EA's Dungeon Keeper Ratings Below a 5 Go To Email Black Hole 367
fplatten writes "I would definitely call this unethical manipulation of the ratings system: the Worst Company in America, EA is routing all ratings made in game of 1 to 4 stars as an email that is sent to EA, but all 5 star ratings are routed to the Google Play store, where its rating is currently 4.3 out of 5."
I can't wait for the next EA game... (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot takes advise from EA (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Slashdot takes advise from EA (Score:5, Insightful)
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Am I the only one that remembers the community losing it's nut the last time there was a redesign?
I remember that. I still have D2 turned off and use the old Slashdot interface, because D2 is crap and the original version works better. (Ignoring the pagination bug they never fixed to try and force people to D2.) The beta site kills the traditional UI I still use. (To be fair, the beta site finally lets you filter by score and not just "interesting." Too bad you're not allowed to set that as a default.)
I remember when Gawker decided to Gawker-ify a bunch of their sites (essentially making them unreadable
Fraud? (Score:5, Insightful)
Is this not criminal misrepresentation of their product?
Re:Fraud? (Score:5, Interesting)
Actually, since EA is publicly traded, couldn't this count as a material misrepresentation to the stock market?
Re:Fraud? (Score:5, Interesting)
Actually, since EA is publicly traded, couldn't this count as a material misrepresentation to the stock market?
Well, it is still possible to leave a lower rating (hence the average is below 5), you just need to edit the initial 5-star rating. So I imagine they have a defense even if someone tries to pursue that issue
Why can the rating be hijacked, anyway? I am surprised it took so long for someone entrepreneurial to notice that bad ratings can be intercepted to skew the results.
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I installed the game, rated it 1 star with a note about how much of a rip-off the in-game wallet raping is, the uninstalled it. EA is not the only one that can abuse the rating system.
Just let the giant die peacefully (Score:2)
Yet another reason.. (Score:5, Insightful)
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Never rate an app from within the app itself. We all know it's super convienent, but at the same time it's subject to this kind of trickery.
Never mind that it doesn't actually *do* anything. You can only rate apps from Google Play itself, the star rating in EA is a *separate* star rating system, that happens to forward you to Google Play (to rate again) if you clicked 5 stars.
It's sneaky and shit, but not actually a security issue in Play ratings.
Nervy... (Score:2)
It's all the same (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm hardly surprised that EA is doing something mendacious and evil; but it's a trifle gutsy to overtly game Google's rating system.
Meh, one good coercive scam deserves another. I just checked my Google Play app and attempted to rate an app (never had tried before). Lo and behold, rating apps requires Google Plus and all ratings will be linked to one's public profile.
No thanks. EA and Google deserve each other.
Oh, and Dice belongs with them for their plans to destroy this community^Waudience.
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Every site on the internet somehow spawned a series of like-tweet-plus1 buttons, and it's becoming impossible to use even the most basic services without an account now. Many blogs and news sites don't allow comments without some sort of social account. It go so annoying I ended up renting a VM just so I could have somewhere uncontaminated to run my own email, website and personal filelocker.
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Re:It's all the same (Score:4, Insightful)
Allowing anonymous ratings results in rating stuffing. Requiring that an identity be associated with the rating doesn't completely prevent it, of course, but it does reduce it dramatically, especially if the identity in question has a social network, because it makes creating the backstory to substantiate the rating harder.
The social network also facilitates allowing people to easily discover what their friends and acquaintances think of apps, which often provides more information than aggregated ratings by strangers, resulting in a better service.
I'm not saying that you should like it, or agree with it, or change your mind about using it. Just explaining the rationale.
It's related to the reason that so many news sites' comment pages are requiring an identity linkage. Anonymity encourages garbage comments, and requiring people to put their name on what they write makes most of them more thoughtful. Of course this also has the effect of silencing people who have reason to fear that their on-line comments may have negative real-world consequences for them.
There is no perfect solution, but in many contexts requiring an identity for participation seems to improve quality enough that on balance it's a good idea, IMO.
easy technical solution... (Score:3)
I'm sure Google keeps the referrer information for URLs that hit the Play store. Just throw out all the ratings that come through the game.
Slice of the pie... (Score:2)
Oddly, people want Google to do something about this. Unfortunately, some forget that Google gets a percentage of in-app purchases as well, so as long as the app is on the front page of the store and highly rated and can possibly get more eyes into the app being told to "Buy! Spend!", the more likely Google is to reap benefit from it.
