GMG Mystery Bundles

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So GreenManGaming is selling Mystery Bundles now

http://www.greenmangaming.com/mystery-bundles/

3 games for $4.99 / 5 games for $6.99

Did you buy this bundle? what did you get?

Edit: Seems like the bundle is crap: http://www.steamgifts.com/go/comment/lhr2Jh6

8 years ago*

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joeythesaint

I was weak, weak, weak. I knew it would end poorly. I knew it. But I bought the ten-pack anyway.

Then I decided I would post a review because I needed some way to cleanse myself and the bleach-and-brillo-pad wasn't doing it.

I rated the bundle 27%. I was going to give it 27.2, because that's what my honest review came to, but cardinal numbers only for this shit casserole, so 27% it is. I explained my methodology. I'll be flabberghasted if they post the review, though, so here's my review for your own amusement.

I bought ten games. I hit the Steam reviews for each of them (after I stopped crying). The ratings ranged from "Very Positive" (fiiiiine) to "Very Negative". Okay, I've got a range I should be able to turn into an objectively quantifiable number. Let's have a go at this.

If they were all "Very Positive" and I gave each of them a score of two points, that'd give me 20 points maxium, easy to convert that to a percentage. So work backward from that.

Very Positive = 2
Positive = 1
Mixed = 0
Negative = -1
Very Negative = -2

It was easy since I didn't have anything outside that range of five value.

On that scale my rating would've been 60%. Slightly more good than shit, where mixed reviews did nothing to influence the final result. Not bad. But then I looked more closely at the games. I'm trying to give a rating that others might use to make a decision (setting aside that anyone seriously considering this in the first case is probably suffering from some severe head trauma and likely can't read numbers ... my excuse is I drink a lot, what's yours?). So maybe what's important here is less how good the games are and more how likely people are to get good games they actually want.

Ah, now we're getting somewhere.

One of the games I received was released this year. Odds are much better that someone buying this bundle wouldn't already have that game than this other game I received that was released in 2003. Yes, thirteen years ago. And it was a "very positive". If it was such a good game and it is 13 flippin' years old, nearly everyone must have it, so it should influence my score much less.

How to represent that?

So I did a simple scaling factor. The scaling I applied is the two-digit year of the release divided by the two-digit current year. So the highest "VP" game I received was released in 2015, meaning of a possible 2 points to the final score, it contributed 1.874, while the "VP" game released in 2003 contributed a mere 0.374 (less than a game with only a "P" review score).

So my formula looks like this:

(Sigma [ ((game score (Rel Year / Now)) ] / 20) 100

The /20 factor is to scale this from a range of 0-20 into something I can easily multiply by 100 to get a percentage.

Is my methodology full of bias and discounting many, many potentially significant factors? Sure. Do you care? If so, work up your own methodology. If not, climb aboard my shame-train.

And finally, because I'm out of space to create more giveaways right now and I've already started activating games from the list I wouldn't normally keep but they're not even worth enough to be bothered giving them away and I STILL have one outhouse-key left over, here you go, take this one out back and put it out of its misery for me, please.

NANINIGHTS: XNZR0 Q2MDC I3DXB

... aw hell, and it also turns out I can't even give away one of these games (no surprise there). Have at this one, too. Ugh.

BLACKSHADOWS:IBLFY-X28AZ-VZ60Q

I can't even be bothered to obscure that one. Though I'd be nice to know how long it hangs around before someone claims it. :-)

Have a good one all, learn from my mistakes. At least some of them.

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8 years ago