New Scaratings

So now every time we get 1k on a CD question we get to look down and discover we received a badge for some category. Now that doesn't really bother me, but at my site we never got to see our current local rank when that happened. So is that the same for all sites or is just simply a byproduct of our weak base station signal?

BO

Think its everybody.

We couldn't seen on the playmaker our current local rank, but at least occasionally we did see our ranking within the game on the main screen.

Brooke/AARDVK

Your current local rank doesn't matter! You got a badge!

And yes, we get the same thing and were moaning about it last night.

Lately on CD they don't tell us local rank on the playmaker til we go to break or at the end of the game. Its afortunate that they congrate you on receiving a badge but they need to tell us on your playmaker that you taken the lead so you know that you ARE the LEADER.

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

Co-Home Bar: Buffalo Wild Wings Edwardsville, IL and Time Out in St Louis, MO

And the next day Buzztime Marketing sends a nice e-mail as a reminder that you did indeed win a badge. I'd unsubscribe to their notifications, but then I'd miss any that are actually worth reading. I'm waiting for that e-mail, but it hasn't come yet.

I haven't got my congratulations mail yet. Maybe it's delayed since I'm on the West Coast.

Yes, that line is getting old

Well, at least they only listed 1 of 9:

Congrats, SCAR,

The Jive Talkin' Badge is now yours!

You earned Jive Talkin' playing Countdown at Bogeys! That's a total of 9 Badges to date. Keep up the good work!



See your recent Badges and all possible Badges to find out which ones you still need!

You know, I think that is the first Badge I've received since the Cub Scouts.

I noticed that on BO's Facebook page.

They post on badges on Facebook for the people who have the app to play Buzztime Trivia on Facebook. To play that, you first have to give Buzztime permission to "Publish games and app activity." If you don't have that app enabled, the badges don't post. I don't know of a way to play Buzztime Trivia on Facebook without first giving them that permission, or a way to turn the permission off - so I don't play Buzztime Trivia on Facebook.

BT is not relatively as bad about this as many of the games, or the Calendar app. Those also demand permission to post and send messages in your name. I don't play these games either, because I think it's rude to bombard friends with the Facebook equivalent of spam.

For the companies making these games, these games are excuses to generate two revenue streams: getting you to pay cash for virtual items, and mining your data to sell to other companies. It seems only a few games make significant bucks off the virtual items, and most make their revenue from the data mining - which is a stream NTN has stated they want to tap. In NTN's focus on creating platforms they hope will persuade the most people to give them personal data and lists of their friends, I wonder if they've at least partially lost sight of the reality that the quality and integrity of the game has to be foremost, or the players will eventually tire of it, and walk away.

TFM