Contest Stats and Discussion - Part 1185

#401 | spooky96 | Posted 1/13/2014 5:09:24 AM | message detail
-LusterSoldier- posted...
spooky96 posted...
Just saw this, interesting stuff http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/gamefaqs.com

For some reason I used to think 75% of the people were from North America.


Some of that data is incorrect. It says only 44.5% of visitors are from the US, when it's actually closer to 60% based on Geolocation data I obtained prior to the introduction of the new poll maps.


Oh. Well I just read this thing on the GameFAQs' wikipedia page.

GameFAQs has been positively reviewed by The Guardian[3][4][5] and Entertainment Weekly.[6] In 2009, GameFAQs.com was one of the 300 highest-trafficked English-language websites according to Alexa.


So is Allen really honest? Because currently it says 316.
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#402 | Not_Wylvane | Posted 1/13/2014 5:20:32 AM | message detail
Females over-represented? Really? Yeah, I'm a bit skeptical about these stats.

Meanwhile, ahahahaha @ FFXV bombing here. Though I'm surprised KHIII is doing so well, I guess people expect there's much less chance SE will f*** that up. At any rate, assuming it ends up actually being good (i.e. is uncharacteristic of the average SE game), we could probably expect Sora to stop embarrassing himself in contests again.
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#403 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/13/2014 6:21:32 AM | message detail
redrocket posted...
I wouldn't look for Smash U to do much unless it makes waves after its release. Hype for it is practically non-existent.


Have you seen the Smash Bros. Wii U board yet? It's very active right now and has just slightly over 1 million posts on the entire board, and the game isn't even out yet. That includes all of the archived topics. The Brawl board has slightly over 3 million posts total, but the Brawl board could have had more posts than that since topic archiving was introduced about 1 month before the US release of the board.

ctesjbuvf posted...
Smash U has a lot of hype, more so than most games. Just because it doesn't come close to the Brawl hype, doesn't mean it doesn't have any.


Brawl was such an exceptional case when it came to the hype machine that I don't think this site will ever be this hyped for any future game. On GameFAQs, Skyrim was the closest thing to a game with Brawl level hype.

It's unlikely the next Smash Bros. will ever have the same kind of hype as Brawl, especially because the Dojo is updated very infrequently compared to the Brawl Dojo that was updated every day. Maybe as we get closer to the release date of the next Smash Bros, Nintendo will start releasing Dojo updates much more frequently.
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#404 | 1337gamerpr0 | Posted 1/13/2014 11:03:21 AM | message detail
I thought Alexa was terrible for accurate tracking?
#405 | Nanis23 | Posted 1/13/2014 11:10:30 AM | message detail
Alexa is terrible
I think the only time it is useful is if you pay and actually get information that is not made out of their ass
#406 | KamikazePotato | Posted 1/13/2014 11:13:20 AM | message detail
It'd be hard for Square to mess up KH3. It's not a series that needs much. Disney worlds, fun combat system, stupid plot, done. Millions sold.
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#407 | pjbasis | Posted 1/13/2014 11:34:35 AM | message detail
#408 | 1337gamerpr0 | Posted 1/13/2014 11:44:08 AM | message detail
Nanis23 posted...
Alexa is terrible
I think the only time it is useful is if you pay and actually get information that is not made out of their ass


Alexa vs VGChartz, go :P
#409 | HaRRicH | Posted 1/13/2014 2:20:16 PM | message detail
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/3004

There was no way SSB4 was going to meet this absurd hype after Brawl's divisive landing; people's perceptions of Nintendo has changed a lot since 2008. The Wii also had twice the ownership the Wii U has after their first fourteen months. Granted, SSB4 is multi-platform and the 3DS now has comparable ownership to the Wii pre-Brawl...but I suspect people believe the Wii U-version will be the definitive version, so that may not matter so much.
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#410 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/13/2014 3:22:00 PM | message detail
I noticed that Smash Bros. is listed in this poll as "Super Smash Brothers". I don't know how much that is affecting the performance of Smash Bros. here, but I think Bacon should have used "Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS" in this poll. There is much less confusion when you use "Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS" instead of "Super Smash Brothers" for the poll option.


This actually reminds me of how "Marvel vs. Capcom" was listed as "Versus Series" in this poll:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/3993

I know someone pointed out that "Versus Series" would have done better if it was listed as "Marvel vs. Capcom" instead.
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#411 | superange128 | Posted 1/13/2014 4:12:22 PM | message detail
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I noticed that Smash Bros. is listed in this poll as "Super Smash Brothers". I don't know how much that is affecting the performance of Smash Bros. here, but I think Bacon should have used "Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS" in this poll. There is much less confusion when you use "Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS" instead of "Super Smash Brothers" for the poll option.


