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MaxwellGT2000 Really wasn't going to log in ever again but I want anyone that was friends with me (like you pbroy

A 24 year old male gamer
United States
Joined on December 5th 2007, last online 1 day ago.
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Forum posts: 7,856 times which averages 5 posts per day

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spurgeonryan posted something on MaxwellGT2000's wall:

While I have you here for a second, did you get Kid Icarus?

on 22 April 2012 | 14 comments

What do you think of the changes?

on 22 April 2012

Yes I have Kid Icarus, and by changes I'm guessing making it an on rails game? Cause in all honesty it's a Nintendo made Sin and Punishment... and well I love Sin and Punishment... only KI is less punishing (unless you want it to be and I totally dig that)

on 22 April 2012

Lol, no I mean site changes. Going back to basics.

There is a kid icarus league on here if you have time or care to post in it, or just check it out. Thanks for stopping by!

on 22 April 2012

Splitting up a base that is small(er than it has been) and on a decline is never a good idea, to be fair the forums had always been very broad so a return to basics would mean keeping mostly the same stuff on the site now, minus a few sections that were added, like online.

A better return to basics would mean a clean simple common sense ruled forum, mods take care of the community, not the rules, moderators are never meant to hold those rules to such a strict standard, since a moderator of a forum is kinda like a moderator of a debate, you make sure the discussion is quality, make sure the people involved stay on topic, and when people start spewing nonsense you cut the BS. Online that basically means you gotta see some people are here to uplift the community and discussion, while those only here to spew negative opinions, force them on others, and overall debby downers... well they should hit the road, problem being when you make a system so set to the rules, those people who cause the issues learn to skirt the rules, they know the bounds they can push while still achieving their goal, and obviously it has worked in their favor since even with the small amount of people active here discussion should be going on for pages like in the old days (50 posts per page) instead most threads die in less than one and take days for replies (while still being on the front page of the forum index)

on 23 April 2012

I would like to point out that some are missing. Even ioi has mention ed it. The forums are busier. Since around December of last year they have picked up. Each month has been busier and busier. E3? Maybe. But I am here all day and I notice trends here and there. The forums are picking up, even if Carl does not see it. Which is amazing seeing that once a week this site seems to be down and it is changing all the time.

on 24 April 2012

Fair enough, the gaming and Nintendo sections have picked up, I noticed that while periodically lurking, but Carl won't believe it's picking up because the Sony forums are slowing down (happens when a company has nothing but negative news posted about it, see Nintendo and all the anti casual news)

Carl came in with the true boom to the site popularity, the Sony crowd that moved in after 2008, the site went from about 70 Nintendo 15 Sony and 15 Microsoft to 40 Nintendo 40 Sony and 20 Microsoft for the "camps" while all the sides increased in raw numbers and activity, but while member numbers boomed civil discussion declined, a growing pain of a growing site or what have you, being proactive about that growing pain would have kept discussion standards a bit more consistent.

That's what a lot of old members miss and want back, talking to them on various IM clients they all say similar things, and they realized one of the things I did. We can have our old high quality discussions in chats on instant messenger. The only downfall to this is the lack of new ideas introduced from new blood and the site used to be a great source of information, facts, and data, mainly... the charts, you could make various comparison charts, people used to compare games and consoles... but that's gone and one more reason factual discussions left. Oh well, it can be fixed, like anything, but it'll take a lot of work at this point, me and MM suggested a number of things even going as far as strict common sense rulings and filters for incoming members to cut out spambots and give people a reason not to make an alt, I feel those sorts of standards really need to be implemented to bring up quality.

on 24 April 2012

Maxwell hit the nail on the head there. Im not saying the forums are dying in popularity, Im saying theyre dying in quality discussion.

My main gripe is with Sales related stuff. The content that originally brought the majority of members here is now gone, with that went the vast majority of quality sales related topics.

Spurge, you talk about post/thread count rising - Check the "WW Up!" numbers with previous Years' numbers. "Others up", "Americas Up" and "JP Up" threads all used to do more than the current WW up threads [i]alone[i]... There was general excitement, Weekly, for VGC numbers.

on 24 April 2012

And to add. Another gripe I have about the forums is the upcoming split.

on 24 April 2012

Sales wise our main posters are Seece, Kowenicki, D-joe, I love giggs, Acevil, Noctis, and Shwinn.

Seece has taken a back seat, which is why the general discussions are flourishing, The next two never really gave us much over 200-300 posts worth of discussion. Then we come to The Media create guys. Media create has not been too exciting since early this year. There is the occasional member who posts an interesting sales thread, but usually boils down to Ethomaz doing a GT sales thread that gets 20 people interested, and the same can go for whoever else.

The problem is, sales are not exciting right now. Vita did not turn the handheld battle into a war, Wii is obviously dead so nothing to talk about there.

It is strange that so many people came to this site looking for sales and sales discussion, yet no one makes threads about sales. Shit! I came here for sales, but cannot think of anything to say for the life of me. All of this fresh blood, noobs, new users to the site need to start making interesting threads instead of just posting in them. For a while I thought that maybe me posting so many threads was hurting the site, so I stopped. But it just give us less to talk about.

