World ranking system
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SLǃM
It would be great to have a thumbs up, thumbs down system for worlds. A five star ranking system. Lately a lot of unfinished worlds have leaked into the game and more often than not with my friends I find myself checking out like 4 different worlds before we find something we like. It's a huge waste of time. It would be great to have the ability to rank worlds, having a top rated tab. So that way we can filter out maps that are low quality. A plus would be being able to write a review for a world as well.
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hdorriker
This seems like a great way to alienate even more World Devs that actually innovate and go after "the hard problems" by letting people send 1 star reviews when their GoGoLoco-hacked avatar breaks every single station script in the world. Given that the World SDK is currently ruthlessly restrictive and forbids any attainable proactive measures to keep Badly Configured avatars from breaking everything in sight, this seems like an invitation to anger the people that develop all of the prefabs and systems that set VRChat apart as the platform of choice. I implore you to put this one on the back-burner because the risk is so much worse than any possible value.
ᴋᴀᴡᴀ
I fully agree and I also think it should be mandatory for both worlds and groups when it comes to Creator Economy, maybe even with comments. Because in this case it's already a marketplace with values, where the institution of reputation plays an important role. It's hard to imagine a marketplace without the ability to rate the product.
So, it might be simple like/dislike for regular worlds, and classic 5⭐-system with comments for "p2w" worlds.
DylanOfficial
Nice Idea 10/10
AleynaSand
As an avid world-hopper (I go through hundreds of worlds in Labs to find the hidden gems), the current system sucks, since the system is basically time spent in world+favorites being the only indicators of quality. I have to delete old favorites to be able to show people some love for their new creations, and some of those old gems I don't want to lose. On the flip side, worlds that have obnoxious effects, trolling worlds, are horrifically unoptimized, etc - have no way to indicate such. They still got a visit count from my hop, and sometimes, they're just bad and not worth reporting (but not worth visiting either).
Having gone through "Labs-hell" myself, having to ask friends to spend time with me in and favorite my world to get it actually Public (and able to be saved as a Home; why can't you Home a Labs world anyway?) weeks later was super irritating. It doesn't help that this system is basically slated so only world creators who have external communities like Discords already can shoot through Labs within hours, while if you've fallen off the few first scrolls of Labs as someone unestablished in the space - good luck.
I support a star rating system, and optional (very limited character) review system. I also think it should be limited to Trusted Users only, as the chances of a Trusted User review-bombing is slim and would reduce the chances of bot swarms.
Suggested tags would be amazing (hangout, games, TV, photography, landscape/exploration, etc) too but keywords could be pulled from reviews instead - some worlds are beautiful for taking photos, but don't have much else going on to keep someone there for hours. There's nothing wrong with that at all, but the current time-spent system doesn't support these people getting the exposure they deserve for their efforts.
RobertWK
I love that more than six years later, there's basically now a massive garbage heap of worlds out there and no internal solution exists that allows the cream to rise to the top. I guess until VRChat does it's thing, support websites that permits reviews/ratings of worlds and tries to spotlight good world creators to help correct the imbalance of high quality content to "new single box world first upload [WIP] more to come" locations.
✩Frisk✩
Best if “ Like “ be the only thing be on the option viewable by the public.
If the world has the ability to be like or disliked then the author would need the ability to see those likes and dislikes too from the users who rate them
And perhaps forced to have to leave comments as to why they dislike while those that do like can leave with a like or comments
LoppyDaCutie
not a possibility because bots are a thing with vrchat osc, and they would spam the like button on most worlds anyways showing that the system you explained can be abused. people use the vote to kick function only to have a ton of bots join and vote to kick making it even more annoying. yes thats still a issue apparently.
This as I've explained will be a huge problem if there is a world ranking system.
It can be heavily abused all they would need to do is make a ton of usable emails set each email to a new vrchat account and then down or up rank the world itself. its explained that easy. I've met players who use alt accounts as well so its still a possibility this system will and can be abused.
Deantwo
LoppyDaCutie: I guess it could be limited to a trust rank, maybe
Known User
rank. That way completely new accounts can't be used to abuse it. But yes, it wouldn't fix the issue you describe in its entirety.Maybe one question is; would it matter if it was abused a bit? At most it would affect a special "sorted by community votes" list, and maybe the ego of some creators.
