Quote from: CRKrueger;695453If he'd clarified what he's doing and mentioned this is just the trial run, that would be one thing, but he didn't.  He put a Hot Games tab up on his site, to answer the questions...

Uh, he did qualify it.  Extensively.  He's only run two tests.  He just posted what he got, having thrown it into an excel sheet and typing in a few titles.  

How about this CRKrueger: what what make this more interesting to you, that he could plausibly tweak? Is there some verbiage you'd like to see, or additional data, or some additional sources for data, or what?

OK I asked him to add these:

//www.therpgsite.com

//www.travellerrpg.com

//odd74.proboards.com

//www.dragonsfoot.org

And he responded that for him to include data it needs an accessible RSS feed and he wasn't finding one for any of those sites.

I see we have an RSS feed for the reviews forum of this board.  Is there one for this forum?

Even though I don't post much at ENWorld, I think that Morrus is pretty decent and the moderators there seem okay.  I'm not sure why this thread is veering into conspiratard territory.

For one thing he could stop calling his partial test run the "Gaming Zeitgeist", I mean sheesh, seriously?  Just poking fun at him...kinda.

As far as data analysis goes, I know what I would want to look at, or what I think WotC might want to look at, but that requires something more then looking at RSS feeds, that requires some Google people turning loose some good web-analytics at the info or some professional data guys coming up with the right queries, something Morris obviously doesn't have the cashflow for.

That's the problem, good data analysis costs money, so it's much much cheaper to go with a blanket eyeballs count and call it good, which leads to very superficial interpretations, like
"The Hottest* Game is game X!"
(*for undefined values of Hotness.)

Quote from: Mistwell;695439You're looking for some "publicity" motive where there isn't one...at least no more than anything a guy who posts something to his site has when that site is for-profit.  Are Pundit's posts here "for publicity"?

I'd barely call this site "for-profit".  We raked in a whopping $60 last month.

Quote from: RPGPundit;695947I'd barely call this site "for-profit".  We raked in a whopping $60 last month.

Some Cambodian guys somewhere are jealous of your massive wealth

Is there an RSS feed of this message board, by the way?

Quote from: RPGPundit;695947I'd barely call this site "for-profit".  We raked in a whopping $60 last month.

To be fair it is about $155 in local purchasing power relative to the United States.

Quote from: Mistwell;696157Is there an RSS feed of this message board, by the way?

I don't think there is.