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Killy_Vorkosigan said:

It will be harder to follow E3 now on VGC. Too bad .... I am still totally lost when I try to find news and so on. Please, bring back VGC 2.0 !


I don't understand the confusion. All news is on gamrFeed. ALL NEWS! Even previews and reviews! You won't miss a thing if you stick to gamrFeed.

We've also dedicated a special page for Reviews and Previews for those that are really into that (gamrReview). It also contains our game database.

ALL numbers are on VGChartz.

The whole community is on gamrConnect.

I know some people honestly are not a fan of the new layout and that's fine. To be honest, I think you guys will get used to it. But a lot of you would be happier if you just explored! In fact, read the hub page! You know the one you were directed to first? It'll explain a lot :)

And it won't be hard to follow VGC at E3. We will have a mini-site. And everyone will be able to find it easily. That is where all of our E3 articles will be linked. It's going to be great. We are going to 7 press conferences and have booked over 50 private appointments with all of your favorite video game companies. There will be nearly 200 articles posted in that one week. We are also bringing camera equipement, so you may see us on video, as well. And if anyone is in the LA area, come out to our VGChartz E3 party. A bunch of video game companies have donated thousands of dollars worth of raffle prizes plus you'll get to hear two amazing video game bands live.



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makingmusic476 said:
twesterm said:

Also, I suppose this is as good as spot as any to ask, are there any plans to make a VGChartz 3.0 app?


ioi said making the site workable on mobile phones is low on their priority list, so I doubt they've even thought about working on an app.

We've thought of it. But there is a lot to get done before we start work on that.



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Is it just for me that the sales page shows the "hardware chart" overlapped with the "welcome to vgchartz" paragraph on the right?

I didn't complain about this before because I thought it was so obvious that it would get noticed immediately, but I'm still seeing that.

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loadedstatement said:
Killy_Vorkosigan said:

It will be harder to follow E3 now on VGC. Too bad .... I am still totally lost when I try to find news and so on. Please, bring back VGC 2.0 !


I don't understand the confusion. All news is on gamrFeed. ALL NEWS! Even previews and reviews! You won't miss a thing if you stick to gamrFeed.

We've also dedicated a special page for Reviews and Previews for those that are really into that (gamrReview). It also contains our game database.

ALL numbers are on VGChartz.

The whole community is on gamrConnect.

I know some people honestly are not a fan of the new layout and that's fine. To be honest, I think you guys will get used to it. But a lot of you would be happier if you just explored! In fact, read the hub page! You know the one you were directed to first? It'll explain a lot :)

And it won't be hard to follow VGC at E3. We will have a mini-site. And everyone will be able to find it easily. That is where all of our E3 articles will be linked. It's going to be great. We are going to 7 press conferences and have booked over 50 private appointments with all of your favorite video game companies. There will be nearly 200 articles posted in that one week. We are also bringing camera equipement, so you may see us on video, as well. And if anyone is in the LA area, come out to our VGChartz E3 party. A bunch of video game companies have donated thousands of dollars worth of raffle prizes plus you'll get to hear two amazing video game bands live.

It's just harder to get around at the moment.  I was messing around with my game collection on gamrConnect yesterday when I realized Yoshi's Story was missing.  I type Yoshi's Story into the search bar, and it tells me there are no users with that name.  >_>

Turns out I have to go to an entirely separate website to search for the game, and only then can I add it to my collection.  I managed to get it done through gamrReview.

Then a little while later I was chatting about sales with some people on the forums, and decide to go look up the figures for a few games.  I annoyingly head on over to gamrReview since I oddly can't search for games/sales on a forum dedicated to discussing such things, only to find that the pages for each game on gamrReview contain no sales information whatsoever!  You get total sales when initially searching for the game, but you don't get total sales, weekly sales, or anything of the sort when accessing the actual page, let alone the ability to access graphs.  Turns out I can only get that on VGChartz. 

So I head there.

The simplest of tasks now take forever because everything is split into different websites.  It's silly.

I used to have the ability to search for games, threads, and general information from any page while on the forums, and searching for users was only a single click away.  Now I have to head to different websites to find any of that information.  What used to take 2-3 clicks total now takes 5-6, effectively doubling the time it takes to get anything done.

The concept of having entire sections dedicated to the various portions of the site is sound, but the way things are currently integrated together just doesn't work well.



NJ5 said:

Is it just for me that the sales page shows the "hardware chart" overlapped with the "welcome to vgchartz" paragraph on the right?

I didn't complain about this before because I thought it was so obvious that it would get noticed immediately, but I'm still seeing that.

Using Firefox on linux.

I noticed someone had that problem earlier in the thread (someone posted a print-screen of their view)

I have no problems of that kind myself though (Firefox 3.6.3 on Windows 7)



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As for people complaining about green on white, It looks great and I don't find it difficult at all.... tbh it was harder to read the old X360 green on the dark grey in 2.0 for me, and that wasn't a problem compared to the Playstation red... I am glad I didn't want to check out PS forums too much back then.

I think a number of design problems encountered come from the fact that people spend way too long on this site some people get eyestrain from black on white, some from grey on white, some from white on black (me included). difference is people don't spend so long on sites like IGN and Gamespot (though IGN is a terrible site as is it, GS is ok apart from the white on black text which I don't like)



This will take some getting use to.



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Khuutra said:

O, oh, I've got one! Since the forums automatically scale all images to 100x100, we still have to load the whole images. Some of these images can be... large. I don't know how large! I have not tested.

How about a filesize cap? Say, 40KB or less?

But in return, we can use animated gifs maybe?

O_O dear god no...

It's bad enough that they are so vigorously used in sigs already!

It's awesome to see all the improvements that have come around since launch already. And I love that we can tell who is online, but I have to level the same criticism at it as I did in 2.0. Please use a sign instead of pure text. It's even worse to look at now, because everything else is so beautifully encapsuled in appropriate boxes, but *Online* just sits there. Do something like this:  

Pretty pretty please?



Oh, and I found a bug. 

I tried to edit a picture I had inserted into my post (in the popup editor), but I couldn't select it and get back into the menu for editing it, so I had to delete it and reinsert it.

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Rainbird said:
Khuutra said:

O, oh, I've got one! Since the forums automatically scale all images to 100x100, we still have to load the whole images. Some of these images can be... large. I don't know how large! I have not tested.

How about a filesize cap? Say, 40KB or less?

But in return, we can use animated gifs maybe?

O_O dear god no...

It's bad enough that they are so vigorously used in sigs already!

It's awesome to see all the improvements that have come around since launch already. And I love that we can tell who is online, but I have to level the same criticism at it as I did in 2.0. Please use a sign instead of pure text. It's even worse to look at now, because everything else is so beautifully encapsuled in appropriate boxes, but *Online* just sits there. Do something like this:  

Pretty pretty please?


I agree, but I say make it so that if a user is online, the box around their name is green (like mine), and if they're offline, make it dark gray (like yours).  We don't need the boxes color-coded to denote position anymore, given we now have actual tags.  Plus it's odd when somebody like maxwellgt is blue despite holding 3-4 positions.