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Re: GamerDNA NOW and Broadcast Contest

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Re: GuildCafe Entertainment Inc. is now GamerDNA Inc.

team building — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:38:05 -0000

Great companies are built by people who really understand their customers which is key to any business.

Re: Is a CORPG in your future?

camping gear — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:13:15 -0000

both games difference is widely given in the blog.I think the former one is best.

Re: Seattle PAX 2009 – Come get some gamerDNA Swag!

sheeparcade — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:32:00 -0000

I think that is great.. Online Games Communities should brought their communities to social network also. So there actually won't be any problem. And anyway. I want one of those sticker also^^

Re: gamerDNA Announces Child’s Play Community Contest Winner

sheeparcade — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:41:34 -0000

Child's Play is a very noble organization. I support what they have done for sick children..

Re: GamerDNA COD4 Clans – Get Your own Private Server for Free!

colines — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:44:42 -0000

zombie mod

Re: Bloons Tower Defense 3 – GamerDNA featured Play Now game

chanelson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:54:55 -0000

Yay. Another game to waste half my day on instead of working, lol. Tower defense games rule!!

Re: Changes to how Nudges Work

openid-11577 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:07:40 -0000

so i made my first nudge with the new system today. i'm posting this just to give you an idea of the frequency of my nudges.

Re: Changes to how Nudges Work

openid-12207 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:37:50 -0000

I am going to say that this is _not_ the solution.

Some ideas:

* opting to be able to get various alerts as a form digest
* A refitting on the dna based recommendation system.

One thing that should be required before you get a single spotlight suggestion, or are recommended any members to follow, is that you need a minimal DNA material.

I am going to say, need to have entered a certain amount of points into the system. This will be adjusted.

Some points would be decided vai:
* Entering a game
* Completing a Quiz
* Giving a game a score
* For each trait given to a game.
* Writing a review on the game
* Playing said game.

After enough points on these are acquired, we can say, "okay, we now have a slightly better idea of who/what to recommend to you on this site"

Furthermore: if you really do not like what somebody is nudging, then, well, stop following them, it is not rocket science. I mean, this is not MySpace where a base requirement on the site is to have more friends than Tom. If somebody stops being interesting, stop following them.

Re: PSN Trophy tracking Temporarily Unavailable

Name — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:02:54 -0000

sony - DIE!!

Re: Changes to how Nudges Work

openid-11577 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:47:18 -0000

the comparison to twitter is awesome. a feature to import friends from facebook, twitter, email, chat, xfire, etcetc instead of the recommended follows would make a lot more sense.

however, i found most of the people i follow via the spotlight because i failed to find a function to look for people with likely interests. thus it would be nice to keep the recommendation-system, but as an optional thing and available to all users. that way you can search for new people when you added things to your DNA.

Re: Changes to how Nudges Work

openid-11582 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:07:20 -0000

The very first thought that came to mind reading this, was: why not limit the frequency of unique nudges instead (or in addition)? Like booiiing reasoned, it's possible I'd like more than 50 people to receive a nudge, although to be honest I don't think that will happen very often, if ever. I understand I will still be able to manually send out multiple nudges if I really want to nudge >50 people, so for me personally this limit won't be a problem or even annoyance. (To be honest, I still haven't even felt the need to nudge anybody yet.)

Still, limiting the amount of unique nudges people can send, should help them consider more carefully which content is extra special, to avoid the spam and and the boy-who-cried-wolf symptom when they just nudge every single thing.

I also agree with booiiing about the site collecting a bunch content before nudging me about it, but something along those lines is planned. Stopping following people who you think are spammy isn't really a solution. People basically aren't using the system as gDNA intended it to be used. People tend to use systems to suit their own personal needs, even be inventive to bypass restrictions, but I really believe in this case the fact is that the system is flawed and should be improved, rather than that people should stop following completely.

Re: Changes to how Nudges Work

openid-11579 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:57:01 -0000

I personally think that the only thing that needs to be changed is the auto-suggest following feature that new members receive, which may have them "following" people they don't really care to receive nudges from. And honestly, how well could they know the people they are following if they haven't even visited their page or seen a sample post?

I think following should be limited only to actual act of manually following someone, because if you took the effort to go to their profile page and follow them, then something about them is interesting, and would be the equivalent of the interaction the friend system provided (as far as nudges are concerned).

