Ah, heck with it. I'm tired of arguing the toss about this anyway.
Truce, Duncan?
Hannes wrote:All of this is a non-issue as far as voting is concerned anyway. Why? Because the distribution of players over time during the voting period most likely follows a negative exponential curve anyway (assumption based on the appearance of reviews which does follow such a pattern). So no matter what an author tries, her game will be judged based on the initial version anyway, regardless of later updates.
Why does it stil have a positive effect? Because authors will think updating their games might give them a boost, leaving future generations with better games.
So:
Effect on voting/competition outcome: mathematically negligible
Effect on archived game quality: positive
pretty much sums up my opinion.If people like the new rule, ok with me. but to me the concept of a competition is gone. It will be submitting a game and have a huge number of beta testers playing it.
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