are you addict to vgchartz

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ameratsu said:

ioi said:

ameratsu said:
The forums have fallen off and aren't as interesting as they used to be. I still check regularly, but I don't like the direction this site is taking.

Want to explain in more detail?...

 

Forums

• Fewer interesting topics and threads/posts that are well thought out. Lots of redundant threads.
• Too many people stick to PR talking points and don't want to critically look at issues.
• Blatant trolls and fanboys that do nothing but stir the pot to rile people up.
• Duplicate threads. Any large news story is bound to have 3-5+ threads, some which take forever to get locked.
  these all happen everywhere. Also a lot of this is perception rather than reality. It is like old people talking about the good old days. There is nothing stopping you or anyone else from creating these "interesting" topics. I guess someone needs to go make a thread about their STD or something to make off topic interesting again.
• Too many Rol impersonators.
  well, you can blame Rol
• People don't want to actually discuss games and gameplay. Not just gameplay, but genre conventions, trends, and honest discussion about game problems. It's annoying when people declare some highly rated game as perfection and want it to end there.
  In a gaming world with extreme fanboyism of course you are going to see that happen. We could become neogaf and not let anyone create an account (I just got rejected myself) or you could just create a thread and talk about gameplay and if people derail it, just report them.

Site

• Becoming more and more of a generic, dime a dozen gaming site. I know VGC isn't just a numbers site anymore, but I would say the numbers provided here have taken the back burner to other areas such as reviews and news. There's nothing inherently wrong with reviews and news, but EVERY gaming site does those, but no virtually no other site provide sales numbers. I wish VGC would bring the numbers side to the forefront again, making a particular effort to improve site perception and tracking accuracy.
  This is what ioi and company work on. What Naz, talonman, myself, or any of the DB or Review/news staff works on doesn't effect how hard ioi is working on making the numbers better. In reality there is no way for you to know this is happening other than ioi randomly posting "our data is better today" which really has no weight behind it. I don't know if you remember ioi's post from earlier, but he's already stated that he is expanding data collection and it is becoming expensive.
• Very little interesting original content. Maybe I'm the only one tired of top 10 lists.
  This is being worked on too.

Based on this list you might think I hate this site. That's really not the case. It's just not what it once was, though that may be partially a matter of my tastes changing.