Bringing in new developers / different age groups to ROBLOX is something I here frequently, but that’s going to continue to happen at a tortoise’s pace if all new prospects see when they visit the site is dank memes and ridiculous games that an older player would never play (e.g. Adopt and raise a kid / Town of Robloxia) ROBLOX should filter results such as Adopt and raise a kid off of the games page for audiences it isn’t appropriate for and populate the games page with more relevant results such as FPS, strategy, and RPG games for older players. If ROBLOX continually finds a player playing hockey games, then it should populate the games page with more hockey games. The same thing goes for ads – if I show no interest in joining war groups, I shouldn’t have their propaganda shoved in my face on a constant basis. I should see ads for strategy, RPG, and FPS games.
Tailoring games/ads specifically to users will diversify the types of games shown on the games page (which is good because playing the same games over and over again will get boring), cause the site to look more appealing to potential new users, and result in more games than ever being played (right now if you want to play a game but oops it doesn’t have anyone in it you have to move on to a front page game, but if there was a larger variety of games being displayed to players through ads + the games page then there would be a significantly greater chance there would be at least a few players in most games that might draw others’ attention)
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I’m not so sure about taking away the entire game page because you play lets say for your example hockey games. But maybe instead add a section like the ‘Top Rated’,’ Popular’. Add in another that is something like what netflix
“Top Picks based on your interests”
Of course – the goal of this is “take away irrelevant games that I’ll never play and replace them with relevant ones that I’d be interested in playing”
It’s just how can this demographic be shown. If you play one FPS game would the whole page just show FPS games or would it happen over a time period, or perhaps the player just hadn’t found a good RPG game and then they never show up later on. But I get what you mean.
It would happen over time – playing a game of a particular genre once shouldn’t impact your overall preferences at all. If you continually play Mad Murderer every day, then it would show more murder games (or similar like Darkness / Don’t Blink) on the games page. This should never completely replace all entries on the games page so you’ll always have new games that everyone else is playing.
[quote] I’m not so sure about taking away the entire game page because you play lets say for your example hockey games. But maybe instead add a section like the ‘Top Rated’,’ Popular’. Add in another that is something like what netflix
“Top Picks based on your interests” [/quote]
I give you “Recommended”, I do think it needs more work. Possibly having not just your game history to work off of, but also how much time you spend in those types of games? For me personally, I don’t see an interesting game until 4 rows down on my recommended section, while I could see how it might think I’d like other games because of random games I’ve checked out seeking a Diamond in the Rough. But I only spent 1-2 minutes in those games, while I’ve spent hours in Phantom Forces recently, and I don’t see any decent combat games until 5 rows down.
I’m pretty sure “Recommended” doesn’t work off your played games history. Mine literally has 0 games I’d ever play. The only games I ever play are Apoc Rising, and some fps games. And yet my recommended shows me games like ROBLOX’s top model, adopt a kid, five nights at freddies. Anyway I can’t say that it’s working off my history. But yeah sure change that up and make it work better. But I always figured it was just a recommendation of a game you might like because of it’s popularity not that it’s based off your history.
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