New Poll - why do you visit VGChartz?

[MontanaHatchet]

ioi said:

MontanaHatchet said:

While I think this is all nice stuff, it's a bit unneeded. Gamefaqs is king on game guides, it's why they're one of the biggest sites worldwide. The other two are widely covered by big sites like Gamespot and IGN. I believe these would be useful additions, but they're not going to help the site get any bigger (content maybe, slowdown considerably). The two main draws of any video game website are content and community. Our main content consists of sales numbers, and our articles related to them (such as those from the Source), and those are the things that are the most popular. Those are the things we need to work on. The real key is making a revolution out of the content, something that would draw whole new kinds of attention. A better format would help, but this site has been stuck at the same web rank with all sorts of different formats.

And community. Well, I already ranted about that. I'd be perfectly willing to help with that if you think it will improve the site.

Yeah I think you're hitting the nail on the head. We can't really compete with other sites in terms of video content or cheats or whatever so maybe we should focus more on what we do best and maybe even look to partner with those sites to either licence or link to their content in exchange for them linking to us or using us?

At the same time (I probably sound schizophrenic but I am showing both sides to this issue) we have some great reviewers on the team, we have a huge game database - I think some of the "non-sales" features we've added are things we do better than most other sites and are a great asset to VGC along with the sales charts etc that we are best known for...

Thanks for listening. I just think that all of these additions over the past few months, as great as they are, haven't let the site grow in popularity. I support them, but they won't take us to greatness. We have a niche (sales numbers) and we need to expand on it. Adding tons of additional features is something we should once we're already a big site. The content we have is among the best. We have an awesome review team and a great team in the database (and I can attest to being part of both!).

We need to find a way to expand our niche that appeals to a greatly wider range of people. I don't where to expand, but then again, I'm not part of the numbers team. I think tracking emerging markets would be revolutionary for this site, but it's only among a couple things that could be done to expand the sales section of our site. I have a sales/database suggestion that could change the site greatly and it's been sitting in the suggestions queue for months and months now.

We need a revolution, both in the community and content. Think Nintendo. They're doing pretty well for themselves, ehh?