o DEEVIUS o said:^ This, thank you. Ma-jor-ity
Plus, 48 million mate, 48,000,000 more members - Even the most unpopular games now will get a massive boost of population.I'd actually like to see unpopular/rare games get a big boost in numbers - currently the ratios on most of these are actually useless as the only people who play them on TA are the hardcore achievement hunters who tend to finish the game out, driving the ratios lower than they should be. Take
Super Star Karaoke for example - very rare game, looking at the TA score though you'd think it's actually pretty easy, however this game requires 10s of hours of grinding to complete.
My point here is that we suffer from issues of too few people. I'll tackle the discussion about how the large numbers might affect games overall below.
o DEEVIUS o said:Remaining on-topic but slightly different aspect; can anyone simply add a tag to TA tracking without their permission? Is that the OP was questioning?
If that's the case whats to stop, apart from sheer time consumption, everyone just adding random unregistered gamertags in that way now?Yes, anyone can add any unregistered gamertag as a friend here without their permission. The only thing that might stop this is if the gamertag has already been added and banned from the site, or has specifically requested that their tag be removed (which does happen).
o DEEVIUS o said:I know this goes against my preference here but theoretically, couldn't we all just club together and add dozens or even hundreds of tags to TA to be tracked?You could - I'm not positive about the per account limits though, e.g. if I add 40 unregistered accounts as a pro user, then remove some, does the tracking for those ones I've removed stop? I've a feeling the answer is no, but I'm not entirely sure.
Back to the topic of what adding every single player of a game might do to the ratios: we might be able to emulate this, with Rich's help. If we pick a game that uses Xbox leaderboards and is very popular, we can scan the leaderboard for all the gamertags that are attached to the game, then if Rich is willing he could scan all of these in (to a temporary table) and apply the site calculations and we could see what actually happens to the ratios. I'd be interested in seeing the results, particularly if we can get a highly popular game and a fairly rare game for comparison.
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