Resolved - My Rejections - Informational

[FoxyMonty]

I thought I'd keep a thread about any rejections I receive and getting them resolved.

• I submitted a change for a video url for Left 4 Dead 2.
• Current Version
• My Suggested Version

My suggestion is better quality and from the official developer, cannot understand why it has been rejected and no reasons were given.

Any suggestions?

[Cebion]

First of all any rejection has a rejection reason in it. If the change received 3 rejections the reasons become visible.

Now for the reason why it was rejected.

I didn't moderate this one but I would have rejected it also. The reason is simple it has no gameplay in it. I want to look at the video and see how the game is. 

[Belgarath]

But it's the same as the video that's already there except it's better quality..

[Cebion]

39 minutes ago, Belgarath said:

But it's the same as the video that's already there except it's better quality..

Yes but why replace a wrong thing with a wrong thing with a better quality. I would have written in the rejection

"We aim for gameplay footage instead of trailer / teaser videos. Please review your submission and make a delete request or change the existing one for a gameplay video."

 

@FoxyMonty do you have anything else?

Edited November 26, 2016 by Cebion

[FoxyMonty]

Okay this makes perfect sense. Didn't see anything about this written in the contributions guidelines so wasn't sure. I'll get this fixed and uploaded then.


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[Cebion]

2 hours ago, FoxyMonty said:

Okay this makes perfect sense. Didn't see anything about this written in the contributions guidelines so wasn't sure. I'll get this fixed and uploaded then.

Well, it's not in the guidelines

@SentaiBrad

[SentaiBrad]

Well, video links haven't been a problem. I actually think a trailer is perfectly fine too by the way. If you want game play, there's Emu Movies for that. So actually, If you want me to change it I will have the guidelines reflect that trailers are perfectly acceptable. 

[FoxyMonty]

I just looked through some of my videos, not sure which came from EmuMovies but a large amount of them for windows anyway are tv spot/trailers rather than plain gameplay footage.

Should there be 2 categories created for videos, Gameplay & Trailers?

[SentaiBrad]

That's probably the best idea @FoxyMonty. If it's straight gameplay, then it's probably from EmuMovies and is downloaded from within LaunchBox with LB Premium and EmuMovies Premium. You can access the video from their site or ftp with premium as well. In this case though, these would be YouTube links, so there might not be any crossover. I've long since asked Jason if straight YouTube streaming inside of LB could be possible too. The only reason why I say that two categories might not be a great idea is because of EM crossing over. The video is already downloaded within LB assuming a user is set up for that, and this can undermine that. That's partly why I am leaning way more towards the videos being trailers.

[FoxyMonty]

Yeah I can understand it would be very difficult to distinguish between the two and categorize them. Either need to accept only gameplay or trailers or open the doors to both.

People will have their own preferences on whether they want gameplay only or don't mind trailers. A game isn't limited to downloading only one video per game is it? 

If not then people can adjust that themselves and delete the videos they do not want, if you allow for both.

Edited November 26, 2016 by FoxyMonty

[Cebion]

It really depends on what we're doing with the field video url. Some people use the database without launchbox that's why I'm keen on the idea of gameplay videos. I like @FoxyMonty of having both fields. I mean steam does this too.

 

[Vlansix]

Guidelines / Rejection question. Closing thread. FYI - Moderation log is on the tracker, so it may help with this in the future as well.