This actually reminds me of how "Marvel vs. Capcom" was listed as "Versus Series" in this poll:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/3993

I know someone pointed out that "Versus Series" would have done better if it was listed as "Marvel vs. Capcom" instead.


I thought Brothers instead of Bros was weird but it didn't stop me from voting
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#412 | Not_Wylvane | Posted 1/14/2014 3:50:15 AM | message detail
Impressive performance by Bravery Default.
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#413 | HaRRicH | Posted 1/14/2014 9:51:45 AM | message detail
Unimpressive performance by The Witness.
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#414 | pjbasis | Posted 1/14/2014 10:41:21 AM | message detail
#415 | pjbasis | Posted 1/14/2014 10:43:27 AM | message detail
Watch Dogs losing to default....

Man. Theres a lot to say about that but its too depressing
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#416 | Articuno2001 | Posted 1/14/2014 10:44:09 AM | message detail
RPGFAQs strikes again
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#417 | Team Rocket Elite (Moderator) | Posted 1/15/2014 8:44:53 PM | message detail
Bump
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#418 | Safer_777 | Posted 1/16/2014 2:53:46 AM | message detail
This site loves RPG's,everyone knows that. Also I find it amazing that Pokemon X/Y would be GOTY by around 150 votes. Man!
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#419 | Team Rocket Elite (Moderator) | Posted 1/17/2014 9:30:27 PM | message detail
Bump
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#420 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/17/2014 10:39:25 PM | message detail
Safer_777 posted...
This site loves RPG's,everyone knows that. Also I find it amazing that Pokemon X/Y would be GOTY by around 150 votes. Man!


Pokemon X/Y lost by 37 votes to ALBW, not 150 votes. It wasn't until HeartGold/SoulSilver that Pokemon started doing well in the GotY polls, so to see Pokemon X/Y come so close to winning GotY this year was very disappointing. Pokemon X/Y just happened to run into the buzz saw known as ALBW this year.
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#421 | 1337gamerpr0 | Posted 1/18/2014 7:14:59 AM | message detail
Bravely Default vs Final Fantasy XIII for the lols
anyone? :P
#422 | Not_Wylvane | Posted 1/18/2014 7:38:09 AM | message detail
That's a tough one. FF13 will definitely get a ton of anti-votes, but no telling if Bravely Default will be strong enough to take advantage of it.
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#423 | OrangeCrush980 | Posted 1/18/2014 7:42:19 AM | message detail
FF13's anti-votes would blot out the sun, so I'd have a tough time trusting it against anything decent. Bravely Default isn't out in the US yet though, so it's still hard to say what the general concensus and playrate will be.
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#424 | Team Rocket Elite (Moderator) | Posted 1/19/2014 7:56:45 PM | message detail
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#425 | Safer_777 | Posted 1/20/2014 1:07:26 PM | message detail
Gametrailers did a Top 10 of the worst FF games. However only games that include Final Fantasy in their names. So out of the 14 main games we had 3 there. They were FF XIII(big surprise),final fantasy 2(I guess because it was very different?)and FF XIV(big surprise again eh?)
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#426 | 1337gamerpr0 | Posted 1/21/2014 8:09:23 AM | message detail
OrangeCrush980 posted...
FF13's anti-votes would blot out the sun, so I'd have a tough time trusting it against anything decent. Bravely Default isn't out in the US yet though, so it's still hard to say what the general concensus and playrate will be.


well I was referring to having that poll after Bravely Default's US release
or even better, after Lightning Returns' western release :lol
#427 | Team Rocket Elite (Moderator) | Posted 1/22/2014 8:58:32 PM | message detail
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#428 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/22/2014 9:08:05 PM | message detail
Polls for the next several days:

1/24/2014 - I don't know. Considering today's poll right now, this poll will probably be related to Microsoft or Nintendo consoles.
1/25/2014 - I don't know. Considering today's poll right now, this poll will probably be related to Microsoft or Nintendo consoles.
1/26/2014 - Are you watching the Super Bowl today?
1/27/2014 - Do you prefer your Japanese video games to be subtitled or dubbed in English?
1/28/2014 - I don't know. Probably an original poll idea.

