Can't argue with that at all. I totally support your view of what you want the site to represent. It's definitely looking a whole lot better now compared to when it was launched. Kudos to you on that.

What if you added a link to a different page for comments under the weekly charts? Like this site does here-> http://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1275386942

That way, the chart page can look clean and professional, yet still give members a chance to comment on the week's sales. Many times the weekly chart comments section would have more than 100 comments week after week in VGC 2.0. It would become a really missed feature if it were to completely disappear all together. True, there were a lot of attacks going on (we're only human after all), but also a lot of really good discussions as well.

Having to create new a thread in the forum each week to talk about the sales would be less ideal. So what do you say?

I'm trying not to be negative, but I really don't like the new design.  Everything is so scattered, and the way I used to use this site is broken....in a really bad way.  Where the hell is the discussion when you click on game in the sales section?  That's where I spent 99% of my time.  Not only is there no discussion on the sales now, but there's no way to get to it.  Further, I want to add a game to my collection, I did a search, and the game no longer pops up.  WTF?!  Apparently the search only works for articles. 

Why change the core functionality of the site.  VGChartz is what it is, because of what it was.  This idea of breaking it up into 4 separate sites is a terrible idea.  Terrible.  It would have been fine to enhnace VGChartz and improve things to add functionality, but you really should have done it slowly, and in a way that doesn't fundamentally break how people used the site.

I'm not sure if I'm sticking around now.  I may come here for sales data, but that's it now.  I used to do a lot more here, but I think I'm going to do all that stuff on GiantBomb.com now.

Bring back the discussion when you click on a game so we can discuss the sales.  Also, allow me to add games to my collection from there.  Why take that away?  I can't even figure out how to add a game to my collection now.  Seriously, why take functionality away?!  That's the surest way to lose users.

Another site I frequent (Harmony Central) just did a huge upgrade too.  It royally pissed the userbase off because it changed everything, made everything difficult to use, and was a giant turd.  This upgrade reminds me of that one...mightily.  I really wish it would just go back to the way it was.  Upgrades need to be done with more thought, more incremental change, and less crazy segmenting, and radical change.  Leave that shit to Obama.

As to removing the comments section in the games drill down to make the site more professional...good lord, how does a site like this so fundmentally misunderstand what people enjoy about the internet.  Those of us that frequented that section ENJOYED the debate, argument, whatever.  We liked it.  Now, no discussion, no info, no way to discuss things.  For instance, it seems like game X had a massive adjustment upward, now I can't know if that's my bad memory, or if it's just the way it is.  Seems to me you're just covering your asses so people can't discuss the adjustments.  Again, those discussions were FUN.  It IS how many of us enjoyed the site. 

Just because YOU didn't like those discussions, doesn't mean MOST of us didn't.  MOST of us liked those discussions.  They were informative, and they were enlightening, and they kept the light on your numbers.  That's a GOOD thing for your site.  If you think that hiding adjustments will make people have more faith in your site, you are very sadly mistaken.  If I cant' take those things into account, and have a disucussion with people about those things, then this site has little value.

One last thing, for the love of all that is good, let me bookemark, "VGChartz.com".  Don't force me to the f'n hub.  That sucks.

I have to agree.  We should be able to type in a URL and go to the VGChartz page directly. 

Aesthetically I think the new design looks very slick, but I'm not keen on the new homepage hub. It's fine to have news, reviews, etc. but the charts aspect should surely take centre stage and by a large margin. With each re-design it seems that the charts aspect gets slightly marginalized. Yet this is VGChartz. It's what the site is all about. It's what makes the site unique and special. It's very reason for being.

Surely the VGChartz page should be the homepage with gamrFeed, gamrReview and gamrConnect all secondary. When you type vgchartz.com and the site loads up, the first thing you see should be that console sales bar chart and you will say "Ah yes, this is what I came here for". Now the first thing you see is blog posts and reviews and barely a chart in sight and you will say "Oh, this isn't what I came here for. This is what I can get anywhere and everywhere else."

I completely agree with this.

Trying to make the site more "professional" is fine and dandy, but remember that almost all the traffic you get is regular people, gamers, people who read the site for fun. Now the site is becoming less fun.

my thoughts exactly

Is there a way to search the forums (without going to google). Right now the search on gamrConnect only searches users.

from the first few pages of this thread people seem to really like the new site (have not read it all), it seems I am going to be in the minority, I absolutely detest the new design, the old site was nasty and the flash regularly broke in my browser but at least everything was easy to get at and right there on the page I first open. With the new design I am finding myself not even wanting to come to the site, everything is all over the place and I really dislike the hub that you are forced to go through, as another poster said please let us at least bookmark the vgchartz.com without going through the hub.