Re:Slice of the pie... (Score:5, Insightful)
Short term, yes. But if EA gets away with this, other developers are sure to follow, and the loss of an effective ratings would seriously hurt the play store's reputation - pontentially easily doing enough financial damage in lost business to offset whatever they make from this one game.
Tiny Font (Score:2)
same EA that took a 20% cut from red cross donates (Score:2)
EA is pure evil now days.
is common practice (Score:3)
I see this all the time from service industries, sellers on Amazon marketplace, conference speakers...
"If you think we did well, please write a positive review. If you think we did poorly, please let us know so we can improve our service."
It seems ubiquitous. I've always thought it slimy.
Hate the beta protests but.... (Score:3, Interesting)
I have seen the Beta a few days ago just to see what the protect was about, if that goes live, Slashdot is dead.
I have been on here since the 1990's, the comments is the main thing that makes this place worth coming to. Even the political stuff. They give great information on the topic even finding things the original articles had wrong or just left out and gives virtually every side of a story. One of the few sites where you can so a political story and get both the left and right views of it with both extremist sides getting called out for that crap and the misconceptions on both sides corrected and the trolls flat out just modded out. Had times where I would read a 10 minute article and then over 2 hours of comments giving more information on it and flat out picking it apart in every possible way.
With beta, the comments section is marginalized and hard to really keep organized and all the added stuff eat up way too much space. The people who made it have no clue what the appeal of this site is and their setup will destroy that. If I wanted what they are pushing, I would got to CNET news. If it goes live, slashdot is dead and we will have to find a new place and it will be hard to find one as good as this one was.
EA has apparently 'replied' w/ Official Statement (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2451671,00.asp
such BS...
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Re:Extra apostrophes (Score:4, Informative)
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Actually, what's going on here is best explained by Dave Barry's observation that, in modern American English, the main use of the apostrophe is to warn the reader that there's an "s" coming up soon.
Once you understand that change in American orthography, it all becomes clear ...
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That's simplistic.
It's also used to warn that there might be a "g" missin' and it was intentional
Re:Works for Slashdot as well... (Score:5, Insightful)
How do you know it's the admins doing that? I can't remember having the ability to see which users mod a given post.
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I've noticed that Slashdot admins have been using their unlimited mod points to deep-six anti-Beta posts into moderation oblivion.
Thank god.
Now maybe we can talk about something besides the Beta.
Re:Works for Slashdot as well... (Score:5, Funny)
Aha, you must be that "audience" I've been hearing about.
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I am not OP, but I since i think i am part of that audience.
Sure i don't have a 3 digit ID like you, I am fairly recent user, I comment rarely, my comments are barely interesting, but guess what? people like me are the vast majority of the users, most of them don't even have an account. I am happy that slashdot is trying to stay relevant and there are people like me still joining and visiting the site and it has not (yet) become a site of old men complaining about the good ol'days.
if the community is th
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i don't knw about that, 'fuckbeta' seemed to attract attention pretty well. you noticed it, didn't you ? :)
I tried (Score:4, Interesting)
They, of course, did not change, and so I, of course, did not subscribe.
FWIW, my main point/suggestion was:
There is, at present, zero value in subscribing. Slashdot should take a lesson from Ars Technica -- they let you download the entire article, in PDF format, if you are a subscriber. I suggested Slashdot allow subscribers to load an entire comment thread on a single page (to get rid of the annoying duplicate post bug that has been around for more years than I have fingers). They didn't go for it.
So here we are today, with Slashdot providing nothing of value to subscribers, and losing money. Color me shocked.
Boycott begins tomorrow, for at least a week.
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It is not like dice is changing a winning formula, readership is dwindling, they have invested a lot of money, are they supposed to just sit and watch it all collapse?
Obviously then they are not sitting back and watching it happen, they are being proactive by stuffing it into a coffin and burying it before it is dead.
The Fence (Score:2)
Slashdot has always been "information-dense" and reading friendly.
The new layout really does bleach the identity of the site out and make it unenjoyable --- the text doesn't span the page.
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As I said in a post above, if you come for the comments, you should worry they'll mostly disappear after the beta becomes the only available version. I will certainly not use slashdot anymore in that case, and a lot of folks have been expressing the same intention.
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Meh. I've taken a long enough break from slashdot that an entire decimal place of userids has come and gone without my noticing. Another, more eternal break won't be so bad. If they want to destroy comments, and hence destroy the site, I'll be happy to vacate.
