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It would be interesting to see which games are owned the most and least. This could give an idea of how rare/common things are for collectors. I'd also like to see something that rates your collection as common/mainstream or rare/unique, based on this index.

We tried something like this a while ago, but it got put on the backburner because after discussion, the staff decided it would get confused as being a rarity guide.  We don't have nearly enough data to conisder our collection stats an accurate indicator of rarity.  If we can figure out a way to show percentage owned without it getting confused with rarity, I'd like to see that added as well.  We also have very large databases for collections so we'd have to make sure it's optimized in a way so that it won't cause a load on our server.

And without that percentage being confused with the percentage of people rating the game :)

Adding more and more information isn't always a good thing, because game pages could get overly complex with numbers and statistics.

Just like the Black Perl said, we "only" have about 1000 collectors on RFG, that might not be enough for some games to give an accurate representation of rarity.

KLOV seems to track this for arcade stuff : http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8308 (scroll down to scarcity in collection). It only seems to really clutter up the interface, and doesn't actually provide a lot of useful information.

Especially because the people most likely to be tracking a collection in a database are going to have a lot more uncommon games, so you'll get skewed rarity results, as well.

You're right.

Just checked it and that "scarcity" doesn't look great. Aparently that cab is "very common"...I can't think of any cab to be considered very common. How many gamers even own just one?

Now that I look at it more...that whole page looks messy, seemingly without much thought put in layout. There's even different fonts used on the same page! RF Gen's database looks much better to be honest.