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I found this topic on CE regarding last year's Character Battle winner: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/400-current-events/70391168 I wasn't expecting to see a topic about that on CE. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Aw, November 11th is one of the listed days but it still doesn't mention Tales of Hearts R --- Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality |
OrangeCrush980 posted... Aw, November 11th is one of the listed days but it still doesn't mention Tales of Hearts R You could still vote for it. The games listed on this poll are just examples of several games that will be released on that day. You couldn't expect the poll creator to include every November 11th release in one poll option. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Did the poll creator seriously write 'AS/OR' |
Voted November 18 Dragon Age Inquisition is my most anticipated game so far this gen and FC4, GTAV and WWE 2K15 are all games I really want. I have never purchased 4 games in one day before, ever. Not surprised November 21 is winning though, Nintendo dominates on GameFAQs as usual. --- ... |
spooky96 posted... Did the poll creator seriously write 'AS/OR' Yeah, I LOLed at that option. It's supposed to be OR/AS, not AS/OR. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Not sure if I've seen such a stacked week before. --- BOP Results: http://www.freewebs.com/charmander6000/CB9%20BOP.xls Congrats to raytan for winning the Guru Contest |
Voted November 18th because of wrasslin --- Your new reigning and defending Guru Champion, raytan7585! PSN: ALLIMACSEESOJ |
This is an interesting poll today. Regardless, I will not be tracking it. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Today is also the 10 year anniversary of GTA: San Andreas and we didn't get a San Andreas poll today. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Golden Sun is better, as decided by GameFAQs voters --- Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality |
Bump --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
Bump --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
Luster's clearly been slacking this week. --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
The
polls for the last several days have been pretty boring, so that's why I
haven't tracked any polls lately. I hope we get a re-run of this poll
for tomorrow: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5312- If we get that poll for tomorrow, I will be tracking poll updates for that poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
And
we ended up getting this poll again for today. I will be tracking poll
updates for this poll, just like I did for the same poll last year. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Yeah, because this is such an exciting poll. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
I mean, it's no "What do you call carbonated beverages?" poll, but still. --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
Not_Wylvane posted... I mean, it's no "What do you call carbonated beverages?" poll, but still. hey, at least the geographic breakdown on that would be interesting! |
This poll is definitely not as good as the Soda poll, but there will be some extreme trends in today's poll. There hasn't been a Soda poll for over 2 years now and I hope we get another Soda poll in the future. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
SSB4 was not excluded from the poll this time. --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
Yeah,
I knew it wasn't going to happen because I knew the poll question for
today's poll before it even started. ORAS is doing pretty well
considering it's a remake of RSE. It's currently in second place right
now, just barely over Dragon Age: Inquisition. I don't expect ORAS to
hold onto second place by the end of this poll, due to the night vote
later tonight. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
-LusterSoldier- posted... Yeah, I knew it wasn't going to happen because I knew the poll question for today's poll before it even started. ORAS is doing pretty well considering it's a remake of RSE. It's currently in second place right now, just barely over Dragon Age: Inquisition. I don't expect ORAS to hold onto second place by the end of this poll, due to the night vote later tonight. Ever since the remake people have been very satisfied with the remakes, some liking them moreso than the original --- http://myvideogamelist.com/mylist/superange128 http://myanimelist.net/profile/superange http://vndb.org/u6633/votes |
Poll updates and trend charts for yesterday's poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdFYtc0dWaDRWRzRNUEtKSW9DZy1lOVE&gid=2 As would be expected, the trends were very similar to the same poll from last year. There are some small differences that I would like to touch on. "Yes, I'm in costume" had a good board vote and Power Hour, along with performing fairly good during the late morning and ASV. It performed below average during both night votes and had a horrible early morning vote. "Yes, I'm going to school/work" started out with a bad board vote, but finished the Power Hour slightly below average overall. It performed worst during the night vote, had a slightly below average morning vote. The ASV was above average, while the SNV was easily the best time period here. "Yes, I'm going to school/work" actually didn't perform best during the morning vote considering that a lot of work related options in other polls tend to perform well during the morning vote. Even though there was still a strong European presence in the morning vote, it couldn't have affected the morning vote too much considering the already low percentage for "Yes, I'm going to school/work" in this poll to begin with. "No, I'm too busy this year" had an above average board vote and Power Hour. It dropped off slightly during the night vote. And it performed best during the SNV. With the exception of one hour during the night vote, this option had the most consistent trends over the course of the entire poll. "No, I'm just too reserved" had a very strong board vote and Power Hour. When the night vote started, it dropped off pretty hard and performed worst during the hours of 2:00-6:00 AM. When the morning vote kicked in, it quickly recovered from its awful night vote and remained pretty consistent from 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM. It wasn't until after 12:00 PM that it proceeded to just dominate this poll during the second half. It had a very strong ASV, but it did drop off slightly during the SNV, probably as a result of Australia and Asia waking up to vote again (this option did horrible in Australia and Asia). In last year's poll, "No, I'm just too reserved" lost a total of one hour to "No, it's not something people do". But in yesterday's poll, "No, I'm just too reserved" did not lose a single hour. This happened because "No, I'm just too reserved" performed about 2% better in the final results, in addition to holding up better during the night vote. In yesterday's poll, "No, I'm just too reserved" had one hour during the night vote where it spiked during the 4:00-5:00 AM hour for no real reason. I'm not sure on the cause of the weird 41.55% hour sandwiched in between a 37.20% hour and 37.33% hour, but I suspect this might have been caused by the UK. The UK is somewhat unique within Europe for being a country where "No, I'm just too reserved" has a similar percentage to the US and Canada, despite "No, it's not something people do" performing about 20% better in the UK compared to the US and Canada. So that 4:00-5:00 AM hour could have been the result of a surge in UK voters during that time period. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
"No,
it's not something people do" had the most extreme trends in this poll.
