UltimateGamer1982 said:
It’s been like that since Saturday night. I got in last night briefly and saw users posting whatever they wanted without mods.
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I can't say I feel sorry for them. Neogaf has great insiders, but the mods are strict to the point that it seems that all active users actually share the same opinion than them. Of course, a forum like VGC has more flaming and discussions, but that's simply a side-effect of having people speaking freely about a subject.
Also, I never agree with the vision that Gaf has about sales. VGS estimates are far from perfect, but they are usually within 10% of the real values for hardware, while software is a bit less precise. It's a somewhat big margin, but it gives a good insight about general numbers.
It is also too hard to follow sales of hardware or games that the company isn't reporting. Wikipedia numbers, for that reason, are always laughably outdated. It's better to know X1 sales with a 10% error margin than having correct numbers from 2014. VGC basically is like getting the last official numbers and adding the consecutive NPD and Meadi Create sales while estimating Europe and the rest of the world. It's convenient to have that.
Since Gaf won't use VGC numbers, most of their discussion is centered around NPD or Japan. Sales discussion on Gaf is basically useless.
Edit: before someone thinks I could be mad at Gaf because I got banned or something like that, I never did. I have a junior account there (at least if they don't disable them after some time without posts). At the time, I knew that normally after some time of posting I would get promoted to a full account, but I disliked the discussions on the site so much that I simply didn't feel like I wanted to post stuff or be part of the community.
VGC community is great and always make me want to return and keep posting.