Blaine
CAGiversary!
I know there are a lot of Goozex fans. I'm also sure that some people might not care that other users are scamming the system pretty hard. But it does bother me, I'm sure it might bother someone else.
The Goozex system is, painted with a really broad brush, broken.
You can buy or trade to acquire points. You can also use referral to gain more points for new members. All well and good, I work in social networking software, I know how important new users are.
This, in and of itself, doesn't make the system broken. The fact that Goozex proper is unwilling or unable to police exploits to the referral system IS what makes it broken.
Check it out, Goozex user Itzyuik has been posting phoney and suspicious game listings all week. I've cleared out two of them myself by requesting the game and letting it time out. He was offering "Planet of The Apes" for the Dreamcast - a game that doesn't exist.
He's traded to other "users" games that don't exist, like the awesomely titled "Frank IIII" for the Dreamcast. The user he traded it to gave him positive feedback. It requires almost NO internet batmannery to smell the bullshit on this trade.
The fact that Goozex lets you attempt to trade games that don't even exist is it's own problem that just makes it easier to do this kind of spoofing.
Even right now, I'm posting this because I need to vent my anger, because people doing this devalues the rest of the users points - it's literally equivalent to counterfeiting. There's nothing backing these points up, no game introduced into the goozex system, no cash paid to goozex (which they could in turn use to inject new games into the system), nothing.
And while no one asked me to do it - why am I the only one noticing this? That's just sad. They really need to get their house in order.
I work for a really small social networking start up. We have like 6 fulltime employees, all with regular duties (I'm the art director and in charge of game development. Other people are Java programmers, web programmers, database programmers) and we can manage 5,000 users. This level of house keeping is insignificant as far as man power goes. Our marketing team, made up of mostly college students are capable of noticing chicanery in account creation and use.
Honestly, missing this is tantamount to apathy or incompetence.
I was negative on goozex when it came out, I didn't like the idea of paying to trade. I did a complete 180. I love it now, recommended it to everyone and I've managed to move a small amount of games that I didn't care for into a large amount of new games with little out of pocket expense.
That love is starting to atrophy and I'm beginning to wonder if my first instinct wasn't correct.
>>> UPDATE
The Goozex system is, painted with a really broad brush, broken.
You can buy or trade to acquire points. You can also use referral to gain more points for new members. All well and good, I work in social networking software, I know how important new users are.
This, in and of itself, doesn't make the system broken. The fact that Goozex proper is unwilling or unable to police exploits to the referral system IS what makes it broken.
Check it out, Goozex user Itzyuik has been posting phoney and suspicious game listings all week. I've cleared out two of them myself by requesting the game and letting it time out. He was offering "Planet of The Apes" for the Dreamcast - a game that doesn't exist.
He's traded to other "users" games that don't exist, like the awesomely titled "Frank IIII" for the Dreamcast. The user he traded it to gave him positive feedback. It requires almost NO internet batmannery to smell the bullshit on this trade.
The fact that Goozex lets you attempt to trade games that don't even exist is it's own problem that just makes it easier to do this kind of spoofing.
Even right now, I'm posting this because I need to vent my anger, because people doing this devalues the rest of the users points - it's literally equivalent to counterfeiting. There's nothing backing these points up, no game introduced into the goozex system, no cash paid to goozex (which they could in turn use to inject new games into the system), nothing.
And while no one asked me to do it - why am I the only one noticing this? That's just sad. They really need to get their house in order.
I work for a really small social networking start up. We have like 6 fulltime employees, all with regular duties (I'm the art director and in charge of game development. Other people are Java programmers, web programmers, database programmers) and we can manage 5,000 users. This level of house keeping is insignificant as far as man power goes. Our marketing team, made up of mostly college students are capable of noticing chicanery in account creation and use.
Honestly, missing this is tantamount to apathy or incompetence.
I was negative on goozex when it came out, I didn't like the idea of paying to trade. I did a complete 180. I love it now, recommended it to everyone and I've managed to move a small amount of games that I didn't care for into a large amount of new games with little out of pocket expense.
That love is starting to atrophy and I'm beginning to wonder if my first instinct wasn't correct.
>>> UPDATE
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s can get the same amount of points for virtually nothing. Let's hope goozex does something about it.
