Has Vgchartz gotten boring?

[Shinobi-san]

Ryuu96 said:

Shinobi-san said:

I think a few issues:

1. People still clinging to their "Nation" threads years later or rather "mega" threads in general. I warned moderators about this and I believe it should be stopped. People are posting their opinions in those threads and not in the forum...in fact many new articles are not even posted in the forums these days. I find all my news/rumours/trailers from Youtube these days...and when i come on Vgchartz to give an opinion - nothing. I would need to navigate a Nation thread...and god forbid you post in a thread where you are not welcome due to supposed allegience.

Nation threads are an integral part of VGChartz, taking them away would be an awful idea and end up in even more users leaving, I'm fairly certain if I closed Empire, most of the Xbox users would move to Discord instead. If you want to, you could always easily make a thread instead of waiting for someone else to, maybe I will start making threads from the news I post but I don't want to feel like I'm hoarding it all and it's all on me to post.

Honestly, I think Nation threads are the easy thing to blame but that doesn't look deeper than the surface.

I'll speak being the owner of Empire, I've made it clear that Empire is welcome to anyone, I make it clear I don't really care if you play your Xbox titles on Console, PC, Mobile, etc. We've called Microsoft out on the bad stuff but this is from users who know each other well, obviously if your first post in the thread is a negative one, it's going to look a little suspect? Lol.

Hell the only reason I joined this website was the Nation threads, Lol.

Just one disclaimer here, my post had 4 or 5 points and they were in no particular order. I would say the lack of focus on Sales threads is the most important point I raised. If we were to run a survey I'd say its the main reason most older users have joined.

Also i mistakenly have pointed out "Nation" threads, but what im really referring to is an over reliance on any and all "Mega" threads. This was not a target on the Xbox nation thread.

Its quite simple for me....I see an update on the Xbox Nation thread, I'm interested, I go in I am lost. I see an update on the PS Nation thread, I'm interested, I go in I am lost. I see an update on the PC thread, I go in and im lost. I see an update on CGI's mega graphics thread and I'm pretty lost there too. We have a few of them and its really hard to navigate, it definitely limits threads on the forum, because the guys who maintain nation threads are generally the most active on the site. I know a lot of people on the forum will not participate in and become a part of a mega thread. There are parameters within these threads, whether unspoken or spoken that are separate from outside of these threads.

"obviously if your first post in the thread is a negative one, it's going to look a little suspect? Lol."

I think the above line pretty much sums it up. No issue with it, it is just the reality. 

There is a place for these threads, especially for smaller news articles that don't warrant a thread, but given the lack of news threads on the forum I would say its gotten to a point where these threads are imperative. Also in my post im not saying it must be removed or anything like that, just giving my opinion on why the Forum seems boring.