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Quest system is the best and worst thing to happen to Giant Bomb

Topic started by MattBosten on April 9, 2010. Last post by Whisperkill 2 years, 1 month ago.
Post by MattBosten (453 posts) See mini bio Level 35 / 4030 ACH / 88030 P
Whilst I like that it adds an incentive toward being a part of the community and adding to the site, like rewarding contributing to the forums and completing wiki edits. However, this is now resulting in a LOT of spam?
So do you feel positive or negative about the quest system?
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by S0ndor (2,063 posts) See mini bio Level 31 / 789 ACH / 4630 P
The scavenger hunt quests are fun, but some quests...
 
I'm not going to update my status for 30 days straight or make 10 lists.
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by Jadeskye (4,218 posts) See mini bio Level 34 / 5111 ACH / 90685 P
i think it'll die down after a week or so.
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by geirdaniel (67 posts) See mini bio Level 27 / 3895 ACH / 84850 P
Already being an ach whore, i'm at my wits end. But no, updating my status for 30 days is a no go.
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by arab_prince (2,001 posts) See mini bio Level 36 / 1544 ACH / 24195 P
Its a clever idea, but Im not a fan. GB didn't need it and I don't know why they felt they had to implement it.
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by s7evn (1,031 posts) See mini bio Level 33 / 1664 ACH / 14920 P
Like all things it will die down, but the idea is great.
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by EthanML (265 posts) See mini bio Level 16 / 2337 ACH / 47254 P
@S0ndor said:
" The scavenger hunt quests are fun, but some quests...  I'm not going to update my status for 30 days straight or make 10 lists. "
I agree with you, though I thought I'd just point out that the quest is to make a list with 10 items in it, not 10 lists, which is a lot more reasonable. But yeah, some quests are kind of stupid/will encourage spam and other dumb behaviour.
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by oldschool (7,139 posts) See mini bio Level 10
I have never been so bored or disinterested in anything in my internet life.  All of the decent threads are just being bumped off the front page in record speed and dying in obscurity.  I can't express how much I hate the spam.  I don't care if it will die down eventually as it is just annoying at ant time.  I could also not care any less what my level is and I swear I will never do a quest.
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by raidingkvatch (912 posts) See mini bio Level 22 / 2187 ACH / 37471 P
Some quests have encouraged some spam, and lots of them are driving me nuts trying to figure them out, but I still think it's a cool addition to the site
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by cap123 (2,160 posts) See mini bio Level 28 / 2117 ACH / 31712 P
hopefully the spam will die out after a while, once all the current users have got it out their system. New users will still perhaps do it but hopefully they'll try to make something at least resembling a topic of conversation.
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by armaan8014 (4,478 posts) See mini bio Level 16 / 44 ACH / 735 P
I feel neutral. It's true, it IS both good and bad.
Edited 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by Tireyo643 (5,200 posts) See mini bio Level 22
I have mixed feelings about it. I like the idea once I knew what to do. There are a couple of glitches, bugs that I've came across so hopefully it'll be fixed soon.
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by Jeust (8,948 posts) See mini bio Level 17 / 509 ACH / 10285 P
@armaan8014 said:
" I feel neutral. It's true, it IS both good and bad. "
And in the long run the good, will surpass the bad, since everyone will get eventually tired of spamming. 
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by RedEyesBlueBunny (949 posts) See mini bio Level 33 / 224 ACH / 4880 P
i don't like it so far, because i feel like i've already done a lot of this stuff and now it's like it's saying i haven't done those simple things, and the ones i go to do aren't giving me the awards for it, so it's just kind of frustrating, but im sure those things will be fixed eventually
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by punkxblaze (1,583 posts) See mini bio Level 17 / 399 ACH / 5613 P
Yeah. Cool idea, but lots of spam, and the site DOES seem to be lagging down a lot since the update. Hopefully the spam will die down and the lag will be fixed.
Edited 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by Gamebite (17 posts) See mini bio Level 10 / 2257 ACH / 38622 P
I do like the idea, always came to watch some video's and article's never really filling up my profile. Now with this new feature it's like on the 360 or PS3 let's get allot of achievements. And it also is a great way to keep people busy on there site, it's probably working already.
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by TwoLines (1,825 posts) See mini bio Level 21 / 1788 ACH / 19665 P
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The Fog quest is hilarious.
All the spam is pissing people off, and I'm laughing my ass off.
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by Fallen189 (4,274 posts) See mini bio Level 29 / 2068 ACH / 31844 P
@oldschool said:
" I have never been so bored or disinterested in anything in my internet life.  All of the decent threads are just being bumped off the front page in record speed and dying in obscurity.  I can't express how much I hate the spam.  I don't care if it will die down eventually as it is just annoying at ant time.  I could also not care any less what my level is and I swear I will never do a quest. "
I made a somewhat well written blog earlier, but it got bumped off the front page in 5 seconds because people wanted to know where quests are. It made me sad.
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by Gizmo (4,781 posts) See mini bio Level 14 / 1159 ACH / 16275 P
@oldschool said:
" I have never been so bored or disinterested in anything in my internet life.  All of the decent threads are just being bumped off the front page in record speed and dying in obscurity.  I can't express how much I hate the spam.  I don't care if it will die down eventually as it is just annoying at ant time.  I could also not care any less what my level is and I swear I will never do a quest. "
This
Posted 2 years, 1 month ago
Post by Rallier (1,749 posts) See mini bio Level 13
@Jeust said:

" @armaan8014 said:

" I feel neutral. It's true, it IS both good and bad. "
And in the long run the good, will surpass the bad, since everyone will get eventually tired of spamming.  "
And then hopefully they'll start getting involved in the wiki. 
 
There need to be more wiki related quest by the way. Not sure how to plan on handling new quests. If they are going to release a new "set" every week or something similar. Well i sure hope that from this point on if they release a quest that ask you to have 500 points on a page that it will be retroactive from yesterday on.
Edited 2 years, 1 month ago

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