God awful board vote and a fairly bad Power Hour. When the night vote
kicked in, it slowly began to grow stronger as the night vote went on.
It performed best during the hours of 3:00-7:00 AM. When the morning
vote kicked in, it began dropping off hard. After 12:00 PM, it was
fairly consistent from 12:00 PM to 8:00 PM, before dropping off even
more as the European voters started going to sleep. "No, it's not
something people do" performed fairly bad for the final 4 hours of the
poll, where it dropped back down to roughly the same level it was at
during the Power Hour. "No, it's not something people do" won a total of 8 updates vs. "No, I'm just too reserved" during the course of this poll. It won its first update at 2:40 AM. 5:30 AM was the last time it won an update during the night vote. However, it did manage to win another update at 11:00 PM during a time when it was absolutely god awful in the trends. Being god awful in the trends at 11:00 PM suggests that winning an update vs. "No, I'm just too reserved" at this time should be completely impossible, right? This clearly highlights a problem with having very low vote totals, because the 11:00 PM update had just 37 votes overall, with 13 votes for "No, I'm just too reserved" and 14 votes for "No, it's not something people do". The extremely low vote totals makes it easier for an option like "No, it's not something people do" to win an update vs. "No, I'm just too reserved" despite having the trends completely working against it, since random variation in the updates could result in that option somehow winning an update. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
The results of today's poll right now are quite disappointing when compared to the same poll for Brawl. http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5681- http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/3045- In the Brawl poll, 28.97% were absolutely sure they weren't going to buy Brawl, compared to 44.20% that aren't buying SSB4 (as of right now). --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Keep
in mind the the 3DS and Wii U versions of SSB4 will be hurting each
other to some extent. It's probably not really that bad a result. --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
LeonhartFour posted... UltimaterializerX posted...Whiskey_Nick posted...I was told to stop Ulti. Did I do good Ngamer? For just randomly not having me on the signoff show last season and never explaining why? Most people in the topic were like wtf too. Like it's his show and his choice, whatever, but grow a pair and say why instead of being a coward. --- Winner of the Spring 2004 "Best Game Ever" Contest http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page, Rest in peace Kazbar :( |
Team Rocket Elite posted... Keep in mind the the 3DS and Wii U versions of SSB4 will be hurting each other to some extent. It's probably not really that bad a result. The 3DS version could possibly hurt sales of the Wii U version for other reasons besides some fans having either a 3DS or a Wii U, but not both systems. With Brawl, there were some fans that were disappointed with the game. So for the 3DS version, it had to show that it was better than Brawl in order to get those fans on board with buying SSB4 for Wii U. If the 3DS version was viewed by fans as being an above average game, but still below Brawl, sales of the Wii U version would be negatively impacted to a small degree. If the 3DS version had been poorly received, it would have been a total death sentence to the Wii U version. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
UltimaterializerX posted... LeonhartFour posted...UltimaterializerX posted...Whiskey_Nick posted...I was told to stop Ulti. Did I do good Ngamer? Alright, I'll ignore him because of your hurt feelings. --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
Even
with the extra hour in yesterday's poll, the SSB4 Wii U poll couldn't
even reach 23000 votes and even got less votes than this SSB4 3DS poll -
http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5645- Comparing the SSB4 Wii U poll to the 3DS version poll, the Wii U version looked better than I originally thought. For comparison, the Wii U and 3DS polls: http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5681- http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5645- 48.10% of the site was absolutely sure they wouldn't get the Wii U version. But in the 3DS poll, 54.84% of the site did not plan on picking up the 3DS version. Based on this comparison, I think the Wii U version will have higher ownership on this site, but it will only be slightly higher than the 3DS version. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
UltimaterializerX posted... For just randomly not having me on the signoff show last season and never explaining why? Most people in the topic were like wtf too. It's been a year, dude. --- http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab48/Leonhart4/giphy_zps1fe99c19.gif |
Is he still butthurt about Wind Waker, too? |
Bump --- No amount of rallying would let me beat raytan7585. Congrats to raytan7585 for winning the CB9 Guru Contest! |
Damnit,
the last poll option was unable to hold the lead for more than 30
seconds in today's poll. The last poll option got the joke vote, it
seems like. I will be tracking poll updates for this poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Surprised you didn't track the latest console poll. --- Current Let's Play: Mother 3 - http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3652080 Previous: http://lparchive.org/author/mega64 |