It is different from before. That is for sure. Also well, actually got to go. The site is not as bad as it was a year ago, but work needs to be done. Splitting the site makes me nervous, but ioi seems to think it will save it so we will see.

Thanks for the chat!

on 24 April 2012

For reference, not saying there isn't things you can discuss in a civil manner, me, MakingMusic, Zarx, and Gnizmo discuss sales all the time in instant messenger, and we get the same quality discussion older threads here had... just no chart tools anymore :\

Then... hate to say it, but I find similar to older VGC quality discussion about sales and consoles when I go visit NeoGAF's Media Create and NPD threads, they never ever turned into the brawls that happened here, and if a staff member ever dared be as biased and shut down threads like that to further his own agenda, then they would have been quickly removed from the team there.

Like I have something against NeoGAF in the sense of lots of members think it's a better place simply because it's private and has game developers posting on it, thing is so did VGC and heck one is still around and a mod, but their quick action to take care of the community makes a world of difference, and me, MakingMusic, and Montana basically lobbied for that sort of change to help prevent more older members from leaving... and well... it never happened...

on 24 April 2012

Also not to sound ZOMG BIASED AGAINST THE SONY MEMBERS, but when 3.0 hit it actually wiped a lot of those members out, which actually unintentionally helped the community out a lot, forums became less active but the people still around were the dedicated guys, not the ones wanting to troll people up from their PS3 browser about how PS3 was the best no argument and you can't touch me cause it's an opinion...

There have been Microsoft and Nintendo fans like that but never to that extent in numbers, and 3.0 unintentionally balanced it back out. I think that's the main reason people saw me as some anti Sony guy, I was banning Microsoft and Nintendo biased guys like that but the Sony ones were greater in number and easier to notice :S but that just happens when demographics of a site changes, funny thing is whenever I had to get rid of Nintendo or Microsoft fans like that they always PMed me with messages about being Sony or Microsoft biased... and when I did it to Sony fans they messaged me with how I was Nintendo biased... funny how that works out, eh?

I know my opinions of Sony and their soon to be downfall because they weren't keeping the consumer in mind wasn't popular in the 2009-2010 highs, but I was never and have never been against Sony, only being a long time fan wanting them to be more like their old selves. Oh well I guess haha most of my claims actually have come to pass, fans fighting back, their overall plan lacking focus and innovation putting them in a corner, and people never appreciate the bad PR. Billions of dollars down, Vita sales numbers not totaling up to their initial shipment numbers, and TVs not selling worth a damn and I guess I was right all along :-D

tl;dr version: I got side tracked and devolved into "I told you so"

on 24 April 2012

Lol! Wasn't this wall post about Kid Icarus? I am just joking, I understand what you are saying.

on 24 April 2012

LOL I know right? Though you asked me my thoughts on the split, and well I don't think that's the same as going back to the basics, which is what this all boils down to.

on 24 April 2012

flash mob on axumeblads wall in one minute.

on 03 May 2012

Paul posted something on MaxwellGT2000's wall:

hi, I added you on my 3DS, add me back if you would like

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on 19 March 2012 | 0 comments

ClaudeLv250 posted something on MaxwellGT2000's wall:

What the hell happened to make you leave?

on 13 February 2012 | 2 comments

A number of things, from the community going downhill, to the forums being painfully slow, to discussion being nearly non existent, and most of my friends moved on anyway. There are a number of other things too but the bottom line was not really having a reason to come back, the reason I logged in tonight was the MK7 PMs spammed up my email.

on 06 March 2012

I think Rol put a stop to those PMs. lol

on 06 March 2012

leatherhat posted something on MaxwellGT2000's wall:

Come on back- I know things are shitty but people running away isn't going to fix anything.

on 18 January 2012 | 2 comments

it's not that easy sometimes hat. i'll be here but it will never be the same, and i'm sure max fills the same way.

on 19 January 2012

No trying to do something about it and pretty much getting spit in my eye for it isn't alright. People lack respect for one another and others don't want to help fix the problems... so if you're someone trying to get things put into motion and aren't getting anywhere in two years then why continue :P

on 06 March 2012

MontanaHatchet posted something on MaxwellGT2000's wall:

You know you want to keep posting Maxwell. You can't run from the chartz!!!

on 13 January 2012 | 4 comments

I've already moved on heh, work has me occupied a lot of the time, while they're moving me up the corporate ladder, then the community no longer discusses things, it's all fighting, got an old VGC friend Bodhevesta to get my account approved over at NeoGAF and have had a fun time with that community like I used to here.

on 06 March 2012

I have an account on GAF but rarely use it. How is it over there?

on 26 March 2012

GAF is pretty amazing, like the 2007-2009 days on the Chartz community wise, but it's like the quality discussions of the 07-08 period, with the activity levels of 08-09, so I'd say you should use that account :P

on 22 April 2012

Meh. They are the myspace an Aol of forum sites.

on 25 April 2012

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Occupation: college student

Education: When asked if I wanted knowledge or Wisdom I chose both

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Height: 5'8

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Eye colour: Hazel

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