Arcade

[The Don]

Not really, stating you disagree with it =/= torn apart.

Pro:
- Arcade has recent high scores, not 3 year old highscores Not necessarily a bad thing and nothing prevents people from getting high scores today.
- Arcade has active high scorers, not people who haven't been here in 3 years Same as point above
- Along with other changes, gives arcade new lease of life
- People feel as if they may be able to reach those, encourages playing ~ possibly No proof behind this reasoning. People don't play due to lack of advertising and no new games, not because of scores. Even so why should people that have spent considerable time getting those scores be punished by having them removed?
- We have more than 3-5 people playing the Arcade per month ~ possibly This can be done by improving the arcade and adding new games, not by removing the scores.

Literally no evidence to suggest removing the high scores will increase usage. Adding new games and advertising the arcade more will increase usage, alienating users by removing their scores won't.

Edit: Damnit @FlyingJesus; you beat me to it.

[buttons]

why doesnt it save my score

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and no really ive never played arcade before cause whats point if u cant even get into top 5

[The Don]

why doesnt it save my score

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and no really ive never played arcade before cause whats point if u cant even get into top 5

so we should delete someones score because it's too high for you to beat? what's even the point in having scores in that case...

[buttons]

did i say anything about deleting scores i just said ive never had interest in it for that reason, cause u said there's no evidence it'll make people play more

and again, y does it not save my scores

[The Don]

did i say anything about deleting scores i just said ive never had interest in it for that reason, cause u said there's no evidence it'll make people play more

and again, y does it not save my scores

No you didn't but Scott did which your post was supporting so its implied through context. My apologies if you don't think the scores should be reset though

[buttons]

no i don't care, i don't play the arcade. and not gonna continue as it aint saving my scores, only saved on bloody pingu cause it gave me option to save it

[MKR&*42]

Which game didn't it save on Jen. I played one game yday where it never gave me an option to save either but I can't recall which game..

[buttons]

the arcade must have been reset before? as ive played all games before and don't have any scores apparently and all the scores appear to be after 2012

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Which game didn't it save on Jen. I played one game yday where it never gave me an option to save either but I can't recall which game..

bejeweled and angry birds

[MKR&*42]

the arcade must have been reset before? as ive played all games before and don't have any scores apparently and all the scores appear to be after 2012

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bejeweled and angry birds

Oh I think bejeweled saved for me last night, Snake was the one that didn't.

[Inseriousity.]

Okay I'll explain another way:

Your argument: Resetting the arcade will encourage new members to play and older members to retain their score:

Option 1: Reset the arcade every 3 months.

The older members won't bother to retain their score if their effort is just going to be wasted in 3 months time.
The newer members will use the arcade then not bother (see above) once the 3 months is up.
And so on and so on until no-one's using it.

Option 2: Reset the arcade as a one off

The older members will still have the training from months/years "playing the game to master every technique" so will retain their high score in time, possibly even within the week and possibly with a higher score than before the reset because they won't have necessarily bothered trying to beat it again.
The newer members will play for a while until that process is complete.
The arcade is returned back to its original state.

I'm not saying you have to do nothing (my original post in this thread was a joke btw). I see no problem with adding new games, creating tournaments, having little competitions (although I would change them slightly from your original proposal). I am arguing with the options above that any sort of reset system within the arcade will not solve any issues.

If it is true as you say that the arcade is for "competitiveness and beating the high score", then me, rosy, Lewis being "upset that [our] progress has gone" is false because it's not "progress" being at the top. That's called winning and you're just a bad loser if you have to reset the score to zero to beat it.

I will quote my "tearing it apart". Fundamentally, a reset of the scoring will not solve the issue of activity. I think you can see from most of the games in the arcade that even those games where the high score was set in 2012, on the front page of the highscores, there are people within distance of reaching it who have played it in 2014. Therefore the high score itself does not necessarily suggest that people are put off from participating; it is instead other factors (mainly a lack of advertising and dust-settling). This is not conjecture, guesswork or opinion. This evidence can be found by simply looking at the games so it is fact used to justify a logical conclusion.

It is the 'other initiatives' that you suggest in conjunction with a reset that will help boost the arcade. This thread alone has advertised it and now has a few more people participating because they've remembered it actually exists. That is the main issue with the arcade and as demonstrated in the argument above, any reset will not work to achieve that aim.