This website is too hard to use
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:44 pm
I really appreciate the efforts to bring 3d gaming to the masses...
However,
I am disapointed with many things about this site.
1) Sometimes posting requires me to log in again and sometimes goes to some screen where it wants me to edit my profile. It isn't consistent and I have tried from different PCs. Eventually I can get in and post but sometimes it takes repeated tries and starting over by getting into the forums again.
2) The links page is pretty empty. There are links in these forums posted by users and other website forums to different 3d helpful websites and manufacturers that should be here.
3) The unofficial games database is too hard to use. Screenshots are a nice bonus but shouldn't be required. I just want to be able to look up a game alphabetically and get whatever info users have posted about it as to how compatable they think it is and what drivers/setting they used. I don't even mind if if someone posts very limited info that says a game name and a 1-5 ranking for 3d compatability and what type of system they have (i.e. stereo Nvidia drivers). It would be nice if it could give an "average user rating". We should be able to sort by user rating. Sorting could also be done with game type (i.e. Racing, Flying, FPS, Roll Playing, etc). You may want to look at TrackIR's web site and see how they do their database of supported games. They also link to game demo's when they are available for a particular title.
I understand that you have to cater to official sponsors and certified titles, but if you can't make this a "one stop shop" for people looking for 3d stereo information and tutorials then there just won't be any traffic here. The site also doesn't feel very user friendly. First impressions are everything and the casual gamer interested in 3d will just not spend much time here and may never come back. If you need to keep this site catering more to game companies than gamers then you may want to partner with another site and move gamer related content over to that site.
Thank you for your efforts and I hope the site continues to improve.
Chris
However,
I am disapointed with many things about this site.
1) Sometimes posting requires me to log in again and sometimes goes to some screen where it wants me to edit my profile. It isn't consistent and I have tried from different PCs. Eventually I can get in and post but sometimes it takes repeated tries and starting over by getting into the forums again.
2) The links page is pretty empty. There are links in these forums posted by users and other website forums to different 3d helpful websites and manufacturers that should be here.
3) The unofficial games database is too hard to use. Screenshots are a nice bonus but shouldn't be required. I just want to be able to look up a game alphabetically and get whatever info users have posted about it as to how compatable they think it is and what drivers/setting they used. I don't even mind if if someone posts very limited info that says a game name and a 1-5 ranking for 3d compatability and what type of system they have (i.e. stereo Nvidia drivers). It would be nice if it could give an "average user rating". We should be able to sort by user rating. Sorting could also be done with game type (i.e. Racing, Flying, FPS, Roll Playing, etc). You may want to look at TrackIR's web site and see how they do their database of supported games. They also link to game demo's when they are available for a particular title.
I understand that you have to cater to official sponsors and certified titles, but if you can't make this a "one stop shop" for people looking for 3d stereo information and tutorials then there just won't be any traffic here. The site also doesn't feel very user friendly. First impressions are everything and the casual gamer interested in 3d will just not spend much time here and may never come back. If you need to keep this site catering more to game companies than gamers then you may want to partner with another site and move gamer related content over to that site.
Thank you for your efforts and I hope the site continues to improve.
Chris