| Michael-5 said: Glad to cheer you up. Seriously though, I only joined VGC to vote for the Most Wanted Threads. I don't think you were making them back then, and in the transition from (Smeags?) to you I even wrote a Most Wanted feature. Right now, ioi gives no pretty much no power to make this website better. All he cares about is Gamewise, while TrunksSwd (or William D'Angelo) writes all the articles for this website. So had it not been for your threads, I'd have left too. Plus the Top 50 games at the end of the year, that's the other thread (also by you? Can't remember) which keeps me here. I edit my top 50 list every month, hard to nail down a position for a game. |
I started doing these threads on February 22, 2012, when I started the April 2012 Edition vote. Smeags quit doing the Most Wanted late in 2011, and I thought to myself "I'll just wait till somebody picks up the torch and do it properly." A few months later, I thought "Crap, the torch is still lying around" and proceeded to hijack it. And the rest, as they say, is history. It took me a few months to learn how to not be an idiot about tallying votes, and things have changed a lot in two years, so its been plenty of fun. I guess that the next vote will technically be my two-year anniversary for this feature.
It's a shame that VGChartz is basically running on autopilot. Especially since Gamewise, to my knowledge, really hasn't taken off that much, nor does it fill as needed a niche as VGChartz does. With no offense to Gamewise, if it disappeared tomorrow, there would be a bunch of other sites that could ease the pain of loss. Other than VGChartz though, game sales are hard to find.
Smeags still does the Top 50 thing every year, but I do vote in that. Can't say I'm as devoted as you are though; every year, I just take last year's list, write all the new games I've played on the side, and rearrange them as necessary. That said, my Top 10 has not changed much these past two years. I've played some good games during this time, but my all-time faves were largely determined in the 2009 to 2011 period.
Anyhow, thanks again.
