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Originally posted by perigee:
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Originally posted by Benoit:
Nowhere else than this thread, as far as I know. Of course, I could be horribly wrong.
I lobbied for
Anata no Osanazuma on the GC board and also argued for games with better story lines. I wonder if closing the board was an excuse for tabulating the votes in the game-ranking topic? That may have provided better feedback than the simple "pick your favorite" survey.
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One of the fun with statistics is a thing which could be called "weighed voting". A brief way of putting it is that people rank their choices of the candidates, 1, 2, 3, etc. This allows a diffrent measure, in that not only do you know what are the top choices are, but also what people are willing to take if they can't have the top choice. Some have said it's a more realistic measurement of votes, but I won't get into that debate here. One thing I did was compile the list of all the votes, (5 points for 1st choice, 4 for 2nd, ... 1 points for 5th choice.) of all the votes in the G-Collection's BBS. While this is nowhere near as large as the data that G-Collections itself collected, it is still suprising in the breakdown of weighed votes:
Total Value:
84pts Gimai-Hitomi
78pts Koneko Doumei
72pts Anata no Osanazuma
71pts Minna De Nyan-Nyan
70pts Oshiete Agechau 2
Now, compared this to ranked by 1 person, 1 vote, for their favorite game:
1st Choice:
9 votes Koneko Doumei
8 votes Gimai-Hitomi
3 votes Anata no Osanazuma
3 votes Minna De Nyan-Nyan
2 votes Oshiete Agechau 2
Now, judging by the standards of the second counting system, Koneko Doumei and Gimai-Hitomi clearly dominate the others. However, by using the first standard, you can see that the games are fairly balanced in how toleratable they are. How can I prove that? Simple. Because ranked by SECOND favorite game, the results are:
2nd Choice:
6 votes Anata no Osanazuma
6 votes Oshiete Agechau 2
5 votes Minna De Nyan-Nyan
4 votes Koneko Doumei
4 votes Gimai-Hitomi
Thus, the winners of First Ranking now come in dead last for Second Ranking.
Finally, just to be stastically significant, the rank for the LEAST wanted games. (Ranks are from least to most, since you want fewer votes placing you in last place)
5th Choice (aka Anything but THIS game)
3 votes Minna De Nyan-Nyan
4 votes Gimai-Hitomi
5 votes Anata no Osanazuma
5 votes Oshiete Agechau 2
8 votes Koneko Doumei
In essence, the real reason why Trabulance games are continued to be made is because they are a moderate in popularity. They will earn a consistant amount in sales. Then there are things like Koneko Doumei which are crap shots. They could become runaway bestsellers, or they could bomb right out the door. In general, while everyone would like many bestsellers, it's more realistic to continue to make more consistant seller, with an ocassional crap shot, modified, of course, by whatever the translators LIKE to work on.
If anyone is still awake at this point, I could provide the 3rd and 4th, but really, the 1st, 2nd, and 5th make up most arguments pretty well.