Sadly, the elimination, Mafia and doom threads are what's keeping VGC alive at this point. Without them, the place would turn into a ghost town since no one talks about games anymore. If you want to talk about games, you have to look elsewhere like neogaf, GameSpot, maybe even siliconera since they report news to your gaming taste.
My biggest problem with VGC is that they're too many sub-forums. Before, we had a Nintendo, Sony, Gaming, Microsoft, General Discussion, Sales and Website forums. Now we have: Movies, Sports, Politics, NSFW, Music, Sony, four forums dedicated to the website, General, MMO, Mobile, two sales forum, etc. Before, we had all the music/movie/politics/etc stuff under general discussion. Now, we have to look at each forum individually; it's too much clicking and takes longer to find what you're looking for. Same goes for website issues. The multiple sub-forums would work if the community was big and active like neogaf. I now just check the first two pages of the hot topics.
