Re:Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing A...
by sellyme on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:32PM
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> Interesting they have a “Time To Beat” field but it’s not really populated.
Time to beat is a very difficult metric. Does a Visual Novel take 10 hours to beat, or 2 minutes? I'd argue the latter, but I know plenty of people would disagree with me.
"Alright," says the webadmin, "I'll just implement a voting system and take the average". But now they'll be claiming that it takes 5 hours and 1 minute to beat, which everyone disagrees with.
The best system I've seen is SteamHunters' "Shortest/Median/Average", which gives you a pretty reliable indicator of what's possible, what's typical, and how much of a difference there is between optimal and casual play, respectively. It's by far the most comprehensive dataset out there, but unfortunately only mono-platform so probably not too useful for sites like igdb.
Time to beat is a very difficult metric. Does a Visual Novel take 10 hours to beat, or 2 minutes? I'd argue the latter, but I know plenty of people would disagree with me.
"Alright," says the webadmin, "I'll just implement a voting system and take the average". But now they'll be claiming that it takes 5 hours and 1 minute to beat, which everyone disagrees with.
The best system I've seen is SteamHunters' "Shortest/Median/Average", which gives you a pretty reliable indicator of what's possible, what's typical, and how much of a difference there is between optimal and casual play, respectively. It's by far the most comprehensive dataset out there, but unfortunately only mono-platform so probably not too useful for sites like igdb.