VGChartz Forum Changes

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@ Spurge:

The first news we had about the split / new site / reorganisation / call it as you want was this:

ioi on 07 August 2011

Well listen, I certainly don't regret any changes we've made at any point or wish anything was any different - a lot of things that have been done have made some huge advances for VGChartz as a business and were essential. In many ways, VGChartz is stronger now than it has ever been. A good example of this is the growth on gamrReview in the last 6 months which has been enormous and will only continue to grow. This wouldn't have been possible on the old site layout.

The fundamental change that I'm going to make (and I'm giving no more details at the moment) is that we are building two sites - one to focus on sales / industry / data (much like the VGChartz of 2008-2009) and a second to focus on the new areas we have moved into (game database, reviews, news, videos, cheats) aimed at general gamers.

The step to split the sites into the gamr brands proved the concept that there is an audience for non-sales content (reviews, cheats etc) but in doing so we have alienated the core VGChartz audience. As more and more content has been added the site has become bloated and lost its identity - the multi-domains worked to an extent but wasn't the right solution - it made the site harder to navigate and didn't really split the audiences in the way I wanted.

Having two totally separate sites with different names, urls, focuses, audiences will keep everyone happy - VGChartz will be about VGChartz and focus on what separates us from everyone else - intelligent discussion, sales data, tools etc, while the new site will focus on general gaming and develop the new content and areas we've been working on without diluting VGChartz. Older members will love the new VGChartz site with the renewed focus on data while the newer members will enjoy the new site as well as the new audiences that it will draw in. Some users will use both sites which is fine, some will prefer one or the other.

It will be a huge step but one that will allow both areas of content to grow independently.

Since then the plan has changed, reviews now have their own site, but if the rest still holds true then the move of our games collection to the new site is reasonable.

Not that I like it, but it fits in the general plan.

And your critic reviews won't disappear, they will be moved to the new site. Just like the critics added by the rest of us