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oldschoolfool on 01 June 2010
NJ5 said:
ioi said:
Solid_Snake4RD said:


hey we all love VGC,it is my fav site

and i know people would have worked hard over this but did you really needed to separate everything

it has a number of advantages,its alrite to expand into a network but atleast keep the VGC HUB like the all in one VGC we had earlier.


Well, what specifically is it that you dislike? The hub page lists a few of the most popular stories, latest reviews, latest chart and a few threads - is it really that different to the old homepage?

The biggest issue with the old site is that it didn't know what it was trying to be. I had this comment made to me on many occasions - are we a sales site, a reviews site, news site, community site? By throwing it all together it overwhelms many new visitors to the site and turns them away. With the new design, we have the correct balance between having seperate core areas to appeal to different people and an overall cohesiveness that pulls the site together.

Like I say, nobody likes change and those who were used to the site will want the old site back just like everybody did with 2.0. Those who can see the big picture will be excited about the new possibilities that this site offers. gamrConnect in particular is now geared more towards many smaller relationships and interactions than one large one where everybody annoys each other and trolls each other's threads. You can form friendships, track those friends, use their wall to keep in contact and then go to find the forum that is of most interest to you to post in. It will reduce trolling, taking threads off-topic and give each sub-forum a different feel. It will obviously take some time to adjust to, but it'll be worth it...

VGC 2.0 was in fact a bit overwhelming in its front page, but it did have the traditional VGC features easily accessible (sales data and forums). The reason it was overwhelming was that you were expanding the site with more and more kinds of content (reviews, news, etc.).

VGC 3.0 has the opposite problem of fracturing all the content into different sites, which many people don't appreciate as it means more mouse clicks to access the same information.

If you look at the big picture, it seems to me that the root of the problems behind both 2.0 and 3.0 is that you are trying to make the site do too much. And now reaching a point where it's no longer a site, but four different ones, none of which is as good as the original VGChartz.


This version still does the samething. I think people are nitpicking way to much.



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oldschoolfool on 01 June 2010
ioi said:
NJ5 said:

VGC 2.0 was in fact a bit overwhelming in its front page, but it did have the traditional VGC features easily accessible (sales data and forums). The reason it was overwhelming was that you were expanding the site with more and more kinds of content (reviews, news, etc.).

VGC 3.0 has the opposite problem of fracturing all the content into different sites, which many people don't appreciate as it means more mouse clicks to access the same information.

If you look at the big picture, it seems to me that the root of the problems behind both 2.0 and 3.0 is that you are trying to make the site do too much. And now reaching a point where it's no longer a site, but four different ones, none of which is as good as the original VGChartz.


The original VGChartz is now the current VGChartz - the new areas have been moved to their own sites - that's the whole point. Your post is contradictory, if you only come to the site for sales and forums then you only need to use VGChartz and gamrConnect now. Some people come here just for news so they can use gamrFeed, some will start coming for reviews / previews and will only be interested in gamrReview and so on. Many investors come to read sales data and don't want to have to go through the clutter of news posts, forum threads and comments so they'll only visit VGChartz now.

Each site has something for different people which is the whole point in splitting it up - you agreed with that yourself when you said you only want what you consider as traditional VGC features, whereas there are others out there who want different things from the site.



I actually like the design of the new Vgchartz. If I want to see reviews and previews,I'll go to the site that has that. If I want to browse the forums,I'll go the the site that has that. I actually think this new design is genius. My only complaint is the font size on the news stuff. I think you made that alittle to big,but the rest of design is pretty spot on in my opinion.



Donutsticks on 01 June 2010

Can't you clean the news page up some? I'm wearing my mouse and my finger out endlessly scrolling down just to view news that i could have otherwise found easily on the old page. Shrink the fonts down some or something to reduce all the scrolling.



V-r0cK on 01 June 2010

This will take some time getting use to, but if its benificial for VGC then thats the important thing.

I just wish the transitions of the site were bit at a time.  This kind of feels like a bomb dropped making everything scattered everywhere.

I do miss the threads that display the picture of the poster that created it and the amount of comments i has.

I like the apparence of the layout, very professional. 



Wagram on 01 June 2010

Best thing about the new Chartz is my own critical score of games without needing to write a review!

Of course some people will troll games, but I don't care. I'll be a fair judger.



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TWRoO on 01 June 2010

God I would hate to be ioi.

I love the design, there are a couple of odd desisions on features that I think are important to a lot of people but overall this is so much more awesome, and many things will likely get changed slightly just as with 2.0.

The most important thing is, now we can read for longer without our eyes hurting, partially due to the better colour scheme, but also people without widescreen no longer have to zoom out and cope with tiny text.

Wait a minute.... condensed view.
I was just about to say a few features take up a lot more space than they used to, but i'm gonna check out this "condensed view" feature (unless it's only on the news page)

Oh yeah, and I agree with Wagram, I quite like scoring my own games (though a minor suggestion would be the ability to order them by your own score)



Moren on 01 June 2010

the site is in beta, while I dislike the hub idea, it could turn better with the time.

I would have preffered the forums and news all in one place



oldschoolfool on 01 June 2010

I like it. You get a thumbs up from me.



Siko1989 on 01 June 2010

can someone send me a pic to what VGC 1.0 looked like? i wasnt around then lol...

 

anyway i loved the original vgchartz 2.0 the best but im getting used to this one already, it just needs more colour to the vgchartz area




Siko1989 on 01 June 2010

and can someone tell me where to search for game sales? and how do you write a review and everything?