What’s the plan?

Hello, fellow developers!

I’m looking forward to participate the next LD, but I’m also a bit worried.

This time we got 1910 entries, 1910 amasing games! But at the previous LD we had 2711.

It means we had ~30% less entries this time. It is a significant amount.

I’m not going to say that the decision to disable ratings was good or bad, but it definitely significantly decreased our audience (or maybe it was because PoV said that there will be no LD?).

PoV said that he takes the break for one LD only. The last one. I assume now we he’s going to return and ratings will be back, right?

Now I just want to be sure that the next will go properly. Properly = with ratings, at least with some kind of them.

IMO the audience decrease that we got this time clearly shows that the ratings are important. Maybe we could change the system to make it less abusable or something.

If PoV or someone from the LD team is reading this, I just want to say that it would be very nice if you’d tell us what’s the plan for the next LD.

Comments

30. Sep 2016 · 14:54 UTC
Sorry, no time for a longer answer, but PoV’s plan for this LD was to completely skip it, not just removing the ratings. Due to community effort we got an LD, with 1910 entries, instead of no LD with 0 entries!
g12345
30. Sep 2016 · 17:02 UTC
I’d suggest that it’s much, much less than 30%.
30. Sep 2016 · 23:29 UTC
> or maybe it was because PoV said that there will be no LD?