bigjon said:
1st, while we have never really seen eye to eye on anything I like you as a poster and am sad to see you go. May I ask why? To mafoo- I am a fierce economic conservative and I too do not like what I see. I am currently a logitics officer in the Army, and I believe my position gives me a good prospective. The US is not in good shape, but, most of the rest of the world is in worse shape. I agree the main issue is mindset. There used to be a prevailling mindset that was something like You need to work to eat... at a base level. People now, moreso than before believe for some reason the government owes them something. I think if we look at just about any case where people are giving something, they will lose the will to achieve greater things (Native American on reservations case in point) Governments job is to protect the people from outside threat, and each other. Thats about it. Now those two things are very broad and you could make a case for just about anything thing in one of those 2 categories. Well, I am tired and will probably make little sense so I shall stop. I hope you find happiness at your new home. |
@Mafoo: Well if it makes you feel any better, you changed my mind. And I'm glad you did. I probably won't move out of the country, but if I did, it'd be somewhere much cooler. This summer weather doesn't agree with me.
Bigjon: Thank you. I feel like we used to be classic enemies, but I'm over that now. I appreciate the encouragement. I really don't want to make too many posts (kind of ruins the point of leaving the site), so I'll try not to go on for too long.
I look at this site, and I see many of the problems with it that Mafoo has with the United States. This site tries to change in so many ways and ultimately it was best at its roots. We've seen all these new features and editors and a completely redesigned site and ultimately Vgchartz (according to Alexa) is far less popular than it was 2 years ago. What the hell is with that?
I've been with the site since 2007 (which I'd say makes me somewhat of a veteran), and I've seen it change in a lot of ways, but it never really needed to. VGC 2.0 was shit and so is VGC 3.0. For all the effort, 3.0 is just as much of a disorganized clusterfuck as the last redesign. Where's the progress? VGC 1.0 wasn't perfect, but it was much simpler than 2.0 and 3.0 and it worked a lot better. I mean, look at Gamefaqs (which is one of the most popular videogame sites in the world). One of the biggest reasons for its success is its simple layout and accessibility. Anything you'd want to find on Gamefaqs (that can be found there) is fairly easy to find and get to. I still don't know my way around Vgchartz 3.0, and this new color scheme is just as ugly as the last one. So we've substituted white and green and a lot of fancy graphics work over a crappy Gamespot ripoff? WHAT WAS THE POINT?
And the site is still fairly slow. You would think this would be the most obvious thing , and for a successful site, but this site is still slow as hell. I have FiOS (and I'm a college student, I have my priorities 
), and Vgchartz can still be a bit slow for me at times. I know it's not easy to make a speedy site, but why doesn't the staff just streamline the content much better? All that work and it's still a mess. *Sigh*. I mean, just look at the news section. It's terrible. And don't bother complaining to the overly defensive staff about it either.
Like I said, I've been here for years, and in all that time, the only real new thing we've gotten regarding numbers is the "Others" charts and the Preorders charts (and maybe some other things). Those are the sorts of things people come to the site to see. Information. Sales numbers. Not videogame news they can find somewhere else. Not booth babes articles that are a dime a dozen. If the team spent half the effort they did coming out with pointless things than they did organizing new info, we could have had a PC chart and a bunch of other interesting info by now. But alas...
Ahh, whatever. This rant has gone on too long. There's nothing for me here. I don't want to contribute, I've lost all interest in the database, and when VGC 3.0 came out, I wasn't even told how to edit polls (you know, since I was the only one doing it and they got thousands of votes). Why? Am I just worth THAT little to the administrators? Sure, you could claim they were really busy, but no one is really that busy if they're spending hours at their computers. No one is really so busy as to not be able to spend a minute or so sending a PM to a staff member and long time member. Not that I am those things anymore.
Fuck this site.
