Comment by zavulon | Hacker News Reader

Comment by zavulon | Hacker News Reader

I really hope this means there will be a better way to find games. When I search for "rpg", what I really want is an old school RPG game, you know, where you kill monsters, solve quests and get XP points. Instead, I get a massive amount of MMORPG's (which are not really RPG's at all), and "Do you want to be Chris Brown" applications.

On the same token, when I search for "adventure" games, I really want to find games like Sam & Max or Monkey Island. Instead, I see a whole bunch of kids games, and at best, "find a hidden object" games. Not what I want at ALL.

http://rpg-site.com/ and http://toucharcade.com/category/games/adventure/ help, but they still miss a lot of stuff.

Edit: tried out Chomp, it doesn't help. This problem would be ridiculously easy to solve with letting users tag apps

"This problem would be ridiculously easy to solve with letting users tag apps"

Are you sure? That would be abused for SEO in about two nanoseconds.

IMHO, the app store has too few categories to put apps in. A richer taxonomy would be better.

Also only works if the tags match up to your expectations. It's easy to imagine a perfect world where every old school RPG is tagged with old-school-rpg but that doesn't really seem likely.

"solve with letting users tag apps"

That just leads to Shady Developers Ltd. hiring Shady Astroturfers, Inc. to spam tags on his competitors.

this is a solveable problem. i've done it, in fact.

In a situation where the stakes were basically limited to reputation and informational content perhaps, but not with serious money on the line. When tag-turfing can swing thousands of dollars an hour I have less hope that the host can outwit all of the possible parasite variations.

The perception was that the data was being fed into search engines. So I think the stakes were similarly high.

http://www.quixey.com/search?q=rpg&platform=2004

http://www.quixey.com/search?q=old+school+RPG&platform=2...

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