Re:Works for Slashdot as well... (Score:4, Informative)
... the anti Beta posts are ruining this site more then that is.
That is the point. The majority of slashdot regulars DO NOT LIKE, NOR WANT BETA. The hope is that if by raising a stink, the powers that be will nix beta. You say you are here for the comments, but beta's comment system is seriously broken. What you come here for, what we all come here for, may no longer exist if beta gets implemented. Check your comments page [slashdot.org] and tell me how your comment was moderated, or how many people replied to it. Quote this text in a reply. Post anonymously. Can't be done in beta. Can't be Slashdot without it.
Re:Works for Slashdot as well... (Score:5, Interesting)
guys seriously I think beta is stupid... but all the anti Beta posts are ruining this site more then that is.
Um, you are aware that disruption is the point of picketing, right? The idea is to get not just the slashdot editors to notice, but the upper management who may be unaware of what's going on.
Disrupting the forums enough that it awakens those with power to actually make decisions is necessary to save slashdot.
If slashdot feeds us non-committed platitudes and corpspeak svada, chances are they do the same upwards too.
Hopefully some paying advertisers will notice soon, and make a phone call. It's not in their interest to sponsor a forum full of unhappy people, whether they're unhappy with DICE or unhappy with the protests.
I hope it won't take too long before someone is forced to swallow a camel and finally admit that they messed up. Then we can move on, get a new usable design made from scratch, and have a thriving community of posters.
But I'd rather see a few days of picketed topics now than to see Slashdot die within a few months. All your guys postings are worth a lot more to me than rational discussions right now and a dead site down the road.
So forgive us for disrupting your comment reading right now. If you can think of any other way to get the top brass to see that the site is broken, and that an overwhelming majority of those who make people come to visit the site won't accept the beta, even with band-aids on it, please let us know. Using the "appropriate" channels have gotten us exactly nowhere, they've ignored feedback for four months.
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I'm glad it took off. They noticed big time. Someone might even lost a promotion/bonus/job upstairs for it.
Re:Works for Slashdot as well... (Score:5, Interesting)
Meanwhile in RealityWorld:
Exec: Wow, those neckbeards really hate change. It's a shame. That site is losing money already, and they're trying to destroy any chance to revitalize it. Guess we should just shut it down instead. Alright boys, let's auction the servers.
That might not be a bad alternative to running the site over a cliff. It could be sold to the users, like WELL.
I still hope for reason to prevail, but if not, I would welcome a user-owned slashdot, and contribute my share.
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Re:Works for Slashdot as well... (Score:5, Interesting)
Ironically, you're destroying /. when you're trying to save it this way.
The point of the distruption is to bring awarness and that has clearly been accomplished. You're continuing distruption however is fueled by a different motive which is to control /. and make /. do what you want them to do. That's a violation of property rights and I'm not going to support it. Let me let you in on a little secret. It's not you're fucking Slashdot! Trying to control them won't work and will cause more harm than good.
Don't ascribe me motifs. You're dead wrong in several respects.
1: Awareness has not been accomplished. There is no indication that the awareness has reached farther than the slashdot editors and the design team. If you have other information, please point to it. The point was not to make visitors aware, but tot make the stink big enough that it would reach those with the ability to cut the crap and make decisions.
2: I have no wish to control slashdot. I have a wish for slashdot to stop the headlong rush towards a cliff that the users won't follow them over. I don't want them to do a Digg.
Slashdot is not too big to fail.
I would welcome changes, but not changes that will drive away a majority of the posters. I do not believe that slashdot could survive that.
When a toddler walks towards a busy road you yell to stop it. If it continues walking because it's obstinate and you're not its mommy, you continue yelling to get the attention of someone in the position to intervene.
Those that advocate doing nothing and please stop shouting that will are the ones thinking only of themselves. I will not stand idle and watch with you.
It is not too late to save the site, but it won't happen through hope.
Because I want to see lots and lots of posts and discussions here over the next fifteen years. Including yours, and others on my foe and freak lists. Slashdot is too important to be allowed Death By Redesign.
The number of sites that died, or are just a shadow of what they were, are plenty. Yahoo Video is another one. It was lead by the same man who now leads technology for Dice Holdings. The vision is strong in that one.
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Ironically, you're destroying /. when you're trying to save it this way.
No, no we aren't. A week's disruption won't destroy slashdot.
The point of the distruption is to bring awarness and that has clearly been accomplished.
No, no it isn't. The point of the disruption is to prevent bad changes to slashdot.
