Revamp "Wanted" ("Games you'd love to see on GOG") Interface
Issue:
There's tons of crap in the list. It's hard for anything but the "super popular" games to get a lot of votes.
Off the top of my head, I may know a handful games that I definitely want badly on gog.com, but there are other games that I may have forgotten about. If I was reminded of them, I'd say "Oh yeah, that game is great!" and definitely vote for it. The problem is, there are only 10 chances for this to happen, as the page only lists the Top 10 voted for games.
Suggestions:
Switch the "recently added" and the "most voted" sections. "Most Voted" should be a first-class citizen on this page. Allow the user to browse by votes indefinitely- not just the Top 10. 99% of the "recently added" are complete nonsense (console games, games released this year, games already on GOG), so they should be relegated to the sidebar- more like a twitter feed of recent changes. Marginally interesting, but not the primary focus.
Take a stand on expansion packs- I am assuming (perhaps wrongly), that if the base game is available on gog.com, the expansion packs would automatically be considered as well, if not automatically included in the main game. So is it really nessesary for the the "wanted" list to include the base game, plus 5 expansion packs, plus "gold edition", plus "<Base Game> + expansions"? I would suggest just saying "Do not include expansion packs- Vote for the original game only".
Allow "flagging" of each game nomination, with a choice of reason. For example, once you click the "Flag as Inappropriate" icon, a popup will display with some choices- "Not a PC Game", "Duplicate Entry", "Already on GOG", "Recent Release", "Expansion Pack", etc. Of course, this would require some type of manual moderation, but if something is getting a very high number of "inappropriate" votes, it should be easy to see it should be deleted (or not).
Right now the interface is useful for specific searching and voting, but if I just want to browse and jog my memory, it's practically useless when there is page after page of "Mass Effect 2", "Half-Life 2", "Killer Instinct", "Earthbound", and other things totally not relevant to gog.com.
Post edited April 02, 2010 by Slash