Talk:GameRankings

History behind Site?
Does anybody know, or can contribute, information on the history of the site, when it launched, who created it, who owns it, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.207.106.64 (talk) 16:41, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Competitors
Game Rankings has competitors sure, but are the competitors averages different or more accurate to Game Rankings? JayKeaton 12:04, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, they pull scores from different sources, so yes they are different. As for more accurate, that depends on your view of the sources they pull. Koweja 23:56, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Criticisms
Have there been any criticisms of GR from notable sources worth mentioning? I know that it has been criticized for what reviews it includes and how it translates grade rakings into percentages. However most of these were from fans and therefore aren't applicable. Does anyone know of any valid sources that have published these criticisms? Or any others? Note that we need criticisms of the site, not of users putting to much importance on the rankings. Thanks Koweja 23:56, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Also, please cite a reputable source for the following quote: "Other criticism exists because one of Gameranking's CNET partners, Gamespot, has its ratings count four times towards the average score in the brackets of each game." If a source cannot be found, the passage should be deleted. --Antsh 16:37, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Template
Could someone make a template like Moby Games' to link to GR? --Akhel 16:50, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Reliability
I added a reason for the site's temporary downtime according to one of their admins. --Antsh 15:35, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

It still seems to be down/buggy, so I added a note about that (though, when they get it up to 100%, I'll remove it). --mrballistic 9:35, 25 April 2007 (PDT)

It seems to be down again. Esn 02:23, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

Top 10
What should be the minimum reviews for the top 10? At a lower number, you see more console games get places as they have less reviews.

It seems silly to include a Top 10 that is assured to change constantly when the reader could just as easily get the most up to date information by going to the site itself. This article should be about the site, not mirror the content therein. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.61.104.132 (talk) 20:56, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

YOU CAN'T EVEN JOIN
http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/points.asp Click Here to Create a New Profile, Edit an Existing One or Just sign up for our Newsletter! http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/userlogin.asp We're sorry, we have temporarily disabled logins on this site.

EXPLAIN THAT ABSENST IN THIS ARTIKL SIENTISTS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.17.249 (talk) 01:11, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Despite the grammar and tone of this comments the content is true. The site's login system, registration and forums seem to have been down for awhile now.  Haven't seen any information as to why.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.21.231.187 (talk) 19:34, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Whats Going on?
Hey i think some microsoft fan vandalized the page, he or she put halo 3 as the number 1 in the ranking and bishock in the third place, so im reverting it Mario the master (talk) 04:16, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Well too late, the reversion was made, anyways it may be usefull in the futureMario the master (talk) 04:19, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Newset Highest
Super Smash Bros. Brawl is the new highest score, With a 97%.Stickmeister (talk) 16:28, 28 February 2008 (UTC)


 * It's not officially up yet, as it doesn't have 20 reviews yet. We may as well put up there. DaltinWentsworthtalk to me! 16:26, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Does anyone kow why Game Rankings suddenly decided to drop Ocarina of Time's score over the past week? Nothing has chnaged in its reviews but for some inexplicable reason they've decided to reduce its score from its original 97.668% down to 97.323%. If they hadn't made this random change then Ocarina of time would be the number one game! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.104.35.82 (talk) 09:41, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Game Rankings doesn't make random changes. I would bet that a review was added that you didn't know about and the ranking was adjusted accordingly. 17:00, 10 June 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lympathy (talk • contribs)

Top Games Per Platform (voted by user)
The table include regarding top game per platform as voted per users I have deleted as I no longer believe it is relevant due to the inability of users to vote for well over a month. This means that games released since then aren't included and makes this section irrelevant and should be suspended until users are able to vote again. Lympathy   Talk  15:22, 7 August 2008 (UTC)


 * What you mentioned applys to the current platforms, DS, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii, and PC.With these removed, the list of other platforms should remain.--43.244.132.168 (talk) 19:22, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

I LOS MY RANK 55 AND I SAD WHAT CAN I DO FOR GE MY 55 RANK BACK PLIS CAN U HELP MI  GUYS  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.55.164.170 (talk) 02:34, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Website has an error!
I kept trying to go to the Game Rankings website shown here, but it gets an error that says "Webpage not found"! Something is wrong with the website! Anybody else have this problem? If so, how can the website be fixed? --Angeldeb82 (talk) 18:55, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
 * If there was a problem there would be little that we could do. However, the website not found message is now replaced with an under maintence message meaning that it should be up and running again quite soon. --76.66.187.118 (talk) 22:59, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I get directed to Gamespot. What's going on?! GamerPro64 (talk) 23:27, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

GameRankings down temporarily for maintenance, cleaning up a SQL Injection attack
This is VinceL, a software engineer at GameSpot (which shares its technology team with GameRankings). The site is down temporarily because of a SQL injection attack on GameRankings over the weekend which corrupted our data. During this time we are restoring data, patching up security holes, and in this case, doing some major rewrites. You may occasionally see GameRankings redirect either to GameSpot or Metacritic, both being CBS Interactive sites (formerly CNET Networks Entertainment sites). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Semanticore (talk • contribs) 01:50, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Site Inclusion Rules
Please don't delete the Site Inclusion Rules, I know that I added them by copy and paste, but they are rules, if I do anything else that means that I've changed those rules, that means I lied! so the only thing I can do is to write down the exact thing the site proclaims.--Gezegond (talk) 19:42, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Non-notable?
Why are we including a random game ranking site? I don't see why it is any more notable than any other game review site, and there are thousands of those.--Thalia42 (talk) 10:32, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

No scores on GameRankings' game pages now!
Something's terribly wrong with GameRankings! All of its game pages have NO aggregator scores on their home pages whenever I visit them! This has been going on for DAYS! When will the aggregator scores be back up on all the games' home pages? --Angeldeb82 (talk) 15:58, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

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Possible merger into Metacritic
The subject of this article certainly is notable, in some respects being the predecessor to Metacritic. Needless to say for those in the know, it has been used extensively by Wikipedia, but the Wikipedia article is quite short. As important as GameRankings may have been, I doubt that we can find much information about the website's history etc. from launch until being redirected to Metacritic. Personally, I would merge this article into Metacritic, but of course as with any potentially controversial move, I need to first develop a consensus to do that.  Free Media  Kid!  23:49, 30 December 2020 (UTC) It seems that consensus is already clear not to merge the articles, as while the two may be sister websites, their kin is still far apart enough to be considered distinct. In a way, I think merging the two articles would make some sense, but just because merging them would make sense does not mean that they would in ways they should. However before I close this merge discussion, I would like to ask whether there is any other Wikipedia article whose subject is closely related to this article's and into which this article can be more plausibly merged, or whether this article is bound to remain an article. Thank you.  Free Media  Kid!  09:14, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Absolutely not. GameRankings was its own entity. This would make no sense. GamerPro64  00:13, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I agree with GamerPro64, GameRankings was its own thing so, merging it with Metacritic makes no sense whatsoever... Roberth Martinez (talk) 03:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Doesn’t make sense. They are separate entities like Next and Apple. Yes, one merged into another, but they were sufficiently separate things and should be documented separately. Ckoerner (talk) 04:56, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't think there is any possible merger that would improve things for readers. I think it works best to have a short clear standalone article about what GameRankings was, even it that means an unusually small article. Oppose -- 109.76.203.103 (talk) 16:24, 5 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Oppose per above. ~ HAL  333  18:05, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

There is no reason to keep this months-old discussion up, and consensus has been made clear.  Free Media  Kid!  08:47, 21 March 2021 (UTC)