You're continuing distruption however is fueled by a different motive which is to control /. and make /. do what you want them to do. That's a violation of property rights and I'm not going to support it.
Congratulations, you just proved that you are a massive idiot. No one is forcing Dice to do anything in particular. They give us a comment functionality, and we're using it to cause a distruption of their bad plans for our community. If they don't want us leaving these comments, they're free to terminate our accounts. Further, it is the absolute right of every commu
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While I'd long suspected that Slashdot comments were becoming the community for the irretrievably disgruntled to vote up each other's misanthropy, it's a bit anticlimactic that the community's last and most vehement rant is not about privacy, nor those old favourites "the evils of proprietary software", "the terrible patent system", or "if Microsoft did something today, it must be wrong", but the much more disappointing "how dare the website owners redesign their UI".
And so they marched on Washington, picke
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I seem to recall the exact same thing happening to Digg. Does that mean I'll see you on reddit in a few months?
Re:Works for Slashdot as well... (Score:5, Insightful)
UI changes are not something to act disruptive in every fricking thread over, even if they reduce features.
Slashdot has two things, comments and a UI. If you fuck up the UI so that you can't easily comment, it will have zero things. Many of us have dare I say invested a lot of time here, and it's reasonable to attempt to protect that investment by spending more time bitching about the proposed changes. The fact that you're seeing so many messages of complaint is that it's a big deal to many people. If you're not one of them, consider yourself counted, but realize that you're protesting protest which is both bitchy and hypocritical.
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Whenever I can, I take the opportunity to raise awareness to the initiative to limit the influence of money in politics: http://www.wolf-pac.com/ [wolf-pac.com]
As a foreigner (from an American point of view) that's what I'm able to do. You US citizens should go at least one step further, and contact your representatives, or at least sign the petition, or support the movement with money.
So I partly agree with you. Regular politics impact your everyday in a thousand ways, but usually the complexity of the issues hinder choo
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I've been moderating them off-topic, and I'm no admin. We were supposed to have a day of protest, then there was the boycott I think for next week. There is zero point in continuing this childish nonsense.
Yay, sticking it to the man, we feel awesome about ourselves, now start acting like people care about the community instead of pissing on it.
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no, there was stink-raising until the boycott week (starting tomorrow). you can be here next week. and if they push through with "beta", you can be here afterwards.
for all we know, you could be slashdot media executive who registered just now to post this crap :P
also, fuck beta.
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AC being much more prominent, of course.
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I dont' like the changes, but the comments are worse than the changes. I'm glad they are being removed.
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And if you bother to look at the mod points awarded you will see many many -1 levels (much more than normal) and even the GP modded to 0 as off topic
The point is that the topic of this article is corporate overlords HIDING negative comments about their products
Oh the fricking ever-loving irony of it all, a story about some despotic game maker shuttering off negative comments about their products being displayed on a nerd=site where all negative comments about the quality of the site are hidden away as -1 or
I found this on another forum (Score:4, Insightful)
Fuck beta (Score:3, Insightful)
by Indigo (2453) Alter Relationship on Saturday February 08, 2014 @03:08PM (#46198875)
The new Slashdot design is based on Windows 8. That fact alone, even aside from the numerous usability issues, indicates that the new owners have no fucking idea in the world what they've acquired.
Slashdot is a technology site, a geek site, an open source site, a programming site, an Internet / Web advocacy site. But more than that, it is a Linux community site. It lives and dies by its community. That community, by and large, is made up of passionate Linux advocates who can be whipped into a frenzy at the mention of Microsoft, who think Bill Gates is the Great Satan, who sincerely believe in free and open source software, and who implement that passion in their lives, hobbies, and jobs. Sure, not everyone here fits the mold. But that's the core of the community.
As one single data point, I work on simulators in the aerospace segment. We develop and integrate specialized, whole-system, software-only simulators, supporting software development when the hardware has limited availability or hasn't been built yet. Our user community is not large, but includes key technical people at well known organizations. Like others we interface with, our work has gone from Windows and Linux in the beginning, to mostly Linux, plus Windows if we have to. That's how we like it. Linux works for us - it's developer friendly, it's rock solid, it's quite deployable, and it lets us do what we need to do. And a bunch of us come to Slashdot to catch the news on Linux and other geek-worthy subjects, and discuss it with others.
And now the owners, having acquired this rather unique and valuable site, want to make it into Windows fucking 8 - the friendly, cuddly, but unusable Fisher-Price operating system that represents everything we despise? The mind reels. You might as well just make it a SEO parking page for Microsoft.
