How do you feel about the current state of VGC? - A Survey

[Ganoncrotch]

When did you join the site, and what were your reasons for joining?
To comment on the walls of games and then on articles... much later to post on the forums when it became apparent that the moderators here were fairly keen to keep the place from being a "youtube comments" section in terms of trolling being chastised rather than encouraged.

How has your interest in VGChartz evolved as your time here has passed?
As the attention moved away from sales numbers on here so has mine in the site, it is very clear over the last 2 years that the sales figures were far less important to the site owners as such I can't be excited about numbers on a site that isn't, if I went to youtube today and all the videos were not loading then I would hardly be expected to keep going there for my online video fill.

How often do you frequent/check VGC? Which sections of the site do you visit most frequently?

Daily at least 3-4 times, check the articles to see if people have posted any sales or interesting news which has come up in the gaming world, sometimes a glance at the numbers and check if there is NDP threads up to take a look at US numbers but as a person from EU then I'm not wholly interested in the buying habits of the Americans nor 2 month old date from here.
How do you feel about the community here? Is it better/poorer than when you first joined?

Community is okay in places, some members seem to have a free pass now from moderation as that is seen as "just how that user is" but it is boring at times that some members of VGchartz add nothing more to threads than sarcastic put downs of the news featured or other users but yeah... it's just passed off as "how they are" and others are recommended to ignore them rather than seek moderators to put them straight.
How do you feel about the current changes/fixes/updates being made on VGC?
Coming here on my mobile phone or a device which doesn't have antivirus is never an option for me, the adverts / popups are bordering on the same levels are proxy/download websites I use for pirated programs, as such I don't use the site on work PCs either because it just really is a shambles to allow some of the shit which has been allowed here in terms of advertising, some of the things which are being fixed are sort of good... for VGchartz, but to be getting a semi functional mobile version of the site in the final months of 2017 is absolutely massively out of date, it is the equivalent of discussing the 1080p features of a TV in 2017, sure... it's nice to see, but also it's 2017 and that should have happened 5 years ago.

Fill in any other information/thoughts/feedback/reception here

If I'm not mistaken the site owner for here doesn't give a rats about the place? He has no vision for the future? there seems to have been no direct feedback from him other than the site is a part of what pays some bills, if the site is or isn't profitable or if that changes at a point I feel as though the lack of importance of the site to the owner means he would have zero issues whatsoever in turning the lights off on the place if someone offered him a fiver to do so (I mean... if it was financially easier for him to do so) it's just hard to commit to a website which has a shaky present / future in the eyes of the owner. Again if youtube was a site which could disappear tomorrow, would you see content creators investing their time in it? of course not.

I don't mean to sound really down on the site, and this isn't meant to be overly critical of it, but I'm just being honest as to why I've not been as active here myself or why I don't think I've made a thread which more than 2 paragraphs of OP in the last year, simply put the owner hasn't interest in here and my interest goes in line with that.

 

 

Edit - Oh yeah seen it in another post above me, but those nation threads spawn nothing but segregation and absolutely create a them/us environment in the community here, they should be re-worked or removed.