What about games that aren't accepted into a guild for whatever reason? You CANT find those games now, and that's annoying. I submitted Megaman Wars to BYOND Action but I haven't heard a word back from them yet and now players are having trouble finding the game. It's a bit unsettling.

Live games that aren't in a guild are invisible now.

Tiberath wrote:

I don't know much about Megaman, but I know it is an anime, is it not?

No. Some of the art is anime-styled, but it's not an anime.

And anime games should be placed into fangames, because regardless of what subgenre they are, they are mainly fangames.

There is no fan games section any more. =) The idea is that nobody specifically says "I want to play a fan game"; they might say "I want to play a game based on my favourite anime", but those people don't necessarily have much in common with Megaman fans, I'm guessing. Or FF fans or DW fans.

So fan games should go into the next-most-appropriate guild. In this case, Action. Though of course the no-charging-for-fangames rule applies regardless.

Crispy wrote:

Tiberath wrote:

I don't know much about Megaman, but I know it is an anime, is it not?

No. Some of the art is anime-styled, but it's not an anime.

And anime games should be placed into fangames, because regardless of what subgenre they are, they are mainly fangames.

There is no fan games section any more. =) The idea is that nobody specifically says "I want to play a fan game"; they might say "I want to play a game based on my favourite anime", but those people don't necessarily have much in common with Megaman fans, I'm guessing. Or FF fans or DW fans.

So fan games should go into the next-most-appropriate guild. In this case, Action. Though of course the no-charging-for-fangames rule applies regardless.

Well considered the fact that it's not anime I agree with out.

However, on the other comments. A DBZ game should go straight to BYOND Anime, regardless of how RPG or Action orientated it is. That's what I meant with my comment.

This is just getting annoying. Seriously, where do all the games that are NOT in guilds go?

I mean, they accepted into a category, or they don't. What about the games of which are new, or have no connection WHATSOEVER to any form of category. Where do they go?

I guess we create a void for that or something. Sure, we don't like rips. But...we like games that are not rips right? So then do we have to...already know exactly what we are searching for in order to begin to look for something?

What happens if you just want to browsing for a fun game, or a new game that was recently created but you don't know of it because you don't know the name? What happens to them? Do ALL new games that are not instantaneously thrown into a category just die because THEY CAN'T GET ACCEPTED?

This is just getting annoying. Seriously, where do all the games that are NOT in guilds go?

In guilds! Every game will be in a guild. Think of it as a (finally!) sorted unpublished section. Guild staff may choose to only feature certain games, but all of the guild's games will be listed.

Actually, Megaman was an american cartoon (made long after the game's creation).
The cartoon was made some time after the game's creation.
Megaman's first game was released in 1987, and the original cartoon started in 1994.
Alot of today's generation probably don't even know of it.

Fangames are games made by fans featuring popular characters based on one or more established video games or the like, and in that sense, it would have still belonged in the fangame section.

('still belongs' changed to 'still belonged' after reading Crispy's post)

When attempting to find products, there are people who actively search for something and those who like to sift through random material until they find something that strikes them as nice.

With the coming of guilds, perhaps a very simple 'Random Choices' search option could be provided - You could select X amount of guilds, and it'd give you Y amount of random games from those guilds. This would satisfy the need for those people who do like to browse randomly. You could add a 'Take rank into consideration' checkbox thats on by default, which makes sure that the random games returned are at least relatively highly placed within the guilds.

Dixon wrote:

last time I checked, "Anime" wasn't a gameplay genre.

No, it isn't. But there is a large community of anime fans on BYOND. The Anime guild serves to give them their own place to hang out and find other games that they might like. Sorting the games by genre isn't really the point... the idea is that it's more useful to have them sorted by interest group. So Casual is supposed to appeal to players who just want to pick-up-and-play a quick game every now and then. Strategy is for the more hardcore people who like more complex games and don't mind sitting around waiting a bit more. Anime is for people who are into anime. And so on.

This should also satisfy the crowd that gets really annoyed at the anime crowd, since the latter is nicely sectioned off. =) Everyone wins!

i personally loved the old way things were set up maybe if you can set games i ncatigorys but with the old layout o.o

I hate the new byond layout. I can never find the game I want when I dont know the name of it. if you agree totally post!