Well I dont believe the community is dieing now any more then it was a year ago. Its the DailyClick, its been up well sence before I came, & counting on how much history is already past us *cough* the time ShadowCaster got his name deleted & counted on backups to save him. *cough* I dont think that DC will be dieing now or any time soon, we have alot of n00bs, but we also have alot of people who actually know what they are doing, we just need to set the n00bs streight, & we'll be fine, & by that I dont mean be rude to them everytime they submit a stickman game. Anyway, I'm basicly saying that at 1 time we used to have great games firing at us left & right, now it just seems like people dont care anymore, they submit a game & get crashed, so they figure, why bother. Not true though, thats how I, & many other people here started out. I mean heck, I still have Pong Advance (I know its a spelling error) & Storm Master up, reading on how rude people were to be back then just makes me seem no better then the n00bs now, but look at me now, I've improved on not just being a n00b, but being on in style too. Anyway, No big deal, I was just in a mood to ramble about anything I saw when I made this topic.
Personally, I do believe games like eternal daughter and the like should be in a league of their own, but the GOTW portion of the site isn't where the complaint should be placed. There should be a "Gold Download" section if you will, where only games of a high enough quality would be posted. This way if you want to play an awesome game all you would have to do is go to the Gold Download section (not really an amazing idea for the title of the section, merely an example)
Just a thought.
Maybe demos could be added to the poll again. That'd maybe raise the quality a bit (because there have to be at least as many demos & finished games as there are finished games, obviously - that means that the quality has be at least as good as it'd be if there were only finished games...).
This has of course nothing to do with me releasing a demo soon!! Still, it's probably worth a thought imho.
Demos shouldnt be in the gotw only because they 90% of the time never get finished. Now games that arent freeware deserve a place in the GOTW though! Because its not right to keep the high quality games that are being sold down, & let the games that are sucky, but free, into the gotw, just because they are... well... free! I remember that with that Monkey Co. game.
You're right! Half Life 2 for game of the week! But seriously, it's not a fair democracy if it's not possible to play all canditates free. There is actually already a "top games" type thing that is completely independent of GOTW, the top 10. If I'm not mistaken, most of the top games mentioned above are in it. And ToTaL, not everyone can raise the bar. Ever read the "This isn't fun anymore" article? Games shouldn't have to be amazing to get on the site, it's not like you have to download them or anything, and if they're downright terrible it's pretty easy to tell. And by the way, I'm making a stick game that is trying to raise the bar...
Why the hell am I on the computer at 1 in the morning? No, don't answer.
"This way if you want to play an awesome game all you would have to do is go to the Gold Download section"
Andi's Goldmine is like this, except it's rarely updated.
There is nothing wrong with the GOTW poll.
Surely all full games should get into the GOTW even without screenshots. So why is there usually only four games.
anyway there is no excuse for no screenshots now anyway.
"Not all of us are capable of creating the next GTA San Andreas."
That's probably a good thing considering how much that game sucked...
Also, I don't think it's being overly critical to point out that a game blows. 95% of the stuff posted on this site is pure rubbish, and I'd personally be embarassed to upload anything as bad as some of the games that even make the front page here. If Klik games are ever going to be taken seriously, then a lot more effort needs to be put into the them.
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*cough* I dont think that DC will be dieing now or any time soon, we have alot of n00bs, but we also have alot of people who actually know what they are doing, we just need to set the n00bs streight, & we'll be fine, & by that I dont mean be rude to them everytime they submit a stickman game. 
Anyway, I'm basicly saying that at 1 time we used to have great games firing at us left & right, now it just seems like people dont care anymore, they submit a game & get crashed, so they figure, why bother. Not true though, thats how I, & many other people here started out. I mean heck, I still have Pong Advance (I know its a spelling error) & Storm Master up, reading on how rude people were to be back then just makes me seem no better then the n00bs now, but look at me now, I've improved on not just being a n00b, but being on in style too. 
Anyway, No big deal, I was just in a mood to ramble about anything I saw when I made this topic.
Still, it's probably worth a thought imho.
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