I mean if you are worried about spam, what about the the "alert" spams we receive every time a new member ends up "auto-following" us, and then not ever logging back in?

The following feature shouldn't be any different than following someone on twitter, and personally I feel that the auto-follow recommendations seem more for the purpose of marketing, hoping that new members will see a post from someone they auto-followed and possibly find it interesting.

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Again this is constructive criticism, and I find this site overall very well done. I also can't wait for the eventual revamping of how Fame works, and the eventual upgrade to the News Section.

Re: Changes to how Nudges Work

openid-11577 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:41:04 -0000

well, i guess that misses the point. everybody is free to stop following me and thus not recieve my nudges. problem solved.

if i do something really extraordinary, why should i only tell a small elite about it? i rather want all the people who are interested in what i do (aka followers) to know about that special event, because if it's special for me and they're interested in me, it's special for them.

i would rather change the things that nudge does instead of changing how you nudge people. you could collect nudges and send digest-emails. you should add explanations to the email (i never recieved one, because email-options are the first things i turn off on any page, so i wouldn't know if that's in. but you state that people do not know about the reasons of the mail, so it seems not to be in).
nudges should rather show up as items, just like new followers, etc. and they should be marked in a special way (different background, whatever) in the live-feed and maybe even pause the feed.

i think they're a powerful tool and mass-nudges should be possible. however, the frequency of nudges should maybe limited, so you can only nudge once per day (and no, you may not collect them to use five on the fith day).

just my $0.02

Re: Changes to how Nudges Work

twitter-12681982 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:27:34 -0000

That's part of the point of this update, but we'd also like to stress that you *shouldn't* be nudging all your followers. In most cases 50 people should be more than enough.

Re: Changes to how Nudges Work

Earthbound_X — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:13:30 -0000

Interesting idea. Gonna take me longer to nudge people now, haha.

Re: gamerDNA Child’s Play Charity Event

michaelsharaton — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:35:08 -0000

Very good initiative and I'm very happy to hear that more kids will be ahppier because of charity. I work with a donate used cars campaign. It raises a lot of money and lots of money can help lots of people.

Re: GamerDNA Community Connection – Sept 24th 2009

XICA3000 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:10:49 -0000

checking out Arkham Asylum ... it looks real good.

Re: How To: Automatically track Xbox Live, Steam and Xfire

Cyclosity — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:11:49 -0000

I'm trying this S out RIGHT NOW.

Re: GamerDNA Townhall #2 Video

devsterc — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:00:37 -0000

Any thoughts on putting this up as a long mp3 (or other audio) file? Easier to listen to one of those at work rather than hit youtube. Less suspicious to "the man".

Re: GamerDNA Townhall #2 Video

LuckyLuxy — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:56:23 -0000

Hi guys,
Just thought I would say thanks for the mention in segment 3 of the Townhall 2 video. Sam QforQ mentioned me as being one of the main PS3/PSN users in the GamerDNA community! Sad I know, but it was very exciting!
The other thing, Sam mentioned me in the last question in the last segment, segment 5, about buying GamerDNA swag, the only thing is, you called me lucy luxy!! My username is 'Lucky' Luxy (LuckyLuxy), I'm a family man! lol :) Lucky because I have always been called that for some reason, and Luxy is short for my surname Luxford, which my Dad always calls me! Just saying! :)
Finally, any chance of Sam following me now!?! Trapper already does :)
Cheers Sam and Trapper, keep up the great work.

Re: Sept 14th Release Notes

twitter-15720926 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:41:53 -0000

Im having problems with GamerDNA updating my games played It seems to not update SOCOM : Confrontation I have to manually add it

Re: Sept 14th Release Notes

twitter-68429523 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:33:02 -0000

I'm sure the Trophies support will appease a lot of people.

Re: Private: PlayStation Network Trophy tracking on GamerDNA – The Details

Rman5k — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:05:16 -0000

I love that you all have added in the PSN support!

Re: Bartle, Gender, and WOW

twitter-7144592 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:44:03 -0000

I think those statistics about which races are predominant amongst female players is hilarious. My two mains (one each for Horde and Alliance), which were my first choices, are a Dwarf and an Orc, and I have practically zero desire to play a Human or Blood Elf.

I must be stranger than I thought.