Popular Post drummerklg Posted May 23, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted May 23, 2013 (edited) I know we have tips, but a full trophy guide would bring more people to the site! How? People search online for a guide all the time, they usually see ps3trophies.org or .com, now what if they saw psnprofiles.com? They would check the guide out, and then join the site after finding out how great our members are! =) On other sites, if there is more than one guide submitted for the same guide, they choose the better guide, I feel we shouldn't add that here, it would suck to make a guide and then not have yours picked, after all the hard work =/. This is a trophy site, and we have news, forums, status updates, but one thing we don't have, is trophy guides, that would really boost psnprofiles to the next level! I would gladly start this off with a trophy guide for the last of us! It's sad how I always see a lot of guests at the bottom of the page, let us make those guests, members! What do you guys think? =) Edited May 23, 2013 by drummerklg 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_Cutscene Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 As much as I love this site, PS3Trophies.org is far too well established with its guides and their community does them so well, it would probably only work most effectively if the sites themselves merged into one uber site. I like the idea of them either promoting, fleshing out and/or tweaking the way trophy tips work on the site. They don't seem to be as utilized as much as they could be, at least there isn't much of an incentive to do so. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beauty Blade Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 I would happily help make guides for the community here. I think it's a great idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightWing127 Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 It's a great idea. We can do the same thing or better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simpo Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 I believe this is in the pipeline, may just need to be patient with this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoreTheVictim Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 No we should not. Trust me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curb Posted May 23, 2013 Share Posted May 23, 2013 I believe this is in the pipeline, may just need to be patient with this one. This. Sly's working on it, and I don't know how much he wants to promise or reveal as of yet, so I won't say much more than that. But I can tell you that his plan is much, much better than anything you'll find on .org or .com. Just be patient. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solstice779 Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 like Cutscene said, ps3t already does this quite well and I use their guides whenever I'm going after trophies, but I wouldn't mind if we implemented the idea around here as well. I'd love to chip in and even make a guide for a game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Undrey Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Trophy tips are good enough IMO. Guides should be a group effort and not just by one or two people. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legend Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I love the idea of trophy tips. Why can't we just expand the idea of tips a little bit instead of making full blown guides? That wouldn't really be bringing anything new to the community of various trophy related website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memnoch Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 again as Simpo and Curb said, it'll be here one day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post allenbird Posted May 24, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted May 24, 2013 I think guides would be a great idea, but my problem with guides in general is they are done in such a sloppy fashion by people who haven't actually played the game. One mistake made in a guide can increase playtime in any game. I wouldn't mind guides as long as we had a competent team that has played games to make sure the information is correct. Don't just approve guides based on format, but on actual content. People take heresay for truth and in trophy guides that can mean hours and hours of lost playtime. Believe me I know what one small detail left off a guide can mean. Recently a bunch of us did a run for the Endwar platinum. There are some things written on an xbox forum and most ideas are taken from that without testing them on PS3. Alot of the glitches spoken of in the xbox forum did not translate to the PS3 version as we disproved several of them. Of course all of this takes alot of work and I would not suggest going backwards and putting a backlogg og guides for old games. Trophy tips do help for sure. Who needs a guide telling you that this trophy or that trophy is for completeing level 1 or 2. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightWing127 Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 Time to make a guide who'll start first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eternal21 Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I very much doubt you'll beat PS3Trophies.org guide quality. They have multiple writers, and rigorous approval process. People are actually fighting over who gets to write the next guide, and most of them are posted the day the game comes out. All you really need is a link to the guide. This site should concentrate on things it does best - like Gaming Sessions for example. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beyondthegrave07 Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I think we should have a program on this website that'll make it so we just have to plug in the information for each trophy and a place for an overview of all the trophies. However, I think the "make a guide" feature should only be available to those who HAVE THE PLATNUM (we already have this feature where you can't submit a tip unless you've earned the trophy, it'd be the same thing)! For instance, I should be able to make a guide on Quantum of Solace, PS All Stars, or Borderlands since I have all 3. However, I should not have the option to make a platnum guide for Deadrising 2 because I don't have the platnum. However, I feel like we should still have a place for trophy tips too for those who've earned those individual trophies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piggie_Pie Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 I like the idea really... if there was a "guide" section for every game it can just be populated by the tips... I like the community involvement with the tips because everyone can take ownership of it but there isn't really a "road map". so maybe there could be a "road map" section and