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BasilZero said:

JEMC said:

The site is already a shadow of what it was. I remember when I'd need to go to the second page of the Latest Topics section to find the last ones I saw the night before. Now, if I check the Latest Topics page I find that the last one has ten days...

And my personal situation isn't much better, as I've mostly cornered to this thread and the Most Wanted ones (that reminds me that I still haven't voted in the February one).

So, if/when this forum closes, I'll likely just move away from forums and likely other similar places. I don't like Reddit and while I'm on Discord, I'm not very active there.

Yeah, reminds me of a old anime forum I used to go to back in 2006/2007 - it dwindled in its population and had very similar users that were here (in personality and character lol).

Eventually the site just went offline completely in 2011 or so.

Ironically..what started the downfall imo was a thread was made suggesting that everyone in the forum group up together to play on a private server on Ragnarok Online.

This was my first dip into PC gaming ironically and well due to the fact that a lot of the bigger posters kept playing the game, forum activity fell.

Even though the forum is gone and I dont play RO - everything paved way to me getting into PC gaming officially with Steam in 2011 - never heard of Steam prior to 2011 lol.

I'm not there because I didn't want to (and still don't want), but it wouldn't surprise me if part of the decline in activity here is because of the VGChartz Discord server, that may have pulled some people away from posting here and doing it only there. But it's just a thought and that place may also have little activity.

Anyway, my introduction to Steam was when I build my first PC and the GPU came with a Steam voucher for DiRT 2. It took me a while before I actually decided to create an account, tho, because the notion of not having phisical games was odd to me, but I eventually caved in.