I actually did track yesterday's poll, although the poll graph for yesterday's poll looks very unimpressive as far as trends go. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Today's update now has the poll of the day on the boards list. That's pretty awesome. That's...an improvement for vote totals in the future, I'd imagine. Although probably not all that much of one. --- Don't argue with trolls - it means they win. Magmortar is still most certainly not a table. Maybe. |
Magmortar75 posted... Today's update now has the poll of the day on the boards list. That's pretty awesome. Oddly enough, I was tracking poll updates for this poll (why I even bothered, I don't know). But when this poll ends, I will check to see if there was a small spike in the number of incoming votes shortly after this change was made. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
So Ulti wants people blocked because they don't kiss his ass. Got it. |
I am definitely tracking poll updates for today's poll. Now that yesterday's poll is over with, I can comment on the poll change recently. I had a petition for this on Site Suggestions back in 2012, but this was before I discovered the shocking truth behind the massive drop in vote totals since the start of 2010. Originally, I thought the massive drop was because more and more registered users were bypassing the homepage since they have the boards page (or some other page) bookmarked, along with some registered users even losing interest in voting. But even that could not come remotely close to explaining the extreme drop in vote totals over the past 4 years. And then this post from Allen appeared on Hellhole: SBAllen posted... Another thing that really fascinates me about the way the Internet works these days is that for the most part, people don't really go through a site's main page anymore like they used to. This is the Google Era. If you want something, you Google it, go to the result, and then go do something else. Our Google driven traffic's up nearly 1000% in the past 5 years, but as you can imagine a lot of people who hit us from Google get their answer and then move on. That's something I am already working on improving to keep more of those users, but it's not really detrimental to our overall traffic or anything as we have way more new users these days than we did back then as well. :) Originally posted in http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/573081-hellhole/63671751 There was no mention of the PotD in that post by Allen, but that was when I realized the shocking truth behind our significant drop in vote totals. Despite that, I kept my petition running on Site Suggestions before Allen comes along a few months later and shuts it down despite extremely minimal opposition from other users. I guess it didn't really matter that my petition was shut down by Allen, since the PotD being on the boards page was never going to be a viable solution to our extremely low vote totals. Based on what I saw, there was no detectable increase in the number of votes coming in right after the PotD was also placed on the boards page. I wasn't surprised when the PotD on the boards page had no impact on boosting vote totals. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
After
looking into yesterday's poll in more detail to determine the impact of
the poll change, I definitely missed something the first time around. I
originally stated that the poll change had no impact on boosting vote
totals. The problem with that is I only looked at the number of votes
for the individual poll updates rather than looking at the vote totals
from an hourly perspective. Here were the hourly vote totals: Hour | Votes 1:00 | 2521 2:00 | 1657 3:00 | 1238 4:00 | 964 5:00 | 860 6:00 | 871 7:00 | 973 8:00 | 1242 9:00 | 1357 10:00 | 1337 11:00 | 1371 12:00 | 1271 13:00 | 1238 14:00 | 1069 15:00 | 998 16:00 | 1054 17:00 | 1136 18:00 | 1136 19:00 | 1064 20:00 | 1018 21:00 | 963 22:00 | 895 23:00 | 804 24:00 | 759 One thing to note is how the hourly vote totals went below 1000 during the 2:00-3:00 PM hour, before going back over 1000 votes for 5 straight hours. The hourly vote totals going back over 1000 votes after 3:00 PM also lined up with the start of the ASV (although that's nearly non-existent to begin with), but we still stayed above 1000 votes an hour even as late at 7:00-8:00 PM in this poll. The poll change happened around 4:40 PM in yesterday's poll. A poll change such as this probably doesn't affect non-contest polls that much, although I expect this change to have a slightly larger effect on contest matches. It's still too early to say for sure if this poll change will have an actual impact on vote totals. I will keep track of vote totals for the next several weeks and see how they compare to our vote totals during the several weeks before this poll change. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Majora's Mask is back to claim another decade! --- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] [NO raytan NO PEACE] |