LoppyDaCutie
Deantwowe also got to take in the account of players discovering new worlds
Lightning Dasher
Deantwo I second this. Maybe even just limited to Trusted Users. Sounds reasonable that a person that is already "established" in the game has the insight needed to rate a world.
Disregarding the bot issues, a new user or even user probably wouldn't have much basis to structure a rating on, as they might not have seen many different worlds yet, or necessarily formed a good opinion yet on what defines a good or bad world.
So either way it should be limited to some rank.
Chdata
I might add:
Either "Like" or "Dislike" makes more sense and usable data than a nebulous subjective scale of 1-10 or 1-5 stars.
Being able to review worlds would be THE MOST useful to everyone involved. Think like Steam game reviews and/or literal reviews of google maps for real world locations.
Tom Leylan
I vote against any kind of shared world ranking system. There are enough games, movies, books, websites, products, etc., etc. ad infinitum that people can go rank according to their whim. Someone wastes some time, oh my. Everything doesn't require judgment from strangers.
Chdata
I want judgement from strangers because feedback will help me build better more interesting worlds.
Tom Leylan
Chdata Ask yourself "what action do i take if I get a thumbs down"? Oh but if 20 people give me a thumbs down then I can, what? One needs to know what the issue is. Maybe the audio is too loud (or soft), maybe it is too dark. Maybe it doesn't have enough mirrors and pens and needs 4 more pool tables. A 5-star rating doesn't tell anyone anything. Again do you go to a movie because it garnered 5 stars? Was it rate 5 stars by 10 year-olds and their parents? Everything has a context and these sorts of "like" ratings don't support that.
Chdata
Tom Leylan nah bro... that's why you have a review/comment thing like Steam does... so people can actually say why
Tom Leylan
Chdata got it. So you read the following with re: to your world and do what?
"If you wanted to be bombarded by furries and grown men either saying slurs or hitting on you this game is for you if you are like me those things do not interest you then I think you'll share my opinion that this game is bad."
Chdata
Tom Leylan
between your original payday example and this
you are trying way too hard to cherrypick
even one person taking the time to explain what they didn't like makes criticism worthwhile to a dev
Tom Leylan
Chdata I'm not cherry picking you are making up scenarios that never take place in the real world. If you need to be a reviewer and award stars to people you can do that on other sites already. If I criticize this post you don't see it as valuable criticism and the same would happen if people awarded your world 1 star. You would disagree and arguments would ensue. VRC has better things to spend their time on.
Chdata
Tom Leylan
Nah dude, I'm arguing from experience. I developed for a server in another game and collected feedback from my playerbase.
Feedback is useful. Period. I would want it for developing VRChat worlds too.
Hardly anyone is going to review VRChat worlds in an off-VRChat website. That's a real nonsense made-up scenario.
Your point earlier was that even if players could leave comments about your world, a lot of them would be useless comments?
That's true, but not everyone will do that. Some people will leave real feedback, and that is what any developer worth their salt wants. Even people just expressing what they dislike is useful to a smart developer.
Also, not all criticism is valuable, as you pointed out, a lot of people leave nonsense on Steam reviews. And in the case of this discussion, your argument is just incorrect. Any good developer knows the customer isn't always right ;)
Many of VRChat's biggest updates are around giving better tools to developers to make the things they make, and a Steam-like review system is one of those things.
Tom Leylan
Chdata I'm coming from 40 years of professional software development. You example of a "game" with a user-base is not applicable to VRC and random people jumping into random worlds.
You have a lot of time on your hands if you created 20 worlds and then make modifications based upon some strangers telling you what they don't like about it. When you make the changes have 10 others told you that they don't like those changes? Is "Mark2002" happy now that you changed the music? Did he give you one more star?
Of all the things that could be added to VRC some sort of world review/rating system is among the worst. A new place for even more arguments, like there aren't enough of those right now.
Chdata
Well, I hate to break it to you, Tom, but people argue on the internet.
And many people are literally making "game" worlds in VRChat. They have since the beginning. Doing the thing you seem to be dismissing.
Ghostt
I can't believe I haven't even noticed that worlds don't have a user ranking system. I agree that worlds need some kind of ranking system.
However, keep in mind the psychology of likes v. dislikes and how that would affect the world creator when it feels unfair for them.
Also, keep in mind that groups of people could mass downvote certain creators' worlds, so there would need to be protection against that.
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