a link to the tips... that way we don't impede on the community involvement with the tips and everyone can be a part of it... I did something like that for Sacred 2 https://psnprofiles.com/forums/topic/1533-sacred-2-trophy-guide/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beyondthegrave07 Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 We can also have an "edit" button (in which the creator can enable and disable) where those (who once again have the platnum) can edit someone else's guide in order to make it better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xuninos Posted May 24, 2013 Share Posted May 24, 2013 +1 for idea trophy guide, add tips in trophies is great but guide for earned platinum is better. Road map , road to platinum, tips, strategy, advice and help would be much better to get the platinum. Is mi opinion RegardS 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisjohnson93 Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 I'm a member of both this and ps3trophies.com sight and if a merger does happen which is unlikely. There are things that are better on each website and having all of it on the same website would be excellent in my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myers Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 People are complaining about not having a guide but the tips are very similar to a guide. And if you're so willing to write a guide for a game, why don't you add tips already? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrakenSilverwing Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 It would be nice, but all ya really need to do is put extensive tips in and it will pretty much turn into a very well setup guide in the end. it just needs to be promoted a bit more and more ppl to add to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post eburkulosis Posted May 27, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted May 27, 2013 I'm a member of both this and ps3trophies.com sight and if a merger does happen which is unlikely. There are things that are better on each website and having all of it on the same website would be excellent in my opinion LOL one thing I could predict with 100% certainty is that there will never be a merger between us and that site, and I would doubt any site in the near future. My personal opinion is that it's way too late in the game to be a force in the trophy guide arena. Like Eternal said, keep doing what we do best and be innovative. Sly is working on some great things that no other trophy site has yet. Maybe we can dig into guides once PS4 hits and capitalize on some new innovative features that Sony is going to implement with the trophy system (that's a guess on my part but I would have to think Sony is going to make some tweaks to the trophy system) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simula67 Posted May 27, 2013 Share Posted May 27, 2013 I don't think guides are a necessary function of this site. One reason I don't post on one of the other trophy sites anymore is because of the, for lack of a better term, trophy guide nepotism. Guides are given to the same group of people who may or may not have actually played the game. The trophy tips feature of this site is more than adequate, and you have to have earned the trophy to post a tip for it. Sly is working on some truly neat things and my personal opinion is that he continues on that, rather than waste time on trophy guide mechanics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curb Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 (edited) I don't think guides are a necessary function of this site. One reason I don't post on one of the other trophy sites anymore is because of the, for lack of a better term, trophy guide nepotism. Guides are given to the same group of people who may or may not have actually played the game. The trophy tips feature of this site is more than adequate, and you have to have earned the trophy to post a tip for it. Sly is working on some truly neat things and my personal opinion is that he continues on that, rather than waste time on trophy guide mechanics. I said I wouldn't really reveal any more, because to be honest until anything happens they're all just ideas, and it may come to pass that Sly doesn't implement them. But I will say that the system he wants to implement would completely do away with issues of favoritism and elitism that you find on other sites. Everyone would have the opportunity to do a guide, and each invidividual guide would have to stand on its own - not the name of the author attached to it, nor the guides that author may have written in the past. I realize a lot of people are hesistant about including fully-fledged guides since the tips we have already do function quite similarly, and because they don't want us to become like .com or .org. But I think a lot of you will be pleasantly surprised by what's in the pipeline, and a lot of those fears will be groundless. And let's be honest - tips aren't utilized all that much anyway. Many trophies are missing any sort of information/guide, and because of that there are a lot of members here who, despite loathing the other sites, go there for their info. At the very least, transitioning to a system that uses full guides won't hurt much, and at best, it could make us even more independent and kick-ass. Edited May 28, 2013 by Curb 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simula67 Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 I said I wouldn't really reveal any more, because to be honest until anything happens they're all just ideas, and it may come to pass that Sly doesn't implement them. But I will say that the system he wants to implement would completely do away with issues of favoritism and elitism that you find on other sites. Everyone would have the opportunity to do a guide, and each invidividual guide would have to stand on its own - not the name of the author attached to it, nor the guides that author may have written in the past. I realize a lot of people are hesistant about including fully-fledged guides since the tips we have already do function quite similarly, and because they don't want us to become like .com or .org. But I think a lot of you will be pleasantly surprised by what's in the pipeline, and a lot of those fears will be groundless. And let's be honest - tips aren't utilized all that much anyway. Many trophies are missing any sort of information/guide, and because of that there are a lot of members here who, despite loathing the other sites, go there for their info. At the very least, transitioning to a system that uses full guides won't hurt much, and at best, it could make us even more independent and kick-ass. I am skeptical, but I'll keep an open mind on this. If a guide system was introduced I would certainly participate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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