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Welcome   by codezombie on 05-07-2010 01:55:58
 Subject :Can someone place a comment for me?.. 16-11-2011 23:43:43 
codezombie
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On Android Marketplace, a comment incorrectly states that Deadly Dungeons is an abandoned project, and I stopped developing it because I was way over my head.  I cannot reply to these comments.  Could someone please mark this as spam if you see it, and perhaps add a comment stating that Deadly Dungeons is still in development and the expansion is currently in testing.

The expansion is bigger than a simple update, so development takes a bit more time.  Version 1.1.7 was a good version to leave the game at while I focused on implementing the expansion.

I'm still waiting on art content for the expansion too.  Everyone involved with this project does this work on their free time.

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 Subject :Re:Can someone place a comment for me?.. 17-11-2011 07:42:57 
Grävling
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marked as spam, and made a review correcting the nonsense, though since my lover and I share our google account, it appears to come from 'Jacob'. Nice name, that. :-)
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 Subject :Re:Can someone place a comment for me?.. 17-11-2011 16:22:02 
codezombie
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Thanks, I really appreciate that. One thing I wish Google Marketplace had was some sort of feedback button for comments. Sometimes people leave comments about problems that can be easily fixed or about things that they might not be aware of. I've actually been able to contact some of these individuals and help them out. Unfortunately, this isn't always the case.
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 Subject :Re:Can someone place a comment for me?.. 19-11-2011 00:17:59 
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Well, that's wonderful. The false comment has received so many upvotes that it is near the top on even the website portion. Not only that, but for the exact reason why I stated on their forums why their ranking algorithm for comments is poor and allows for overly negative or false comments to reach the top spots.
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 Subject :Re:Can someone place a comment for me?.. 19-11-2011 06:23:12 
Grävling
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What I don't understand is why falsec comments get upvoted.
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 Subject :Re:Can someone place a comment for me?.. 19-11-2011 08:16:49 
codezombie
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Well, consider a game that gets mainly 4 and 5 star reviews. Let's say the game only has a handful of bad reviews, some of which are very negative. Well, if these negative comments inform a customer why they shouldn't buy the game, and the customer ends up not buying it, then the customer may mark the review as being helpful. If there are a small number of negative comments then 'helpful' ratings will concentrate on those few comments, and they end up having more overall helpful ratings than most of the 4 and 5 star reviews.

It was interesting when they had their newer review system up on the Android Marketplace.  Most of the top games which were 4 1/2 stars overall mainly had 1 and 2 star ratings as their top comments.  They of course reverted back after a large number of complaints from developers.

 

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 Subject :Re:Can someone place a comment for me?.. 19-11-2011 15:26:57 
Grävling
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Ah, so people who don't buy something upvote the reviews that influenced them not to buy it, even if the review was nonsense, and they actually missed out on buying something they would have liked. Sounds like the system is fundamentally flawed to me. Of course, last spring when I was in San Francisco and has discussions with people from Yelp, it seems clear that they need to have several people whose full time job it is dealing with malicious or mistaken reviews. I cannot see it likely that Google will want to make a comparable effort.
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 Subject :Re:Can someone place a comment for me?.. 03-12-2011 10:37:26 
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Why don't you edit the game description with a "***This project is not abandoned. A new update/expansion will be released soon on this year***".

 

So people knows that such comment was made by a troll.

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