Suggestion for User Reviews

Make it possible to browse user reviews for all games. It doesn't look like there's many of them yet, which made me want that feature even more..

Maybe the options of sorting user reviews by date or score?

Long shot: rating of user reviews (a la Amazon.com's 'other users thought this review was useful [0-5 stars]')

All of this is on the wish list, actually. But others higher up... Priorities at the moment, for what it's worth, are a) smashing a bug in custom images that keeps on spewing errors on some Word articles, b) the ability to buy games as gifts for others, c) a 'user point' system, d) an affiliate system, and e) "tell a friend" email links on pages. Keep in mind also that we're prefunding, and our tech team is basically a part-time student, a couple of volunteers, and some Drupal gurus who like what we're doing, don't really have time to do much work, but hang out and provide advice to the others...

Just a suggestion from the peanut gallery, but my preferred order for those would be a), b), e), browsing user reviews, c), d).

I think being able to get the word out and making it easier to see what others have said about various games will lead to more benefits than rating users or providing discounts.. at least at this stage. As the user base gets bigger then yes, things that help to capture outsiders and keep them in the community become more important, but right now, while your audience is primarily the converted, you have some time to make the site helpful by leveraging what content (reviews, etc) you already have.

I'd like to sort games by user reviews, (highest rated, etc.).

I'd also like to change my password and I suspect I can, I just can't find the menu option.

Jeff

Jeff:

Click "My Profile" at the to of the page, then the "edit" tab once your profile page appears.

The ability to buy gifts for others, that's one I ran into recently. For Christmas I ended up grabbing A Tale of 3 Vikings and Mudcraft and then burning them to CDs with the authentication codes in a .txt file on the disc. Of course it was pure honor system that I didn't also used those codes for myself. It was a fun and off the wall experience (trying to make the CDs presentable by adding stickers and such), but I'd like to have some build in function at some point. Before next holiday season at least, although there are birthdays between now and then.

Out of curiousity, did you guys see any holiday sales boost, or was gift giving not a significant trend?

Our December sales were up considerably over November, but my guess is that it was more a result of the publicity for The Shivah than a gift-giving thing...