In short
GameCrew orders products and prices by fixed rules that apply to everyone. Nobody can buy a higher place: publishers and shops do not pay for their position in a list.
Every visitor sees the same order. We do not use personal data or pages you visited before to change it.
Categories, brands and studios: ‘Popular’
This is the default order. There are five rules, in order of weight. A later rule only counts when the earlier ones make no difference:
- Products with a price come first: a current shop price or a price the manufacturer publishes. Products without a price come last.
- Among those, the most popular products come first: what the most different visitors viewed over the past weeks. A click through to a shop counts twice as much as a visit, and recent days weigh more: each week counts half as much as the week after it. We count anonymously and without cookies (see the privacy statement), and visits by bots do not count.
- Among those, products with a current shop offer come first: an offer from a shop that GameCrew shows.
- Among those, products with a known studio come first.
- Among those, products are listed alphabetically (A–Z).
Products we know nothing about yet, such as new ones, therefore skip rule 2. Sales, payments and commission play no part in this order. Filtering by brand or studio only changes which products you see, not their order.
Choosing another order
With ‘Sort’ you can choose a different order:
- ‘Price: low to high’ and ‘Price: high to low’: by the lowest current shop price of any of its versions (per version the top offer of its shop list that is not sold out); this is the price shown with the product in the list. Without a current shop offer, the lowest recommended price of any of its versions counts instead, and the list then says so. Products without a price come last; equal prices are listed A–Z.
- ‘New on GameCrew’: what was added to GameCrew most recently comes first. This says nothing about when a game came out.
- ‘Name (A–Z)’: alphabetically.
Search
Your words are searched in the name, brand, studio, category, platform and edition. A product must match all your words. In the default order (‘Relevance’), products whose name, brand or studio is exactly your search come first; then products in the category your word names (for ‘ps5’: PS5 games), then other products with all your words. When your word finds nothing, we show the results for the closest word and say so.
Shop prices on a product page
For each version we only show shops that sell exactly that version: the same platform and the same edition, recognised by the EAN code. The order, again in order of weight:
- Shops that do not have the product in stock come last. A pre-order counts as available.
- Shops that do not state their shipping costs come after shops whose total price we know.
- Among those, the lowest total price comes first: the price including VAT plus shipping.
- On an equal total price, the price we checked most recently comes first.
A price we have not been able to check for more than 48 hours is not shown. Every price says when we last checked it. The ‘Crew tip’ always points at the first shop in this order. The publisher’s recommended price is shown separately, as ‘Recommended price’, and is never a shop offer.
Advertising and commission
There are no paid placements on GameCrew at the moment. If there are in future, every paid placement will be clearly marked ‘Advertisement’, with who paid for it when we know. An advertisement is kept apart from the normal order and never changes it.
GameCrew may receive a commission through links to shops when you buy something. That commission plays no part in the order: a shop that pays more is not listed higher.
Price drops
When we say a price has dropped, we always compare it with the lowest price of the same shop in the 30 days before the new price began. If we do not know all of those 30 days, we do not report a price drop. A ‘was’ price stated by the shop itself, or the recommended price, is never used for this. So the difference with the recommended price is never called a price drop; it is shown as ‘below the recommended price’.
Popular now
The ‘Popular now’ row on the home page and in categories shows products that clearly more different visitors viewed in the last 7 days than the 4 weeks before would lead us to expect. A product needs at least 5 visitors a week to qualify, and the row only appears when at least 4 products do. Payments and commission play no part here either.
Questions
Think something about the order is not right? Email info@gamecrew.nl.