primal_r
Score: 6866158Posts: 1499 Reputation: +260 Joined: 2011-09-09 |
Posted 2025-05-17 08:49
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Dear MetaGamerScore Member! Another year (and then some) has passed, and I thought it was a good time to share an update on all the improvements and changes happening over at MetaGamerScore. A big part of this year's development time went into battling runaway server costs caused by sophisticated LLM-training bots hitting the site aggressively—ignoring both throttling rules and robots.txt. That said, we still managed to deliver plenty of upgrades, including two new platforms and a major server overhaul. Platforms --- New platform: Wow Classic --- New platform: Hypixel --- Made EverQuestII scanning more robust --- Updated Guild Wars 2 to use new endpoints --- Fixed Xbox profile picture display issues --- Resolved name handling issues for special FFXIV character names --- Improved Kongregate scanner to better capture edge-case achievements --- PSN games now default to English localization (instead of sometimes random) --- Fixed some Xbox achievement icon issues --- Bugfixes for certain Battle.net wow realms --- Wargaming titles now refresh automatically like other platforms --- Roblox achievements now scan backward after the initial pass = less waste --- Deprecated: Dragon Age: Origins scanner (data provider shut down) Crews --- Certain Patreon tiers can now create multiple Crews --- Crew owners can now set users as Admins to help out with management --- More Crew management features are in the pipeline The best Achievement games of 2024 was: --- 1st Place: Balatro --- 2nd Place: Astro Bot --- 3rd Place: Final Fantasy XVI MetaScore --- Fixed a database bug that was assigning incorrect scores to some games Privacy & Social --- Removed google ad personalization --- Removed facebook and twitter social links Stability & Bugfixes --- Permanently fixed (Yearly) New Year crash caused by missing Top Lists for the new year. --- Prevented double-voting exploits through multitasking or fast actions Frontend --- Thumbnail mode for Achievements now displays more entries --- Improved pagination layout --- Refresh confirmation popups now show the game name for clarity --- The “All Games” list is now filterable --- Games and Achievements can now be sorted by MGS ID --- Yearly Calendar views now shows the current year first. Performance --- New, faster database node --- Migrated to a more powerful server --- Upgraded core middleware --- Optimized HEAD requests --- Introduced JavaScript fingerprinting to deter distributed bot-net attacks Thanks for sticking with us and being part of the MetaGamerScore community! Happy hunting, – The MetaGamerScore Dev |