Seriously, DICE, do not do this thing. I know you don't care about the history, community, or shared values of this site, but this move will destroy them, and take the site with it. It will become a ghost town, abandoned by its residents, only visited by tourists and people that got lost on their way somewhere else.
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I agree to an extent, and 100% for the upcoming gui, but we are not all Linux fanatics.
Linux makes Windows look like a stinking pile of garbage, in some areas.
And Windows makes Linux look like a stinking pile in others.
Linux is perfect for most corporate tasks, imho.
But Linux just makes a poor personal computer OS, for the vast majority of personal computer tasks.
Re: Works for Slashdot as well... (Score:5, Insightful)
displayed on a nerd=site where all negative comments about the quality of the site are hidden away as -1 or off topic
Don't look now, but your negative comment about the quality of this site is currently modded as +4 Interesting.
Ah-Ha! But that only proves the point! You see, they intentionally allowed your comment to be modded up so they can point to it and say, "See, we didn't mod that one into oblivion!" Tricksy Hobbitses!
Oh yeah, and, Fuck Beta.
Re: Works for Slashdot as well... (Score:5, Insightful)
Maybe all the downmods are coming from people like me, who come to /. for the articles and comments, not caring about site design, who owns what and political bullshit implications.
I come here to see informative comments on the subject at hand and read relevant news. What you guys are doing is noise I loathe.
It's like going to a cafe to have a good coffee and overhear interesting conversation about the soft volume music playing, and when owner decides to redesign the cafe's interior, some tards start screaming in my ear whenever a new song is played, just because they don't like the new paintwork.
And when other patrons flag them as vandals, they come up with a "conspiracy theory".
You and your kind are vandals in my opinion. You don't like the new cafe paintwork? Feel free to go to another or create your own. but please, leave me be. Allow me to read the articles and relevant comments.
You're the kid in this video, and I'm the other customer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... [youtube.com]
Re: Works for Slashdot as well... (Score:5, Insightful)
The implication of site design on a site where content is user-generated is whether said content - comments, in Slashdot's case - keeps being generated. The consensus seems to be that Beta is sufficiently bad in this regard to give the deathblow to Slashdot.
Beta is not paintwork. Beta is a set of sound-absorbing elements that stop those conversations from being overheard but look trendy. And, this being Slashdot, the coffee is two weeks old and has already been drunk in at least two other cafes.
The main complaint about Beta is that it makes it difficult to read comments, and almost impossible to read them in their context.
Re:Right: Beat them @ their OWN game (Score:4, Insightful)
bahahaha HOSTS to the rescue! dude, instead of spamming the lists for the past years, it works much better if you actually provide advice such as this. I will try this. thank you.
Re:Right: Beat them @ their OWN game (Score:5, Informative)
Guess either you aren't the real apk, or you indeed have the poor technical understanding you seem infamous for.
for the record, slashdot sets a cookie. it's called betagroup. It appears to contain an integer value between 0 and 99. The poor souls where this number is sufficiently small (ATM <20) get redirected to beta. The others do not.
In case the solution has not become obvious yet modify that cookie [mozilla.org].
-- "But I use chrome, you insensitive clod!"
Re:Right: Beat them @ their OWN game (Score:5, Insightful)
Also it solves nothing when they put beta in as the live site and remove the "classic" site.
Presumably that will not last long when they see readers flocking away. But who knows, the corporate masters at Dice are probably demanding new readers; and somehow the staff thinks they will acheive this by turning it into a combination of the lack of a user interface for comments that ars has, with the shitty front page that Digg had.
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Self reply:
I said "DIgg had" past tense as I just assumed it no longer existed. Surprisingly it does still exist! And it looks like they moved form the shitty blog-style format to a shitty amalgamation of ars' frontpage and every other goofy column based site.
Also I had forgotten about their "user moderated frontpage" concept. As much as we bitch about slashdot editors and what shows up on the frontpage... Digg shows how this cannot be left to the masses.
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As you are evidently not aware of, DNS subdomains and the so called ``vhosts'' that web servers implement are two completely different things.
As you have evidently not even tried it yourself, all you achieve with that bogus hosts entry is not being able to access
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Ok, so one off-topic comment about your sig: if you expect the relevant, informative, on-topic comments you regularly read here on slashdot, join in against the new beta. If they decide to just ignore our requests, be sure this place will drastically reduce the quality of the comments. Unless you come here to read the "nigga this", "faggot that", "goatse" trolls that are all too common. Then by all means, support beta.