Well, it seems like we will probably not get a 1v1 Super Bowl poll this year.
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#429 | ProfitProphet | Posted 1/22/2014 9:16:05 PM | message detail
the super bowl isn't this sunday
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#430 | HaRRicH | Posted 1/22/2014 9:21:04 PM | message detail
Looks like SB messed up the Super Bowl's poll -- it's not until February 2nd.
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#431 | 1337gamerpr0 | Posted 1/22/2014 10:42:35 PM | message detail
Super Bowl poll is basically an exercise in geolocation
well, assuming the date's fixed, otherwise it's going to be no everywhere
#432 | Not_Wylvane | Posted 1/23/2014 5:04:25 AM | message detail
-LusterSoldier- posted...
Well, it seems like we will probably not get a 1v1 Super Bowl poll this year.


That's a shame, as those are always fun for the people whining about there not being a "None of the above" option.
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#433 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/23/2014 1:12:42 PM | message detail
HaRRicH posted...
Looks like SB messed up the Super Bowl's poll -- it's not until February 2nd.


This awkward situation makes me debate whether I should tell him that he messed up this poll (before the weekend arrives), or just leave him alone and allow the poll to happen so we can see the results of a "Are you watching the Super Bowl today?" poll on a day where the Super Bowl isn't happening.
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#434 | pirate109 | Posted 1/23/2014 1:26:06 PM | message detail
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HaRRicH posted...
Looks like SB messed up the Super Bowl's poll -- it's not until February 2nd.


This awkward situation makes me debate whether I should tell him that he messed up this poll (before the weekend arrives), or just leave him alone and allow the poll to happen so we can see the results of a "Are you watching the Super Bowl today?" poll on a day where the Super Bowl isn't happening.

Don't tell him lol
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#435 | HaRRicH | Posted 1/24/2014 1:38:00 AM | message detail
I'm more interested in seeing when he catches his mistake...don't think he'll let this slip until it's too late.
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#436 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/25/2014 8:43:27 PM | message detail
We're less than 20 minutes away from the next poll and he still hasn't noticed the mistake yet. The poll is still scheduled to happen tomorrow.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/4984
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#437 | OrangeCrush980 | Posted 1/25/2014 9:02:31 PM | message detail
I knew it was going to happen, but seeing it there is glorious
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#438 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/25/2014 9:09:25 PM | message detail
"No, I don't have a bit of interest in it" is currently about 10% higher this year compared to the same poll last year. Running this poll a week early appears to have some effect on the results for today's poll.
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#439 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/25/2014 9:23:40 PM | message detail
Sometime between 12:10 AM and 12:11 AM, the poll question was changed to "Are you going to watch the Super Bowl next Sunday?".

Here were the results at 12:10 AM:

Yes, and I'm rooting for the Broncos 11.01% 74
Yes, and I'm rooting for the Seahawks 9.23% 62
Yes, but mainly for the commercials 5.36% 36
Maybe, only if I don't have anything else to do 10.42% 70
No, I don't have a bit of interest in it 63.99% 430
TOTAL VOTES 672

Over the last 10 minutes, the last poll option has lost almost 4%, so the wording of the poll question is affecting the results today.
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#440 | charmander6000 | Posted 1/25/2014 9:28:08 PM | message detail
Or the board vote doesn't care about the super bowl.
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#441 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/25/2014 9:31:01 PM | message detail | (edited)
That's possible, although the board vote is heavily dominated by North America, so you would expect "No, I don't have a bit of interest in it" to perform worst during the board vote because it will easily dominate the night vote and early morning vote.
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#442 | charmander6000 | Posted 1/25/2014 9:38:11 PM | message detail
The super bowl is a more "casual" event, remember how well Sackboy performed against Kratos Aurion after the game.
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#443 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/25/2014 9:43:31 PM | message detail
And now the last poll option has lost almost 8% since reaching its highest percentage of 63.99% at 12:10 AM.
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#444 | HaRRicH | Posted 1/26/2014 9:48:09 AM | message detail
Well, it looks like SB stops looking at his polls once he puts them in...or just really didn't know what day the Super Bowl would be on.
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#445 | WhiteLens | Posted 1/27/2014 9:10:08 AM | message detail
Ugh, this poll again.

I think Dubbed could be higher if it didn't deliberately say "I don't want to have to read while playing."
A good amount of people are not going to say that they don't like reading regardless.
It should really say, "I prefer to hear English voices"

I know it's mostly JRPGs in mind, but I seriously doubt most people here would rather hear Sonic and MGS in Japanese.
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#446 | pjbasis | Posted 1/27/2014 9:57:31 AM | message detail
Metal Gear and Kingdom Hearts are pretty much the only things Id prefer dubbed
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#447 | AxemRedRanger | Posted 1/27/2014 10:49:01 AM | message detail
WhiteLens posted...
Ugh, this poll again.

