Suggestion for TA & Big Albie.

Discussion in 'Site Feedback and News' started by TheKrazyRussian, May 25, 2009.

  1. TheKrazyRussian

    TheKrazyRussian Well-Known Member

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    This Big Albie guy, he's bad man, he made me buy all these games, all i did was is read his reviews :)

    But seriously, Big Albie is hands down the best reviewer, not only here on TA but also on the App Store, the reviews are great and it hows, his reviews are rated the most helpful on most of the games he has reviewed.

    The suggestion i have is, instead of his name being "AlbieOne", why not just change it to "TouchArcade" to promote the site? Or is this against Apple's TOS?
     
  2. jchampl

    jchampl Well-Known Member

    wrong forum bro, this would belong in the site feedback.

    this forum is for games that are official, and currently out. not for anything else.
     
  3. TheKrazyRussian

    TheKrazyRussian Well-Known Member

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    Ooops, didn't know that.
    I have this forum bookmaked and always thought that this was a general discussion forum.
    How can i delete this or move it to the site feedback?
     
  4. rIcHrAnDoM

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    A mod will move it.

    At one time Arn was submitting front page reviews to the App Store, I haven't seen any lately, not sure why...
     
  5. The Bat Outta Hell

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    This is really a pointless, useless, purposeless thread. Big Albie is great, but you don't need to make a whole thread worshipping him =/
     
  6. currymutton

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    Before the mod moves this, let me add: you need help man... :D

    Well, it is okay to me to worship somebody but TA has published some of BigA's reviews on the site. Time to print them out and put in a frame... ;)
     
  7. TheKrazyRussian

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    How is this pointless?
    It's just another way to promote the site.
    And i am not worshiping anybody.
     
  8. TheKrazyRussian

    TheKrazyRussian Well-Known Member

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    Oh yeah? and what makes you say that?
     
  9. arn

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    So, for various reasons I never got around to making formal announcement about Albie's official role. Essentially, he's a first impressions / forum reviewer for the site, and we feature his reviews on the front site from time to time. We fund his game purchases and he does an excellent job at providing the forums with impressions and reviews of major new titles.

    That said, he's still his own agent and has his own voice. We sometimes disagree on opinions of games etc... but that's fine. I don't know if either he or we would be comfortable posting all his reviews under the toucharcade name on iTunes.

    I think there's a burden being the official opinion of the site and not something anyone's looking for right now.

    arn
     
  10. themendoz

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    I agree that thingsshould not change, but this thread brings up a good point. Big albie's impressions are very important to many of us, do you think you could start a section were we can find all of his impressions here on TA? That would be absolutely amazing.
     
  11. arn

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    ya, I'm working on that.

    arn
     
  12. brewstermax

    brewstermax Well-Known Member

    How can I go about getting you to fund all of my game purchases. :rolleyes:
     
  13. Zincous

    Zincous Well-Known Member

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    Hard to write game reviews without going into the games section :p
     
  14. Eli

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    Consistently be one of the best contributors to the Touch Arcade community. It worked for Big Albie. ;)
     
  15. dannys95

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    I do that now............I know! I'll write reviews too. :p:p
     
  16. superbad

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    I suggest an official First Impressions section on the frontpage or something like that.

    It'd be great to see all of Albie's first impressions instead of digging through the separate game forum threads. IDK... just a thought.
     
  17. dannys95

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    +1. Threads get spammed / get big really fast.
     
  18. arn

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    working on better organizing user reviews.

    arn
     
  19. Seishu

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    Perhaps a section dedicated to not just Albie's, but other reviews posted up (only the in depth and thorough though) in a 'Reviews' section. All the threads could be locked, so people can read and not spam. Then possibly a subforum for discussion of the reviews and a place for new reviewers to post and have a chance that their review will be moved up to the main reviews forum.
     
  20. gscal

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    +1 With the inclusion of sub-forums and new forum layout, I think this could work perfectly.
     

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