Move Featured and Top Rated sort to the top of the Games page

[Aqualotl]

The title kind of says it. When someone joins ROBLOX for the first time and they look on the Games page, it’s usually has click baity, bait and switch games flooding the Popular sort. Now, I’m not calling these games out as bad; this is not the intention of this thread. What I’m suggesting is that the Featured and Top Rated games should be moved to the top. These games are hand picked by the community as well as the administrators and are a good representation of what ROBLOX has to offer. I personally would like see these games as the face of ROBLOX rather than “Build a Cart Ride and Ride it 9,000,000 Feet to Admins Tycoon”

[wish_z]

i don’t agree with moving “Top Rated” to the top, because the current top 3 games are paid access

[Aqualotl]

They are chosen by the community as a Top Rated game. What prevents a paid access game from reaching the top of Popular? Sure it may be more difficult, but it’s possible.

[wish_z]

@Lion2323

When someone joins ROBLOX for the first time

If they can’t play the first game they click on, it gives a bad impression of Roblox, right? Roblox is touted as being “free”.

Also, sure, it may be possible for a Paid Access game to be Most Popular, but that’s a bad example. A better example is “Top Earning”, where there have undoubtedly been Paid Access games there before. The highest Paid Access game on Top Earning is “Welcome To Bloxburg”, which is #10 and has 300 PC players right now.

I think better categories to be prevalent are “Featured” and the “Because You Like _______” (seriously the algorithm for that IS ON POINT) row – which can be replaced with Recommended for new users until they like their first game. Maybe a refresh option to cycle through your liked games?

[Fractality_alt]

####Problems, from most to least concern

1. Featured isn’t determined by users. The first games people see on the games page should be determined by users.
2. Top Rated contains lots of betas, paid-access games, tech demos, etc.–games which are unsuitable for normal users
3. Top Rated has lots of inertia (Brick Bronze has probably been up there for a year)

####Opinionated bullet points

• Popular needs a ratings filter but it should stay up top.
• Top Earning is the least relevant category and should be lower than #2. Normal users don’t care about how much the developer is earning.

[EchoReaper]

@Fractality_alt

Nobody cares about how much the developer is earning.

Nobody who’s interested in playing games* to be precise. But yeah, definitely not useful enough to be #2

[Fractality_alt]

@EchoReaper

Nobody who’s interested in playing games* to be precise.

Yeah, edited to reflect that

[Crykee]

I disagree, I think top earning games are there because the user enjoys the game enough to spend their money on it. It also means that the game is user friendly enough for players to fully understand and be more secure in spending their money on that game’s purchases.

Out of all the categories, Top Earning is one of the most reliable in terms of providing good gameplay because of the above factors imo.

[1waffle1 (Waffle)]

a new “trending” sort that is based on the number of favorites in the past week multiplied by the thumbs ratio.

[FearMeIAmLag]

I’m just gonna leave this here, good idea btw

Change the Games Page

It is in my personal interest and quite possibly in the interest of every serious developer on Roblox that the games page should be fixed to favor better games rather than silly one-off games. This thread had quite a bit of support for moving Top Rated to the top of the games page and that was 2 years ago, before the problems became as prominent as they are now. For anyone interested, the following is a list of reasons why and how the games page should be modified to create a better gaming expe…

[PlaceRebuilder]

No. I agree with everything quoted bellow.

@Fractality_alt

Featured isn’t determined by users. The first games people see on the games page should be determined by users.

Top Rated contains lots of betas, paid-access games, tech demos, etc.–games which are unsuitable for normal users

Top Rated has lots of inertia (Brick Bronze has probably been up there for a year)

Can we please stop with this whole: “Down with the popular tab!” posts? The game with most players right now, is the most popular game, right now.

You don’t like clickbait games being popular and therefore the categories should change? It’s like saying I don’t like the president so I want to remove democracy.