Keep it clean
If you believe that a wish duplicates another one or is not meant for the category, use Options button above to report a duplicate or spam.
Add your wish
If there is an item you wish to have on GOG.com and it’s not yet on the wishlist, please add your wish
Recommendations based on wishlist / bought games
Added by
deus_ Implement a recommender system: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system ||| It should be based on my wishlist / previous bought games / game ratings, and recommend games that other people with a similar taste bought / rated high. ||| Free games should be excluded from the calculation, to prevent skewed results. ||| It should be honest and not be abused for promotional campaigns. Might want to calculate the results only when requested, to address privacy concerns. ||| Could also be linked to the "Requested Games" section to generate more upvotes for the requests (thus convincing the publishers).
##@@##@@ Erm... How do I put this? While this wish initially sounds good, it becomes quickly apparent that the implementation wouldn't be of any use. Implementing a recommendation system that actually produces useful results is pretty tricky and requires lots of work by analysts 'as well as' programmers. Visit a few game pages and check out the "PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT IT ALSO BOUGHT" box. That would be pretty much what awaits you. You wouldn't get a list of "hidden gems", you would get seemingly random picks from the bestsellers list. And you can already look at that one.
GOG's deals and games are good, but there are so many(!) things wrong, missing or flat out broken with this website that I have no hopes for any recommender system they would implement.
madammina Yeah I agree. I'm not really a huge PC gamer, and I have a large backlog, so having a recommended so I can find either new/indie games I wouildn't have known about, or lesser known gems, would be great. This way I can try more things and expand, vs just "What I know" or something like that.
LokKinYeung This would really help us find the lesser-known gems in the GoG catalog. For instance, without last week's strategy game bundle, I would never have known about King of Dragon Pass, which is an awesome game that I wouldn't have bought otherwise.
groenroos Just to clarify, the "Recommended" tab doesn't cut it for me; I'm not interested in any game it currently has to offer, and there's no way of marking games as uninteresting to alter the recommendations. I also don't know why it's recommending these things to me - I wouldn't have guessed that buying Sam & Max and Machinarium means I'd be interested in Baldur's Gate 2. The recommendations need to be more interactive and more visible. :)
groenroos I don't understand why this doesn't have more attention. Personally I couldn't care less about all the fantasy MMOs, text adventures and ancient FPSes that seem to be so numerous here, so some kind of Netflix-style intelligence to promote stuff that would interest me based on my purchase history and wishlists would be gravy.
richardmv I think just using ratings for recommendations would be better. I often buy or wish for games that I think will be great but end up being only okay or worse (case in point: Spore, one of the biggest let-downs ever IMO).
NightK Or something like Amazon's Recommendations ;-)
Tevosion.480 Do you mean something like in Last.fm? With a tag system?
8 comments about this wish