"People and companies in gaming" forum

Thanks for the feedback.

Magnarmalok has it right. We are going to be using that section to link to additional information within the MyGaming domain.

The reason we keep the competition entries simple is because the prizes are often sponsored by the local distributors and they need to maximise their exposure for the product, and sending people off on a wild goose chase in order to win a game is counter-productive.

If someone wants to develop a "small web based multiplayer" game for MyGaming, then we'll take a look at it.

As for the coverage of local developers; we do that.

While I appreciate the concern, believe me when I say we have good reason for doing things the way we do; we don't make decisions lightly, and we don't just randomly start doing stuff out of 'boredom'.

We run the MyGaming news website and forum full-time as our profession, and part of that responsibility includes doing stuff that ensures the sustainable growth of both.

As always, feedback is appreciated.
 
Also bear in mind that while most people here may not have to suffer the brunt of being capped and experiencing a cut-off international connection - we live in SA, and it's kind of a sad part of our access and infrastructure here.

MyGaming and its forums are hosted locally - so all the information we post here can be accessed by everyone without having to go through international traffic.

Wikipedia is brilliant - and often where we pull information from - and linked in every post that sources it, for added benefit to anyone who wants to delve into that pool of info; but the idea is to essentially save YOU guys time by linking terms, people and companies in articles, so that info is available to you without having to search, find and filter for yourselves.

It's just an added plus - the forum where the posts are found isn't going to be used for anything else but that, so if you feel it is unsightly or detracts from your forum-browsing experience, I guess I'd recommend not browsing it.

If you feel you prefer to source the information yourself - or that it has no use for you - you're welcome to simply not use it at all, and continue as you are. It's really just here to make information more accessible - easily, and locally.
 
This is as silly as someone complaining that prophet made a thread about steam specials.
 
One thing that bothers me about this system is that often in articles, like the new Indie Royale article, I click on the links and expect to be taken to the Indie Royale homepage, but instead get taken to the information subforum. This I can live with, but what irritates me is that there isn't a link to the site in the information topic, meaning I just wasted a click (two if you count having to close the tab. :P), and end up having to go to the site manually. This might just be my laziness speaking, but I really think a link (where applicable) to the site should be placed in the information topics. It just makes sense, from a user point of view.
 
markface said:
Meh, it doesn't bother me in the slightest

I do agree a bit though, most people would rather just google any query than attempt to find any info on here.
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Indeed, seems gamers just have to bitch about something (be that anything)
 
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Graal said:
One thing that bothers me about this system is that often in articles, like the new Indie Royale article, I click on the links and expect to be taken to the Indie Royale homepage, but instead get taken to the information subforum.
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It's becoming standard practice that the links in the article itself will link to explanations and definitions, and links to the websites, articles and sources will be available after "Source:" at the bottom of the article. It's generally being done that way, but sometime links slip into the main text - but the websites you want to visit (like Indie Royale) will amost always be linked in the sources.

If you hover over the links, the text that pops up will show you exactly where they lead, as well. All our definition pages are labelled as "Game/Person/System/Company/Term Information".

I'm sure once we've settled on best practices and stuff, James will make an announcement with explanations or something.
 
It really sits good with the Search engines to have these companies listed on this forum (which is already high on Google).
 
qornea said:
It's becoming standard practice that the links in the article itself will link to explanations and definitions, and links to the websites, articles and sources will be available after "Source:" at the bottom of the article. It's generally being done that way, but sometime links slip into the main text - but the websites you want to visit (like Indie Royale) will amost always be linked in the sources.

If you hover over the links, the text that pops up will show you exactly where they lead, as well. All our definition pages are labelled as "Game/Person/System/Company/Term Information".

I'm sure once we've settled on best practices and stuff, James will make an announcement with explanations or something.
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Ah, okay. Somehow I missed the Sources. My bad, in that case. :p
 
Just a heads up on the NAG entry, they dropped New Age Gaming years ago. It's just NAG now. No longer an abbreviation. Might be apt to rename the entry to NAG Magazine.
 
Graal said:
Just a heads up on the NAG entry, they dropped New Age Gaming years ago. It's just NAG now. No longer an abbreviation. Might be apt to rename the entry to NAG Magazine.
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Ah, shows you how long it's been since I've been there - will change it now, thanks :)
 
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