How's that for a concept ? - the catalog of untrusted publishers

[Methpoodle]

Sometimes I think to myself "Am I really that cynical?" Then I watch The quartering, Yong and Lamen and think "Yep, it's just that bad"
It's super gratifying and I chub up a little.

[Tom]

thats why it's the catalog broke into 3 categories: Avoid, Untrusted, Suspicious. There might be more, like Trusted, worth supporting etc, to include all the publishers.

[Methpoodle]

Lol, I read the title and thought, the catalog will be almost all the publishers.

[Tom]

That's exactly what i actually meant, i, of course, was not able to scrap catalog of such depth in a short term, haha.
I personally think, based on current feedback, that we'd have to wait until we atleast have user review section for the main ExG site and then decide, do we really need user based publisher rep list.

[monnef]

I feel like it would had to be much deeper, more like aggregated informations which could be perceived as bad by gamers. There would have to be categories and issues would have to described in few sentences with sources (e.g. bad value microtransactions - image with ingame shop, silencing customers archived reddit posts or articles). Probably similar to deepfreeze. But that would be much larger project than what is described in OP .

[aileron]

I'm worried it would turn political fast, and the whole point is no politics.

[Tom]

Let's say you're buying a game, the point of the list is to let you know for example that charging 60 bucks for a dlc hardly even 1/3 of the game is not normal, but might be expected from EA for instance. The point would be to warn you about sketchy systems implemented in games of those publishers, such as gambling etc.
I also love sims, but their business model is insane. I've been a supporter for Heroes Of the Storm since closed beta - the game went nowhere, now it has lootboxes and very frustrating unbalanced matchmaking, some people even talk about forced 50/50 win-loss ratio.

Basically a list of reputation to know what you can expect from certain publisher, the list will lose it's purpose once publishers stop being unfair to their customer.
The concept is actually objective, you just count all the sketchy acts and the more there is - the higher the publisher is on the list.

The gamers will set the standarts, but, here's the question, how to implement such system without abuse of it and make it objective in the end, that's something not as easy as it sounds.

[matsudaira]

Not a fan. It’s such a completely subjective concept. Who is setting the standards? That, and isn’t this kind of approach technically bringing all the outside drama in? Sure, soyboys are an issue in the industry, but gamers with their “hit list” can be too. I think every game should be looked at by merit of its own existence, not the publisher. There are many games from “hated” publishers that I enjoy. Just seems counter-productive and isolationist, IMO.

[Tom]

well we might have 2 lists then

[ad_victoriam]

It may be easier to put together a list of publishers to support than a list of publishers to boycott, seeing as the latter is, at this point, almost everyone

[Tom]

You described the best way of implementing such thing, i'd say.
It's true about the Pandora's box though, it depends on the direction where this resource is heading.
Maybe it could be implemented but in more subtle way, anyways we have to wait.

[Tons_0_phun]

I like the idea. My only concern over it, is that you would be opening a Pandora's box as it were. I feel like this list would incite a form of boycott from other sites and publications thus killing this site's chance of increased viewership before it would be able to support itself from such scorn. If you were to wait for a triffic increase and see the public's response to the site in general before creating the catalog, then i will back you 100% on this.

Edit: I'm not in any part associated with this site in a big way. I mean from another user's stand point.