Download.com Ratings

[VernJensen]

Okay, so this *is* related to Midnight Mansion, I just didn't know where else to put it. I could use your help! It seems Download.com added a

ratings

feature at some point, and while Midnight Mansion has gotten great positive comments, no one has made use of the Ratings feature, which could help a bit more. So if you have a free minute, go here and give it 5 stars:

http://www.download.com/Midnight-Mansion/3000-2275_4-10624857.html?tag=lst-0-5

Look at the

Average user rating

just below the Download Now link. There is a blue

Rate it!

link there. You have to become a member to rate it (free), which is a nuisance, but I suppose that way each person can rate it only once.

I'm hoping to get into the

Highest Rated

category. I don't know if you need an editorial review to get there, or if user reviews can do it, but only 2 Mac games are in that category right now, so I figure why not try.

[Wingy]

Shouldn't it be 1.0.8? :o :-? I need an account. That means spam. Sorry, I couldn't rate.

[VernJensen]

Wingy wrote: Shouldn't it be 1.0.8?  :o :-? I need an account. That means spam. Sorry, I couldn't rate.

It will be 1.0.8 when they get around to updating their listing. That usually takes several weeks for Download.com, but works out well, because when they do finally get around to updating it, I get listed on their front page for several days.

[Semi-Native]

Vern, on Apple's web site, the Downloads section still has version 1.0.5 of Midnight Mansion. Can you send them an update, too?

[VernJensen]

Ahhh, thanks for mentioning that! I just

discovered

a whole area of Apple's web site I had never known about. You see, I had previously been using a completely different form to submit Midnight Mansion updates to the Apple Software Guide, and they removed the ability to list version numbers on that, so you can't even submit updates. But that's *completely* separate from this other page for Midnight Mansion that you saw, whicih I just discovered! And that has its own submission process. Wow.

Anyway, I've resubmitted for that, so they'll hopefully update that listing soon. Man, to think all this time, for versions 1.0.6 and 1.0.7, I missed all the traffic that being updated on Apple's site could have brought!

[VernJensen]

Here's what I *used* to be updating whenever I released a new version of Midnight Mansion, but then they even removed the ability to have version numbers listed.

http://guide.apple.com/action.lasso?-database=macosguide&-layout=cgi_detail&-response=/ussearch/detail.html&prodkey=68969&-search

I always thought the Macintosh Products Guide was rather bare-bones. So it's refreshing to see Apple has an entirely *different* area that's much nicer:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/games/

I will be keeping them up-to-date now.