I think Dubbed could be higher if it didn't deliberately say "I don't want to have to read while playing."
A good amount of people are not going to say that they don't like reading regardless.
It should really say, "I prefer to hear English voices"

I know it's mostly JRPGs in mind, but I seriously doubt most people here would rather hear Sonic and MGS in Japanese.
Yeah, I thought the same. With the extent to which this is an RPG site, people are going to be doing a good deal of reading whether the dialogue is dubbed or not.
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#448 | Lieutenant Kettch | Posted 1/27/2014 11:19:49 AM | message detail
I'm pleasantly surprised that subs are staying even here. Hopefully dual-language tracks will be standard going forward.
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#449 | Ngamer64 | Posted 1/28/2014 4:42:49 PM | message detail
So if you guys didn't see yet, DetroitDJ is running an update to the old Top Ten Games project from back in the day. It's not "GameFAQs official" but he's hosting it on dozens of boards and has already gotten votes from over 1000 different users, so the results should be pretty interesting. You can check the details here or cast your own votes if you'd like:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/68425836
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#450 | -LusterSoldier- (Topic Creator) | Posted 1/28/2014 5:08:16 PM | message detail
Trend charts and poll updates from the Super Bowl poll 2 days ago:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdFpHX2ZGYWtCYkpkM0tRQmY1M3hjN2c&gid=3

Due to the mistake with the poll question in last Sunday's poll, the trends got affected here.

"Yes, the Broncos" had an absolutely terrible board vote, which was even worse than its night vote and early morning vote. This is because of the mistake in the poll question. Once the poll question was fixed around 12:10 AM, it had a massive recovery and finished about 6% higher by the end of the Power Hour. "Yes, the Broncos" dropped off slightly during the night vote and then dropped off even more in the early morning vote. When the day vote trends started kicking in after 8:00 AM, the Broncos recovered very nicely and began to kill the day vote and never slowed down for the rest of the poll. It performed best during the final hour of the poll.

"Yes, the Seahawks" had less extreme trends, but they were still very similar to the trends we saw from "Yes, the Broncos". Unlike the Broncos, the Seahawks performed much better during the board vote compared to the Broncos when the poll question still said "today" instead of "next Sunday". The Broncos absolutely left the Seahawks in the dust when the poll question was changed. The Seahawks finished the Power Hour just 0.64% higher than what it had at the board vote. "Yes, the Seahawks" performed much better during the night vote and early morning vote compared to the Broncos. It started to recover from its bad night vote after 8:00 AM as we started heading into the weekend day vote and continued to dominate the day vote for rest of the poll. "Yes, the Seahawks" had its best hour from 9:00-10:00 PM.

"Yes, for the commercials" had a bad board vote, but started doing better when the poll question was changed. By the end of the Power Hour, it had a fairly average Power Hour (compared to its final percentage. "Yes, for the commercials" dropped off during the night vote and early morning vote. It started to recover from its bad night vote after 7:00 AM and dominated the day vote for the rest of the poll.

"Maybe" had the closest thing to anything resembling balanced trends. Its worst hour was from 5:00-6:00 AM, which was only about 2% worse than its final percentage. Even with the day vote, it wasn't dominating that time period like the first 3 options were.

"No, not interested" has the most interesting trends here. It had a very strong board vote as a result of the mistake with the poll question. The percentage we saw from "No, not interested" during the board vote is something we'd expect to see during the late night vote. Once the poll question was changed around 12:10 AM, it dropped from 63.99% to 54.71% over the next 50 minutes. The percentage of 54.71% at the end of the Power Hour is significantly higher than the Power Hour we saw in the 2012 and 2013 polls. In 2012, it had 44.55% at the end of the Power Hour and 47.54% in the 2013 poll. In this poll, "No, not interested" pulled off one hour under 50% during the first hour of the night vote before it started to dominate the later part of the night vote. It even managed to get over 70% in this poll, which was during the first hour of the early morning vote. But after that 70% hour, it began dropping off again as the day vote trends started to kick in during the morning vote. It collapsed big time when the day vote kicked in. Ignoring the first hour of this poll, "No, not interested" reached its highest percentage of 58.48% at 8:30 AM. After 8:30 AM, it lost a total of 7.10% until the end of this poll to finish with a final percentage of 51.38% (lower than the 2013 poll, but still about 4% higher than the 2012 poll).
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