Unbiased Game Reviews Through Micropayments

Posted by Hemos on Sunday August 3, 2003 @11:52PM from the cool-ideas dept.

a reader writes:"Fed up of games reviewers giving in to advertiser pressure to go easy on high-budget turkeys? A group of distinguished British videogames journalists has set up an independent site called Digiworld. It's funded by an interesting micropayment system: you pay 50 pence (about 80 cents US) a week for full access, although new content is available for free on weekdays (details here). For extra geek appeal, the look of the site imitates the 8-bit Mode 7 graphics of Teletext, a British system that uses spare TV signal bandwidth to transmit pages of textual information (some of the staff previously worked on a Teletext gaming page called Digitiser). Even if you're not a gamer, the bizarre humor and characters make the site worth checking out."

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gah. horrible site design by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-04 01:04 · Score: 4, Interesting

If I'm going to pay 80 cents a week, as low as that is, I want to be able to read the site. God, the design of that site is *horrendous*. I gave up after the second 'tour' page and just started randomly clicking. It turns out the entire *site* is just that bad.

I've got a 1920x1200 screen but their pages display about 30 words per page, have awful colors and one of the stupidest navigation systems I've ever seen.

I can only imagine that a half-decent game review will take up perhaps 3,000 words which, at the words per page rate of the examples I saw, would take probably 50 pages - not including any screenshots they may want to offer.

Gaaah. My head hurts.