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Shadowrunner
  
| #1 posted October 20, 2009 at 6:33pm (EST)
edited October 21, 2009 at 3:16am (EST) |
To somehow add a feature where it would let us know someone added a new game to their available list? Kinda like "favorite seller" on Ebay? | DR_SPOCK
| | #2 posted October 20, 2009 at 7:49pm (EST) |
Wow, that's actually a good idea. | Organization_XIII
 
| #3 posted October 20, 2009 at 8:59pm (EST)
edited October 20, 2009 at 9:02pm (EST) |
DR_SPOCK wrote:
> Wow, that's actually a good idea.
No it fudging isn't.
Here is an example of my email if that idea were to go through:
AlphakirA added, Brutal Legend (Xbox 360) condition, good; box yes, manual yes, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360) condition, good; box yes, manual, yes
DR_SPOCK added, Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360) condition, good; box yes, manual yes
Visc added ect ect
7 minutes later:
Reed added, Kingdom Hearts (Playstation 2) condition, good; box yes, manual yes
Now you see why that would be a stupid-ass idea?
| Grenadier
 
| | #4 posted October 20, 2009 at 9:18pm (EST) |
Orgy, they're asking for you to be able to define which people are your friends/favorites. It's not like you'd get them for thousands of users.
Seems like this could be an RSS feed per user. Then you could subscribe to the feeds for the users you are friends with. Also, there would need to be a way to opt out, in case you didn't want people following your every move.
 | monkbonk
 
| | #5 posted October 20, 2009 at 9:20pm (EST) |
So now we have friends on GameTZ, do we
T.A.P.E. FORUM | Organization_XIII
| | #6 posted October 20, 2009 at 9:21pm (EST) |
monkbonk wrote:
> So now we have friends on GameTZ, do we
>
I dont 
| monkbonk
| | #7 posted October 20, 2009 at 9:22pm (EST) |
Grenadier does.
which is surprising.
T.A.P.E. FORUM | Visc
| | #8 posted October 21, 2009 at 1:36am (EST) |
Organization_XIII wrote:
> DR_SPOCK wrote:
>> Wow, that's actually a good idea.
>
> No it fudging isn't.
>
> Here is an example of my email if that idea were to go through:
> AlphakirA added, Brutal Legend (Xbox 360) condition, good; box yes,
> manual yes, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360) condition, good;
> box yes, manual, yes
> DR_SPOCK added, Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360) condition, good; box yes,
> manual yes
> Visc added ect ect
>
> 7 minutes later:
>
> Reed added, Kingdom Hearts (Playstation 2) condition, good; box yes,
> manual yes
>
> Now you see why that would be a stupid-ass idea?
>
>
>
Does this mean I'm a favorite trader of yours?
 | bill
 
 
| #9 posted October 21, 2009 at 8:48am (EST)
edited October 21, 2009 at 8:50am (EST) |
This sort of thing has been suggested before. The core idea being a "friends list" of some kind. Then, from there, you could add various ways you could track your friends. Seeing your friends recently added items would be one, but also their forum topics, their trades and other stuff. Stuff like status updates or "what game are you playing?" info could be added as well.
This is not a small feature, though. I would take a significant amount of work to set this up. We'd need a new page where you could manage your friend's list. Then, a page to give you friends info/updates/etc. Maybe you want email notifications and RSS feeds, etc.
In the past, when this came up, a lot of people had a negative reaction to the idea of adding "social networking" features to GameTZ (like so many other sites have done, mostly poorly). We're not facebook, why imitate them? ...that sort of thing...
Also, I'm going to be working on that rework of the site for many more months, so adding anything major during the next year is something I'll be very resistant too, since it means I'll have to write it twice (again after rework) and I just want to focus on the rework so I can finish that off and not have things in a weird state for too long. | Renaissance2K
| | #10 posted October 21, 2009 at 9:35am (EST) |
Does it have to be real-time like an RSS feed? Wouldn't a daily e-mail - like the New Matches e-mails - be just as good? | bill
| | #11 posted October 21, 2009 at 9:41am (EST) |
Sure.
Though, I'd actually like to move more in the direction of GameTZ sending less emails. Emails have a lot of issues. They get blocked by spam filters and just the more emails that go out, the more chance that they start being seen a spam. It's hard to tell why, but I assume some people just report GameTZ emails as spam, instead of disabling them. Then, a big server (AOL, Yahoo, etc.) will start blocking all emails from GameTZ. And, I have to then beg them to stop doing that. | metsfan718
| | #12 posted October 21, 2009 at 2:03pm (EST) |
Organization_XIII wrote:
> DR_SPOCK wrote:
>> Wow, that's actually a good idea.
>
> No it fudging isn't.
>
> Here is an example of my email if that idea were to go through:
> AlphakirA added, Brutal Legend (Xbox 360) condition, good;
> box yes, manual yes, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox
> 360) condition, good; box yes, manual, yes
> DR_SPOCK added, Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360) condition, good;
> box yes, manual yes
> Visc added ect ect
>
> 7 minutes later:
>
> Reed added, Kingdom Hearts (Playstation 2) condition, good;
> box yes, manual yes
>
> Now you see why that would be a stupid-ass idea?
>
>
>
You're a fudging idiot. | metsfan718
| | #13 posted October 21, 2009 at 2:30pm (EST) |
Also happy 12 years Bill  | mobiusclimber
| | #14 posted October 21, 2009 at 5:02pm (EST) |
I love getting gametz emails. Also happy 12 year anniversary. :D | DR_SPOCK
| | #15 posted October 21, 2009 at 5:48pm (EST) |
I actually read it wrong. I read it as...have an e-mail alert sent when a specific item is added (regardless of who adds said item). This would useful for obscure items that don't often show up. It'd be nice to alter the parameters as desired (condition, completeness).
I wouldn't actually use this because I don't trade...BUT I STILL THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA. In fact, I think it's better than the original idea. I think a lot of stupid things all at once and with great ease. | Mendo
| | #16 posted October 21, 2009 at 8:18pm (EST) |
maybe just bold the number everytime there is a change to its inventory in the system? or a new icon beside it?
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| BucketofJustice
| | #17 posted October 21, 2009 at 9:51pm (EST) |
Why not just have a thread somewhere saying "Post your MySpace/Facebook/Twitter/whatever else you have"? and then pick the people you wanna add to whichever service?
Subscribe | Mendo
| | #18 posted October 21, 2009 at 9:56pm (EST) |
Live inventory for subscribers!!
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| andrewp
| | #19 posted October 22, 2009 at 12:40pm (EST) |
Organization_XIII wrote:
> DR_SPOCK wrote:
>> Wow, that's actually a good idea.
>
> No it fudging isn't.
>
> Here is an example of my email if that idea were to go through:
> AlphakirA added, Brutal Legend (Xbox 360) condition, good; box yes,
> manual yes, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Xbox 360) condition, good;
> box yes, manual, yes
> DR_SPOCK added, Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360) condition, good; box yes,
> manual yes
> Visc added ect ect
>
> 7 minutes later:
>
> Reed added, Kingdom Hearts (Playstation 2) condition, good; box yes,
> manual yes
>
> Now you see why that would be a stupid-ass idea?
>
>
>
Have a feature that keeps restricting Orgy when his restriction time runs out until he stops crapping on people in any and every topic he posts in. 
Bill & Rusty, 12 year marriage still strong.
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