It's just too busy. Not for me per sé, I know my way around here. But I can imagine newcomers getting a headache and be totally confused by the extremely complex design. There's just too much information on the mainpage.

I don't mean this in a mean way, but take a look at professional sites. You'll notice they have very simplistic designs, so everyone can use them immediately. I know this site offers a lot of information, and that's what makes the site so appealing. But the design is just too cluttered to attract any new people.

The new site enjoys making my processor work quite hard for its money.

Front page averages 38% of my dell's dual core. Using Ubuntu & firefox. Flash on Linux can be a bit of pain in that respect.....or so I understand.

I think it's just the layout. We used to have one big centre column and a bar on each side.
Now we've got three, equal sized columns packed with information. There's no single section that draws your eye. You don't know where to look.

I think this could be fixed if each section stood out. Like if the charts boxes were presented in a different table than the recent headlines for example.

I don't know if I'm making sense here :P

Overall is good. But the headlines font colors (Blue, Orange, Red) is confusing. Hopefully there is only one font color.

Oh, and lol @ ioi's control panel.

@ioi

you should make an ARTICLE proclaiming the coming of Vg Chartz 2.0 & spread it to different gamign communities so traffic increases

Just my opinion, using IGN as an example i think it breaks up each section better. Most sections are on a white background which contrasts well with the blue background image. Here there are just thin grey lines separating one grey section from another grey section.

This is something that i imagine could be changed fairly easily (?)

Well, if you look at it, both IGN and GameSpot are relatively narrow, but are pretty long if you scroll down. VGC 2.0 has a lot of stuff side by side, while VGC 1.0, like IGN and GameSpot, was relatively narrow and scrolled down a lot.

I do like the new design, and VGC 2.0 in general (ignoring the bugs, which will hopefully be fixed soon), but I do think the front page is just a little cluttered-looking.

Man, you've aleady made a few threads about this.  If you don't like it and don't have anything constructive to add, leave.

One minor thing- could you change negative cash transactions back to red text? It makes things slightly easier to pick out.