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We aren't going to be here between the 10th and the 17th.
That's the Week of Slashcott.
We *are* the users, and we're fighting for ourselves (and, believe it or not, you, as well)
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I see you've been here even longer than have I.
If what you actually want is SlashingtonPost, I'm surprised you've been able to stand it here the way it's been all this time.
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It's not about what we want. It's about the changes thus far not being as big a deal as they are made out to be.
Personally, I am willing to give site designers a ton of leeway in redesign efforts even if I don't care for changes initially - it's their site.
And frankly Slashdot could use a good shaking down which will hopefully get a lot of really bad apples to fall out of the tree. I am willing to put up with the ugliest site on the planet if the content improves, and from what I can see of the people tha
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It's not about the changes thus far, it's about what they portend.
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It's like I just told SuperKendall, it's not the change so far, it's the sure and certain knowledge that, if left unchecked, the changes will eventually culminate in a site that's all buzzwords and Kardashian articles.
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Re:Works for Slashdot as well... (Score:5, Insightful)
Sounds like victim blaming. "Beta didn't do it. You did it by not accepting Beta." There is always resistance to change. But the change has to at least bring something better to the table. Not a reduction in functionality. If the villagers didn't riot and just left quietly instead then you would still be left wanting better comments.
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Your experience will die if Beta goes into full production. Then you can enjoy all the spammers you must be wanting to enjoy.
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Slashdot has a queue for registration now?
Well, doesn't that solve everything? Just make a Classic shard and a Beta shard and let all the cool kids who are now forced to wait in line head for the Beta (Neo?) while the grumpy old men stay on Classic (Jurassic?). Everyone's happy, and you can even make the Slashdot Jurassic and its dinosaurs viewable from Slashdot Neo as a kind of Jurassic Park.
Seriously, people, do I have to think
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I totally agree, I am NOT a fan of the beta, but there is a place for those comments and suggestions and it isn't in a thread about another subject. If a comment is off-topic, it is OFF-TOPIC regardless of how pertinent it is to the beta. The boycott and rational criticisms about the beta in the appropriate place will convey our feelings quite sufficiently I think.
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No rating API (Score:5, Informative)
Why on earth is google allowing anyone to submit ratings via any API
It's not. From the article:
In other words, the 5 Stars button goes to the app's page in Google Play Store, and the 1-4 Stars button goes to the "leave feedback" screen. A player can leave a lower rating by tapping 5 Stars, waiting for the Play page to open, and tapping a lower star rating.
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Well, it *is* a game. What some people would call a sleazy marketing trick, others would call innovative gameplay.
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Lacking any real information about said motivation, the article and summary have cynically leapt to the worst possible conclusion. Way to muck the rake, guys.
The idiom would be "rake the muck." And it's EA we're talking about. It's not cynicism when it's true. It's very hard to assume the worst about EA and be wrong. EA works hard to seek the nadir of all customer relations.
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I know what is the usual ordering of the words in the idiom. License literary what I did is called.
Re:Disingenuous and manipulative summary, article (Score:5, Insightful)
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Wow. What an apologist. Even if there is no evil motivations, simply doing this is unethical.
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Forwarded on [i]as well[/i]? Yeah, I'd agree that should have been done.
Re:What is this post about? (Score:4, Informative)
If you rate this game within the game, EA gets it and has to forward it on to Google play store. If the rating is 1-4 EA doesn't forward it on to the Play store, but if it is a 5 they do forward on the rating. Its apparantly a bad game, but because of this trick it is still rated a 4.5, which is possible by people rating it lower directly on Google Play where EA can't prevent it from going on.
At least that is what I am getting from reading it.
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The game itself is providing an interface to rate the game. If you tell it you are going to rate the game a 4 it has you send an email. If you tell it you are going to rate the game a 5, it sends you to the play store, where you can then rate it however you like.
Don't use in-app rating. Go to google play store and rate the game however you want.
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Re:What? (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:What? (Score:5, Interesting)
No joke. Total biscuit gives you a quick look in this video.
http://youtu.be/6DJmS7prcmE?t=... [youtu.be]
If this is the future of gaming according to EA they can shove it up their arse.
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Here's the deal Sparky. You give EA money and they'll tell you what's to like and what's not to like. Depending on how much money you give them, but you back in app that's between one *And five star.
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From the review I've seen, the game is effectively unplayable without paying. Without the for-pay speedups, even the simplist construction could take weeks of real-time.