Ever have a day on VGC where you feel there clearly isn't anything worth it

[MaxwellGT2000]

Smeags said:

This is a comic I made in... 2008? I think it was 2008... anyways...

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Anywho, what I'm really trying to do now-a-days is be involved in things here on this forum that get people interested in the actual games. Whether it's the VGC Most Wanted, Recommendation Guides, Pokemon Black/White thread, or whatever... I just want people to be excited about the things that matter most for our awesome hobby: the games.

Haha quite funny I remember the thread on this one and it really does line up with when the community changed drastically as the site became more popular in 2008.  

And yes I like the game discussion threads, in fact I create a lot of impressions threads, like my Okamiden thread I posted and linked to you, but it seems unless it's uber hyped game 4371 no one else discusses it, then for some random reason a random member of the angry mob pops in to say how much he hates the game he's never played  

The only problem with this time of the year is the lack of decent titles, there's Portal 2.... that's about it till OoT remake... so no thread's to discuss what I'm playing (which is the main reason for my What are you currently playing thread) and the discussions about the consoles are just like that next to last panel lol

So when I created this thread, there was nothing to discuss game wise, there was no interesting game threads, and people were so involved in rumors I just didn't feel like pointing out the pink elephant in the room 200 times over...

It's partially the time of the year, another factor is who is posting what, the problem being comes in the form of a public forum you can't regulate who signs up and posts, only moderate posts that go against the express written rules laid out, and there's just a lot of people who like to skirt around those rules, like basically you can stop a troll from posting but you can't regulate the quality of poster, there is no IQ test, reasoning skills assesment, or a siminar on the historical trends of sales to become a member lol

The only way to regulate any of that is to become a closed forum like GAF and no one really wants that, if there was a way to strike a real balance it would be perfect, but really VGC was a little known site prior to 2008, as per small sites that grow they have a dedicated group that finds the site and builds up the community with other friends, so the quality is similar and once traffic goes up, the small dedicated community is thrust out into the general net populace... which isn't always a fun nor intelligent place for discussion.   But VGC captured me back before it became the awesome and popular new kid on the block amongst gaming sites, even though many of the really good posters left, a good fraction of the quality posters from yore are still around, and from all the talks we all have it seems like we keep each other around and give each other reasons to discuss and reply to some of these really silly threads/posts.