title up there would still make sense without "these" and would not be a click-bait as a plus.

I haven't opened the article on purpose, because of the click-bait title, but just a guess, it was written by eddie.

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#5  Edited By andrebetoche
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@justinhaywald: I want to see you defending this: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-patch-out-now-heres-what-/1100-6449299/

Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Patch Out Now, Here's What It Does

it's unclear what exactly this newest patch does.

Can you do it with a straight face?

Do you know what I think? I think that nowadays gamepot knowingly and deliberately posts deceptive titles and simply have zero respect for their readers. After all, it's all about clicks. Integrity can go suck a lollipop.

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#6  Edited By andrebetoche
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I was about to post the exact same thing. This is now beyond the level of pathetic. This is very, VERY insulting actually. Even IGN doesn't use such outrageously deceptive titles.

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#7  Edited By andrebetoche
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I see that you STILL have not fixed this issue even though I first reported it more than 2 years ago. I got no response though.

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/game-search-sorting-issues-31460269/

I reported it again and this time one of your staff noticed it but nothing came of it in the end.

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/game-search-results-sorting-issues-still-buggy-31993634/

I even provided screenshots and even a video.

Here is another example:

http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/?review_filter_type%5Bplatform%5D=19&review_filter_type%5Bgenre%5D=46&review_filter_type%5BtimeFrame%5D=4&review_filter_type%5BstartDate%5D=1%2F01%2F2010&review_filter_type%5BendDate%5D=3%2F15%2F2017&review_filter_type%5BminRating%5D=6&review_filter_type%5Btheme%5D=&review_filter_type%5Bregion%5D=&___review_filter_type%5Bpublishers%5D=&___review_filter_type%5Bdevelopers%5D=&review_filter_type%5Bletter%5D=&sort=gs_score_desc

Make sure that the list is sorted by score. Just go to the bottom of the first page, take note of the games shown and refresh a few times. You'll see that the games change.

Is it that hard to fix this? You simply need to add a logic to sorting where if more than one game have the same score, the algorithm should look for a secondary data point like release dates.

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EDIT: Actually, it seems the sorting drop-down button itself is bugged too. It doesn't take effect until the "Refresh List" button is clicked.

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Oh, boy. It's really bad when IGN's article title is not a click-bait and gamespot's is.

GameSpot:

Iceland Isn't in FIFA 17 Despite Incredible Euro 2016 Run and Here's Why

The tiny nation made a memorable run at the tournament, but the team won't be in the newest FIFA game.

IGN:

Iceland Not in FIFA 17 Due to Low Offer by EA

Iceland's football association says the offer by EA was not enough.

Now tell me it isn't so.

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#9  Edited By andrebetoche
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@justinhaywald said:

Now, before I go to far into the weeds, I do want to make a distinction between clickbait headlines and headlines that have a curiosity gap.

I don't care what the definition is. To me, the writer is clearly trying to bait clicks with such titles.

I care about some ubi titles and I'd like to read more details, if they are the ones I care about, but the title is vague and is trying to force me to click. I wouldn't like to needlessly waste time by opening an article that is about things I don't care about.

When JFK was shot, newspaper titles weren't "some very important government official dead". They usually read "KENNEDY DEAD". Clear and informative. They had integrity back then.

I don't know what you do, but you need to get Ed under control. I avoid his possible articles like a plague, which actually aren't that hard to recognize, given his insulting-to-intellect titles. I'm sorry, but that's how I see it.

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#10  Edited By andrebetoche
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@Macutchi said:

@andrebetoche: so hang on, just to confirm, you are so irritated by the use of the word 'these' in an article title that you've felt the need to create a thread in the feedback forum to complain about it? and the inclusion of the word 'these' makes it a 'click bait' article?

No, I meant that using those words with an already click-baity title makes it even worse. I edited my comment to reflect that.