This game is too chad for it to be worth paying anything for promoting it.

[quote] When did ELO come to the site? [/quote] Like October 2020 or smth.

What is this thread about?

[quote=acE.] The only reason to ever ban an individual from a leaderboard should be cheating. [/quote] Yup that's why I suggested it.

Ah okay thanks for the clarification.

[quote] we also know that runners choose games (not the other way around) [/quote] Then what if you come up with a way that would involve the runners choosing the game(s) that would be promoted instead of the developers of the games choosing them (preferably for as cheap as possible if not for free)? Maybe choose some volunteers from the community or something that would choose the promoted game(s) with your guys' approval. That way it's at least more likely for an underrated speedgame to be promoted instead of a game that didn't even come out yet.

Speaking of which, I thought that submitting games that aren't out wasn't a thing. I know when a friend submitted a demo version of a game it got rejected the day after he submitted it, so what happened here? [quote] It's the first time we've done something like this, and we thought it was worth a test. [/quote] It probably was worth the test, but again just like every other time you've done something new, you could've avoided some mistakes if you just were more transparent to us about this idea. Maybe a thread where you'd simply say something along the lines of "Hey guys, we want to try promoting games, would you be ok with that?" and then explain how you thought it should work would've been very appreciated.

I know I've probably criticised your post a lot, but while there are some things that you guys didn't get right or could've done better, I appreciate that you took the time yet again and inform us about the situation.

[quote=Mantse007] mandatory rant about how you cant make a speedrunning game, a game will be speedrunned because people like it. [/quote]

1. It's very possible to make a speedgame, there's many examples of games being made specifically for people who speedrun, however those games don't receive the attention they would've deserved because it's a pretty new genre of games.

2. Regarding the second half of the message, there are countless games on the internet that did receive a lot of attention through playthroughs and other methods and were given very positive feedback, and yet they only have a few active runners at most. Even my only game falls into that category; it has tens of millions of plays over on flash game websites, with millions of views on YouTube, and yet there's only 10 active players. While the game itself pulled off an impressive amount of plays, the speedgame had very few promotions over its lifespan, even though every big name that has run the game claimed that it's a very good speedgame. I bet there's many many many more games that are in the same scenario which would greatly benefit from being promoted on the main website which thousands of people visit every day.

Could the Promoted game perhaps be added to the iceberg? I think it's a pretty significant addition that deserves a mention.

Were* B)

Good thing it didn't @Butterfly_Slide under the radar.

Your expectations were too @high.

Technically we can call this the @ButterflyEffect, right?

Losing my bank account.

Interesting. Maybe I'll also change from Hi one day when I get bored. Pog

Why did you change your name to @Act7?

[quote] hopefully we can show we don't like promoted games [/quote] I would honestly have nothing against promoted games if they weren't paid to be promoted. If there was a small game instead then I would've been totally okay with it, there are so many games that deserve a spark of players one way or another, but of course, they want to profit off of promoting the game and not us the runners of the game to live in a more active and bigger community.

I really dislike the direction where SR.C is going right now, their website is just a big clump of ads at the moment and all they're trying to do is add more ads and features that get them more money. We got promised mod tools this summer, it's the middle of September and as far as I can tell they're not here, nor any of the other community suggestions.

[quote] hi all [/quote] Hi

Ok I managed to solve this issue with the help of @AnInternetTroll. This is a heads up for other users that might also encounter this issue. For short, what happened to me was that there was a PHP setcookie on Brave that wasn't getting overwritten whenever I tried to log in. When you log in on Speedrun.com, if your password is correct then you're going to get a PHPSESSID which is basically a cookie that the browser sends to SR.C to identify who you are, and it changes every time you log in. What happened to me on Brave however was that there was a PHPSESSID already there that wouldn't get overwritten when I logged in on Brave, and instead I would get a second one on top of that one which would immediately disappear and thus I wouldn't get logged into the site. The reason why it worked on Chrome is that there wasn't a cookie already there, so when I tried to log in with Chrome it worked.

Now, how do you solve this issue? Press either Ctrl+Shift+I or F12 to open up the Console, then click on the >> next to Network or Sources, click on Application, then go to Cookies and click on https://www.speedrun.com.

What you want to do next is click on Filter and search "php". If you are already logged in, there should be a PHPSESSID (don't delete it if you're logged in already), but if you aren't logged in and there is a PHPSESSID then just click on it and press Delete. After that you should be able to log into your account again.

Chrome Brave

Up until yesterday I was able to log in on Brave just fine, however now I can only use Chrome to log into my account, which is annoying since Brave is my main browser.

Agreed.