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Rainbird on 04 August 2009
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Nowadays, I come here mainly for the forums.

After 2.0, it became harder to see when there were new SW numbers up, and I stopped caring for the weekly sales (though it's also partially because of not-so-exciting numbers). It's actually a little disheartening, and I'd like a better way to see when the new numbers are up, and give them a bit more focus on the frontpage, to rekindle some interest.

The game database is quite superb though, and so is the news section. VGC often has news up faster than IGN does, in my experience anyway.

Suggestions for improvements?
The portals sound good, though I would still have each portal be an important part of VGC as a whole. In other words, I'd do reviews.vgchartz.com, though you could have another URL link to it, like say gamedb.com would lead to gamedb.vgchartz.com.
The most important part for me here, would be to make sure VGC as a whole would be accesible from each of these portals, no matter what part of the site they would focus on, so the overall site still houses the content, and the community remains the same over all the portals (though where people choose to spend their time is something else, and have forums for discussing each portal could be a good idea).
So, each subsidary of VGC should be perfectly capable of running on its own, as a useful website. But every portal should provide easy access to the rest of VGC (the topbar could be remade to say "Game Database", "Reviews" etc. for the different portals perhaps, instead of the consoles), and then I think the frontpage of VGC should be almost as it is now, but also be a collection of all the most recent things that is happening in each portal, instead of just boxes that are placed on vgchartz.com
Although I wouldn't have a sales.vgchartz.com, I think the sales and charts should just be housed on vgchartz.com, along with the main forums.

I know it's a very delicate balance I am looking for, but I think it's the best way to get the different parts of the site up to speed, and at the same time make sure that VGC remains VGC.

I also think that VGC should make the IM more like the Facebook IM (though that might have been the plan all along? I can't remember ), and also make sure that it works across all these portals, so there is another thing to tie the community together across the portals.