Why aren't Google Earth related games allowed
5 years ago
European Union

instead of posting another thread, I'd suggest doing a small search beforehand:

kirkq's statement about rejecting Geoguessr: https://www.speedrun.com/The_Site/thread/czj4g/3#hij8t

[quote=kirkq]I rejected this. I've probably rejected it 10+ times since the site inception.

I don't really want to debate the qualifications of what's a speedrun or a game or competitive or whatever. I'm not saying it is or isn't any of those things. I'm mostly advocating that it's a very very gray line regarding what should or shouldn't be tracked on this site.

I've rejected mostly anything that is meta-googling, google maps, or wikipedia API type stuff. Similarly I've also rejected mostly anything that is solely PvP and requires an opponent to play badly, and also all visual novels as of more recently. I don't really care how many people submit PUBG fastest kill or Doki Doki Literature Club, I still think we shouldn't track those things.

You can probably find glaring exceptions to all of these. There's a lot of dumb crap on the site I'd like to delete to begin cleaning up this discrepancy. I'd rather archive it than going around destroying a bunch of information. I do not currently have a way to archive anything, which is an annoying problem.

I do not think the site should add something solely because it has a larger than average amount of people that want it added. That metric results in the lowest common denominator for adding games. It is my perception that most people on the site would prefer we add less stuff like this to this site, not more of it.

"What would happen, if it was allowed?"

  • Everyone would cite this example as the reason we should add even grayer cases.

I can understand there's a lot of people playing it and they want a way to track their stuff; I don't really like throwing any last semblance of game list quality control down the drain. What would you propose the line should be for what should and shouldn't be added to the site?[/quote]

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I've had official GBA releases denied. I've had official DOS/C64 releases denied. Official releases can be denied for being not great games, so it certainly can, and does occur very often for all sorts of web-related games.

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