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[Sebatianos]

I've been looking through the popularity list of the games and there's something I just don't understand (maybe I'm just to dumb, or there's something quite wrong here).

How can Alone in the dark be the 3rd most popular game?
It has the editor's rating: 5
User's rating: 3
And 1617 votes all together.

That's all fine, but the 4th game is SimCity 2000 and it has:
Editor's rating: 5 (exactly the same)
User's rating: 4
And 3253 votes.

Now I'd think that a game with more votes and higher user rating (editor's rating is the same) would be more popular... So why isn't it???

Oh and when you look at the downloads you'll see, that SimCity is in the 3rd place and Alone in the dark 5th. So it all makes no sence to me.

[Wired]

3/1617=0.001855

4/3253=0.001229


Maybe?

[Sebatianos]

Good try. I've thought of that too, but it doesn't work with other games.

Settlers II - rating 3 (2170 votes) - 3/2170=0.001382488
Day of the Tentacle - rating 4 (2018 votes) - 4/2018=0.00198216

I guess we're missing a variable, but I've no idea what could it be

[JJXB]

maybe its rated most popular on number of downloads or something

[Wired]

It's a good old mystery, whomever solves it first should get a virtual cookie.

[Stroggy]

I, too, think popularity is based on the ammount of downloads.

[Sebatianos]

Originally posted by Stroggy@Feb 12 2005, 03:54 PM
I, too, think popularity is based on the ammount of downloads.

Like I said in my initial post:

Oh and when you look at the downloads you'll see, that SimCity is in the 3rd place and Alone in the dark 5th. So it all makes no sence to me.

So why is Alone in the Dark more popular then SimCity 2000?

[Stroggy]

like I said, perhaps the ammount of downloads plays a role, too.
I remember a discussion such as this one some time back, don't remember the outcome though.

[Tom Henrik]

You people wonder about everything...

The popularity is based on a mathematical equasion made by Kosta.

It goes something like this:
(Editor rating x 10 + User rating x number of votes) + (Number of pageviews + number of downloads)

Something like that anyways.

[wormpaul]

Yes...

Just a wonder why GODS isnt that high :blink: