| Hephaestos said: Well I stopped at your 2 reasons cause I disagree on these... the main reason the userbase might be decaying is sales.... we don't have full sales charts and what is available is difficult to browse through. I used to be able to do comparative graphs on the fly, but I just can't find where to do that anymore. All these features that were unique to this site are gone... why would someone come here? small community with a news system that lags behind mainstream sites, what in this would attract someone? I'm not saying the site is bad... just that what brought me here isn't there anymore. |
This. There are many good new things and many bad choices in the previous version of the site have been fixed, but the heart of VGChartz were, well, er, as its very name suggests, the charts. Nothing wrong about selling premium new or beefed up features and tools to paying users, but removing standard features to make them premium was a bad choice. Comparative charts is one of the most notable features missing, but weekly charts were crippled too, with less sorting options and dramatically reduced number of games listed, just 40 SW titles in the weekly charts is way too little, particularly WW and when many titles are released. What improved, improved a lot, so without crippled parts the forums should acually grow.
About forums proliferation: what's the purpose of "Latest charts" if older ones discussions remain there too?
