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Contents 1 History behind Site? 2 Competitors 3 Criticisms 4 Template 5 Reliability 6 Top 10 7 YU KANT EVEN JOIN 8 Whats Going on? 9 Newset Highest

[edit] History behind Site?

Does anybody know, or can contribute, information on the history of the site, when it launched, who created it, who owns it, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.207.106.64 (talk) 16:41, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Competitors

Game Rankings has competitors sure, but are the competitors averages different or more accurate to Game Rankings? JayKeaton 12:04, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, they pull scores from different sources, so yes they are different. As for more accurate, that depends on your view of the sources they pull. Koweja 23:56, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Criticisms

Have there been any criticisms of GR from notable sources worth mentioning? I know that it has been criticized for what reviews it includes and how it translates grade rakings into percentages. However most of these were from fans and therefore aren't applicable. Does anyone know of any valid sources that have published these criticisms? Or any others? Note that we need criticisms of the site, not of users putting to much importance on the rankings. Thanks Koweja 23:56, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Also, please cite a reputable source for the following quote: "Other criticism exists because one of Gameranking's CNET partners, Gamespot, has its ratings count four times towards the average score in the brackets of each game." If a source cannot be found, the passage should be deleted. --Antsh 16:37, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template

Could someone make a template like Moby Games' to link to GR? --Akhel 16:50, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reliability

I added a reason for the site's temporary downtime according to one of their admins. --Antsh 15:35, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

It still seems to be down/buggy, so I added a note about that (though, when they get it up to 100%, I'll remove it). --mrballistic 9:35, 25 April 2007 (PDT)

It seems to be down again. Esn 02:23, 8 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Top 10

What should be the minimum reviews for the top 10? At a lower number, you see more console games get places as they have less reviews.

It seems silly to include a Top 10 that is assured to change constantly when the reader could just as easily get the most up to date information by going to the site itself. This article should be about the site, not mirror the content therein. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.61.104.132 (talk) 20:56, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] YU KANT EVEN JOIN

http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/points.asp Click Here to Create a New Profile, Edit an Existing One or Just sign up for our Newsletter! http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/userlogin.asp We're sorry, we have temporarily disabled logins on this site.

EXPLAIN THAT ABSENS IN THIS ARTIKL SIENTISTS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.17.249 (talk) 01:11, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Despite the grammar and tone of this comments the content is true. The site's login system, registration and forums seem to have been down for awhile now. Haven't seen any information as to why. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.21.231.187 (talk) 19:34, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Whats Going on?

Hey i think some microsoft fan vandalized the page, he or she put halo 3 as the number 1 in the ranking and bishock in the third place, so im reverting it Mario the master (talk) 04:16, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Well too late, the reversion was made, anyways it may be usefull in the futureMario the master (talk) 04:19, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Newset Highest

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is the new highest score, With a 97%.Stickmeister (talk) 16:28, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

It's not officially up yet, as it doesn't have 20 reviews yet. We may as well put [1] up there. DaltinWentsworth^{talk to me!} 16:26, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Does anyone kow why Game Rankings suddenly decided to drop Ocarina of Time's score over the past week? Nothing has chnaged in its reviews but for some inexplicable reason they've decided to reduce its score from its original 97.668% down to 97.323%. If they hadn't made this random change then Ocarina of time would be the number one game! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.104.35.82 (talk) 09:41, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Game Rankings doesn't make random changes. I would bet that a review was added that you didn't know about and the ranking was adjusted accordingly. 17:00, 10 June 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lympathy (talk • contribs)