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Flilix on 22 February 2019

 

Simple question. How did you get here? What made you visit this site for the fist time and what made you come back?

 

 

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I first got here around 2013. I was wondering what the best selling videogames were, and Wikipedia used the GameDB as its main source. I started visiting the site occassionally to check out the newest weekly charts and the articles (and the Zergnet ads too ). I only started paying attention to the forums years later.



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Ultrashroomz on 22 February 2019

A friend introduced me to this site.

...we're not friends anymore and he doesn't use this site anymore.



"Just for comparison Uncharted 4 was 20x bigger than Splatoon 2. This shows the huge difference between Sony's first-party games and Nintendo's first-party games."

Sixteenvolt420 on 22 February 2019

I discovered it because of one of the other game traders on GameTZ, talking about this site.



Cobretti2 on 22 February 2019

When it launched I searched wii sales and there it was lol. Sadly my old account i couldn't recover after a site upgrade so created Cobretti2 lol.



 

 

FloatingWaffles on 22 February 2019

I think I found it after searching up video game sales randomly on google, either that or for a game in specific idk

I originally made an account on here in 2013 and went through the whole sign up process but when I finished it my account was never created for some reason, and I was too lazy to repeat it at the time so I just lurked again until 2015 and gave it another try



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melbye on 22 February 2019

Gamefaqs forums actually

edit: I was looking for Wii-sales. This was in December 2006

Last edited by melbye - on 22 February 2019

AJNShelton on 22 February 2019

Wikipedia too.



S.Peelman on 22 February 2019

I think I was curious about Wii sales, and if it was beating PS3, so I googled it and ended up here.



Bofferbrauer2 on 22 February 2019
FloatingWaffles said:
I think I found it after searching up video game sales randomly on google, either that or for a game in specific idk

I originally made an account on here in 2013 and went through the whole sign up process but when I finished it my account was never created for some reason, and I was too lazy to repeat it at the time so I just lurked again until 2015 and gave it another try

I think the same happened to me, but I'm not sure anymore. I was lurking on the site for years before making my account (the first one, mind you. But that one got lost when there were problems logging in with some accounts, including my first one, hence why I made a new one with a 2 at the end of the name to highlight this)



The Nintendo eShop rating Thread: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=237454 List as Google Doc:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aW2hXQT1TheElVS7z-F3pP-7nbqdrDqWNTxl6JoJWBY/edit?usp=sharing

The Steam/GOG key gifting thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/242024/the-steamgog-key-gifting-thread/1/ 

Free Pc Games thread: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread/248138/free-pc-games/1/

Edellus on 22 February 2019

Basically, I was a Sony fanboy trying to fight the best I could in the console war of PS3 vs Xbox 360, so I was looking for any info and reference about stuff like sales, exclusive games receptions, etc, to throw them to Xbots right in the face. That's how I found this site on Google. Fortunately I got bored and grew out of the console war (in that order). I'm no longer a Sony fanboy, I'm just a Playstation fan now (I like to make the distinction between "fan" and "fanboy"). I don't care much how other console manufacturers are doing, other that, hopefully, they do well enough as to wake up Sony once in a while so they don't get too cocky and start slacking.

TL;DR: I was a silly console fanboy and found this site via Google to fight other silly console fanboys.