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Message started by VernJensen on 20.04.2007 at 15:11:41

Title: Download.com Ratings
Post by VernJensen on 20.04.2007 at 15:11:41
Okay, so this *is* related to Midnight Mansion, I just didn't know where else to put it. I could use your help! It seems Download.com added a "ratings" feature at some point, and while Midnight Mansion has gotten great positive comments, no one has made use of the Ratings feature, which could help a bit more. So if you have a free minute, go here and give it 5 stars:

http://www.download.com/Midnight-Mansion/3000-2275_4-10624857.html?tag=lst-0-5

Look at the "Average user rating" just below the Download Now link. There is a blue "Rate it!" link there. You have to become a member to rate it (free), which is a nuisance, but I suppose that way each person can rate it only once.

I'm hoping to get into the "Highest Rated" category. I don't know if you need an editorial review to get there, or if user reviews can do it, but only 2 Mac games are in that category right now, so I figure why not try.

Title: Re: Download.com Ratings
Post by Wingy on 20.04.2007 at 19:26:43
Shouldn't it be 1.0.8?  :o :-? :-/ I need an account. That means spam. Sorry, I couldn't rate.

Title: Re: Download.com Ratings
Post by VernJensen on 22.04.2007 at 02:04:26

Anthony wrote on 20.04.2007 at 19:26:43:
Shouldn't it be 1.0.8?  :o :-? :-/ I need an account. That means spam. Sorry, I couldn't rate.


It will be 1.0.8 when they get around to updating their listing. That usually takes several weeks for Download.com, but works out well, because when they do finally get around to updating it, I get listed on their front page for several days.

Title: Re: Download.com Ratings
Post by Semi-Native on 22.04.2007 at 19:16:38
Vern, on Apple's web site, the Downloads section still has version 1.0.5 of Midnight Mansion. Can you send them an update, too?

Title: Re: Download.com Ratings
Post by VernJensen on 23.04.2007 at 07:25:14
Ahhh, thanks for mentioning that! I just "discovered" a whole area of Apple's web site I had never known about. You see, I had previously been using a completely different form to submit Midnight Mansion updates to the Apple Software Guide, and they removed the ability to list version numbers on that, so you can't even submit updates. But that's *completely* separate from this other page for Midnight Mansion that you saw, whicih I just discovered! And that has its own submission process. Wow.

Anyway, I've resubmitted for that, so they'll hopefully update that listing soon. Man, to think all this time, for versions 1.0.6 and 1.0.7, I missed all the traffic that being updated on Apple's site could have brought!

Title: Re: Download.com Ratings
Post by VernJensen on 23.04.2007 at 12:53:38
Here's what I *used* to be updating whenever I released a new version of Midnight Mansion, but then they even removed the ability to have version numbers listed.

http://guide.apple.com/action.lasso?-database=macosguide&-layout=cgi_detail&-response=/ussearch/detail.html&prodkey=68969&-search

I always thought the Macintosh Products Guide was rather bare-bones. So it's refreshing to see Apple has an entirely *different* area that's much nicer:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/

I will be keeping them up-to-date now.

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