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kirby007 on 29 July 2019
CGI-Quality said:
kirby007 said:
Oh well atleast the last 100 of us get stricktly moderated

Well, in your case Kirby, it's understandable


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Baddman on 29 July 2019
RolStoppable said:
Baddman said:

agreed I have migrated to other forums after over 10 yrs on VGC a lot has to do with the Moderations and rules

It would help if you specified what the issues are.

It was said before I edited it but I am basically in agreement with the issues you stated regarding moderations



curl-6 on 29 July 2019

Same pattern today. :(

Get up, a few new posts to read, post replies where appropriate, even start a new thread and... silence. Probably gonna have to wait til tomorrow morning just to repeat the same process again.

I strongly disagree with the assessment that the banning of trolls is responsible; I'm not sure the place would be any better if activity was boosted by an increase is toxic behaviour. That's like saying "hey, we're running low on water, maybe we should drink petrol instead".

Besides which, I can think of a gaming forum off the top of my head with far stricter moderation than VGC which is thriving.

Buggered if I know what the solution is though, all I can think to do is keep trying to stimulate discussion. 

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gergroy on 29 July 2019
curl-6 said:

Same pattern today. :(

Get up, a few new posts to read, post replies where appropriate, even start a new thread and... silence. Probably gonna have to wait til tomorrow morning just to repeat the same process again.

I strongly disagree with the assessment that the banning of trolls is responsible; I'm not sure the place would be any better if activity was boosted by an increase is toxic behaviour. That's like saying "hey, we're running low on water, maybe we should drink petrol instead".

Besides which, I can think of a gaming forum off the top of my head with far stricter moderation than VGC which is thriving.

Buggered if I know what the solution is though, all I can think to do is keep trying to stimulate discussion. 

The site lost a lot of traffic when this gen wasn’t very competitive.  It took another hit when the numbers went to crap.  It’s also filled to the brim with aggressive ads and isn’t super up to date with compatibility.  Talon has made a lot of improvements on that end, but scrolling is still a pain on mobile devices.  Basically... there isn’t anything driving traffic to this site anymore and there isn’t much to inspire long visits to those that do visit.  There really isn’t anything that can be done here... it isn’t moderation or quality of the threads... it is the site itself.  It would need a serious revamp and possibly a new niche if it wants to grow.  We all know that Brett doesn’t seem to care anymore so that ain’t gonna happen.  Basically, I see the site slowly dying and as soon as it starts costing Brett money, it is gonna get shut down... and I don’t think that is too far off...



super_etecoon on 30 July 2019
gergroy said:
curl-6 said:

Same pattern today. :(

Get up, a few new posts to read, post replies where appropriate, even start a new thread and... silence. Probably gonna have to wait til tomorrow morning just to repeat the same process again.

I strongly disagree with the assessment that the banning of trolls is responsible; I'm not sure the place would be any better if activity was boosted by an increase is toxic behaviour. That's like saying "hey, we're running low on water, maybe we should drink petrol instead".

Besides which, I can think of a gaming forum off the top of my head with far stricter moderation than VGC which is thriving.

Buggered if I know what the solution is though, all I can think to do is keep trying to stimulate discussion. 

The site lost a lot of traffic when this gen wasn’t very competitive.  It took another hit when the numbers went to crap.  It’s also filled to the brim with aggressive ads and isn’t super up to date with compatibility.  Talon has made a lot of improvements on that end, but scrolling is still a pain on mobile devices.  Basically... there isn’t anything driving traffic to this site anymore and there isn’t much to inspire long visits to those that do visit.  There really isn’t anything that can be done here... it isn’t moderation or quality of the threads... it is the site itself.  It would need a serious revamp and possibly a new niche if it wants to grow.  We all know that Brett doesn’t seem to care anymore so that ain’t gonna happen.  Basically, I see the site slowly dying and as soon as it starts costing Brett money, it is gonna get shut down... and I don’t think that is too far off...

I wouldn't be surprised if whether it holds on or not, they'll at least give it one more console launch cycle to see how the numbers affect momentum.  Next gen should be very interesting any way you look at it and there's no way we don't have an increase in discussion regarding who to crown the winner of the next gen.  It just makes sense to let it run its course for at least the first year of that cycle to see what happens.



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Mnementh on 30 July 2019

We need to make the Xbox camp on VGC great again!

Well, maybe in the future we'll have a Stadia camp instead.



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Replicant on 30 July 2019
RolStoppable said:
super_etecoon said:

I wouldn't be surprised if whether it holds on or not, they'll at least give it one more console launch cycle to see how the numbers affect momentum.  Next gen should be very interesting any way you look at it and there's no way we don't have an increase in discussion regarding who to crown the winner of the next gen.  It just makes sense to let it run its course for at least the first year of that cycle to see what happens.

We'll have discussion about the winner, but eventually people will come to realize that the winner was already known long before the PS5 and Scarlett launched. Switch has the gen in the bag, the PS5 will take second place because Microsoft is shifting to streaming and doesn't put much thought into selling as many Xbox consoles as possible anymore. The state of the console market is already clear now, but it usually takes people a while before they can let go their current perception of it; right now there are still lots of people among all fanbases that believe that Sony is the uncontested leader in the console market and that it is a given that the PS5 will sell even better than the PS4.

So you predict that Switch will sell more than PS5 lifetime? Could very well happen.

How much do you think they'll sell? Personally, I predicted (in 2017) 90 million for Switch but I haven't got a clue yet as to where PS5 will end.



Barkley on 30 July 2019
RolStoppable said:

We'll have discussion about the winner, but eventually people will come to realize that the winner was already known long before the PS5 and Scarlett launched. Switch has the gen in the bag...

right now there are still lots of people among all fanbases that believe that Sony is the uncontested leader in the console market and that it is a given that the PS5 will sell even better than the PS4.

Lol, the example of the PS2/PS3 and Wii/WiiU should be enough for anyone to discount that success always follows success.

Though your "Switch has the gen in the bag" is misguided, you obviously don't have the information to say that. You just really want it to happen.

It's not impossible that the PS5 could be the best selling console of all time, especially if it's main direct competitor Xbox takes less of a focus on consoles and some of that CoD, Fifa, Madden market comes over to PlayStation. Equally it's not impossible that the PS5 is a failure and only sells 50m or less.



kirby007 on 30 July 2019

Did i say that in the past joke threads were less of an hassle because people got less offended?



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Ganoncrotch on 13 August 2019

any news on where VGchartz went for the last 24 hours? Kinda strange for a site to just go offline for a while like that isn't it?



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