I wonder why you said that? --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Trend charts and poll updates for yesterday's poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0AgBWiYjlMLwYdFdKbFFPSml0Mld3VWk5Qkt0U2I0QlE&gid=1 "Only English" had a very powerful board vote and Power Hour. No other hour in this poll even comes close to the Power Hour it had. After the Power Hour ended, "Only English" was never able to achieve Power Hour like numbers for the rest of the poll. Unlike in the continent poll where North America can perform just as well during the SNV as it can during the Power Hour, this was not the case with "Only English" in this poll. As would be expected, "Only English" dropped off hard during the night vote and performed worst during the hours of 3:00-7:00 AM. But the trends were far less extreme than the continent poll, especially because you had Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Ireland to help out "Only English" during the night vote. "Only English" lost a grand total of one update during this poll, when "Another language" pulled off a 4 vote cut at 4:45 AM. "Only English" started recovering from its awful night vote when the morning vote started. By 7:00 AM, "Only English" began to slow down the percentage bleeding. After 9:00 AM, it started making an attempt to gain percentage again, but it didn't last too long because it went back to bleeding percentage again after 10:55 AM because Europe still has a strong presence in this poll right now. It reached its lowest percentage of 50.69% at 12:15 PM. After that point in time, "Only English" gained a total of 1.14% for the rest of the poll, which is very unimpressive. "Only English" performed pretty well during the ASV, but it doesn't come close to the Power Hour it had. The ASV as a whole was merely above average as a whole rather than a god killer ASV. It dropped off slightly during the SNV. Even taking into consideration that Europe started going to sleep around the mid-way point in the ASV, "Only English" still wasn't able to capitalize on that to grow even stronger as we got near the end of the poll. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
"Dutch"
had the most extreme trends out of the European languages specifically
listed in this poll. It had a god awful board vote and Power Hour.
Performed best during the night vote and early morning vote. Dropped
off after the early morning vote and went back to being god awful again
during the ASV and SNV. "French" had a bad board vote, Power Hour, and night vote. It performed best during the early morning vote and had an above average late morning vote. Even the ASV and SNV were still above average overall. The trends for "French" were less extreme than "Dutch", since you had France to help out "French" during the late night vote and early morning vote, while Quebec helps out "French" during the ASV and SNV. "German" had a bad board vote and Power Hour. Unlike "French", "German" performed much better during the night vote relative to the Power Hour. "German" also performed best during the night vote and dropped off slightly during the morning vote. The ASV was slightly below average, while it dropped back down to its Power Hour numbers during the SNV. "Japanese" was overall the most consistent option in this poll. There aren't many voters from Japan in the first place. So most of the voters fluent in Japanese come from a diverse selection of countries from around the world, resulting in the most consistent trends here. "Portuguese" is somewhat similar to "Dutch" for having a god awful board vote and Power Hour. But because you have both Portugal and Brazil and the major Portuguese speaking countries, which have 2 very different timezones, this specific option was more consistent after the Power Hour ended. The night vote and SNV were both below average. It performed best during the morning vote and dropped off slightly during the morning vote and ASV. "Spanish" had a bad board vote and a slightly below average Power Hour. It dropped off during the night vote and performed worst during the early morning vote. It performed best during the late morning vote, ASV, and SNV. Within Europe itself, there is only one Spanish speaking country and it represents a much smaller of voters than voters of Dutch, French, and German. The trends here suggest that Latin American countries had the biggest effect on the trends for "Spanish". "Another language" had a below average board vote and Power Hour. It performed best during the night vote and had a slightly above average morning vote. It performed worst during the ASV and SNV. Overall, the trends for "Another language" weren't all that extreme to begin with, especially if you ignore the night vote. "More than two" had an awful board vote and Power Hour. It performed best during the night vote and early morning vote. It had a slightly below average morning vote and ASV. The SNV was even worse than the ASV, though it was still better than the Power Hour. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
-LusterSoldier- posted... I wonder why you said that? Majora's Mask won Game of the Decade for 2000-2009. Majora's Mask 3D was announced, so it can presumably win a 2010-2019 contest. It was a joke because ports aren't allowed and Ocarina of Time 3D was released in 2011 anyway. --- http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/B8%20Girls%202012/pjbas.png LongLiveraytan |
Eh,
what the f***, I'll go and track this poll since I'm bored. But I
don't expect any particularly interesting trends out of this poll.
Today's poll is related to caffeinated drinks. pjbasis posted... Majora's Mask won Game of the Decade for 2000-2009. Oh, alright. I didn't think AxemRedRanger's post was even related to that, so I was confused at first. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
Now this is a poll that I will definitely be posting trends for. --- Luster Soldier --- ~Shield Bearer~ | ~Data Analyst~ Popular at school, but not as cool as raytan7585, Guru Champ! |
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