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Ryuu96 on 02 September 2025
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shavenferret said:
LegitHyperbole said:

Things have gotten exceptionally bad to the point I think the forums are about to topple on their last legs. Only Curl-6 is making threads regularly and those are getting piss Al engagement.

If a few of us made a pledge to make one interesting thread per week we could get soke momentum. I'd be making threads but I'm down and out atm. What would really liven things up is some review threads, like 7 big games the past few days and days coming but no one is putting up an aggregate thread for discussion of those games, bad or good regardless.

Would anybody have suggestions as to other online forums?   Ryu, please turn a blind eye to this       

You don't have to worry about me, I'm not going to moderate anyone for talking about alternative forums, why should I punish people to protect this website when the owner himself shows so little interest in the website? There was a user once who got banned for attempting to create a rival site and poach users from this website, I'm thinking he should have been successful.

InstallBase is probably VGChartz's closest equivalent in the sense that it is focused on sales data discussion, unfortunately that's all it's focused on so it's not viable for me and I won't be signing up, as it doesn't have anything but sales related discussion, so no general gaming chat, or TV/Film chat, which is a shame because if it did I would probably sign up there.

What I will say is the fact that Install Base has been open for a few years and is already getting as much sales related discussion as VGChartz whilst only being about sales discussion is an embarrassment to VGChartz (and a credit to InstallBase) and it won't be long before InstallBase is the #1 website for sales related discussion.

When VGChartz dies I imagine a few users from here will join InstallBase, or move to Discord, I expect some will give up on forums entirely, some will move to ResetEra or r/Reddit discussions. There are some forums which are specific to certain platforms but I'm not a fan of places like that, it feels too specific and isolated, things like XboxEra and FamiBoards (Nintendo). Both are Affiliates of InstallBase.

Also to clarify, I like InstallBase, I've not checked Famiboards, even though I'm not a member of IB, they seem chill there, I'm envious they have an owner who cares, also a former VGChartz member and guy I still speak to, is a Staff Member of InstallBase, Lol. I'd like if they became friendly rivals to sort of encourage VGChartz to step up but that won't happen on the current path.

I'm probably just going to chill on Discord once VGChartz dies and not bother with gaming forums.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 02 September 2025