Now I know this might not be breaking news for most people, but YoYoGames is suffering from noob-syndrome. This most commonly happens when a popular program becomes widely available and marketed for everyone. Then users create games which in every way is fine and then upload their poorly made game to a hosting site. In this case the hosting site is YoYoGames. In most cases this is not a problem, the poorly made games are down rated and never seen again.

But the massive numbers of poor games and poor users on YoYoGames brings the site to its knees. There are three reasons this site suffers significantly.

One) Because so many games are submitted at the same time, the excellent games are quickly covered and sent to the next page by poor games.

Two) Because YoYoGames puts any game rated 6/6 in their Most Popular section, often poorly made games are rated highly by multiple accounts are seen in the Most Popular section.

Three) If a poorly made game happens to be rated highly, the creator often downrates other peoples games in the hope that his game will maintain a higher rating in comparison with all the other games.

I recently released another version of Edelsteine on several sites, including YoYoGames. At first it was instantly smothered by poor games and was impossible to find. My brother then rated the game 6/6. I was then happy because other people would find it and rate it also. Unfortunately my game was a victim of noob-syndrome.

As you can see, my game has two votes, yet has been played only once. My brother rated my game a 6/6. Apparently, another user rated the game 0/6 and made the overall rating 3.5/6. This is sad because he rated my game 0/6 and did not even play it.