1. Many new members are excellent, but a lot damage the forums, they need to contribute and undertand the site.

2. Okay, this has been bugging me for a while now, you need to stop playing victim here, trolling is similar everywhere, and it was huge last year when the 3DS was doing badly, you need to realize the trolling is not only against Sony products, that's your main issue on this site, all sides are equally guilty.

3. Read number 2, and BTW, the Vita thread is really good, one of the best threads for people interested in the Vita.

4. Well, as you said, there is nothing that can be done about it.

5. Agree.

6. Agree x 1000000.

7. Agree. The removal of Sticky basically killed Official Threads and many other features.

1. yes some do, but that is where the older members should step in and say stfu and bring them to the right path so to speak

2. victim? hardly. But if you think the level of trolling/hate the 3ds recieved was anywhere near comparable to the one the psv got, you are kidding yourself. When the 3ds was announced this whole site was abuzz about the 3d screen, games, 3rd party support etc etc. But at the same time even before the reveal or even rumors for vita, nintendo fans were making threads on how vita is dead on arrival. Let me give you another example, on the day Sony revealed the vita for the first time and even had a list of around 70 odd developers for it, we had 1-2 threads in the sony section on how third parties are abandoning the system. Like I said like in the example of the recent german award thread, the system gets trolled like crazy! I already joined two other sites and have the official vita thread bookmarked and rarely go into other threads here now. There is no room for proper discussion on the system

and fun fact, if you check the troll threads for 3ds, many were actually made BY Ninty fans. joelkool comes to mind. The sad thing here is however, the more this trolling and nonsensical hate goes on, the higher the chance ninty fans will have to face the same in the future, especially when the wiiu launches. It's never gonna end without some extremely strict moderatation.

Anywho this is just how see the current situation. I appreciate the support mods have shown the official thread by helping us to keep it clean.

forum activity seems to have fallen by a fare bit.

I blame the way the foums have been spread out. It can be very clunky to navigate.

The problem is some people like talking bout games, others sales and others just off topic. But these members would cross over into all these catagories if a thread title looked interesting. Now that the site is so split up into sections they just stay into their little sections.

thus posting less and not comming on here as often because lack of conversation. I know i dont post on here anywhere as much as i used to. The site just "isnt the same" anymore.

3.0 seemed to be the best fot me, when it came to forum activity.

1. Can you really do that with many people? There is a particular user who just won't listen to anyone currently, and his bans and moderations are becoming more frequent.

2. Please, stop it.

I am not kidding myself, the trolling the 3DS got was huge, I still remember the "lolol 3DS outsells Wii in Japan!" by you in every Media Create thread back in 2011. Just because you like the Vita better, it doesn't mean the trolling rate is bigger. And I remember a lot of hype for the Vita, and a lot of doomed threads for the 3DS.

I am not saying the 3DS gets more hate, but that it does get hate, and a lot, and you fail to see that. Both consoles get smashed. WiiU will get trolled, PS4 will, 720 will. And you will have to accept the fact Sony fans have flaws too. As do Nintendo fans.

3. As a suggestion, please use CAPS properly, because the way you post does make you look like you're raging.

Edit: Also, about the German thread, everyone can have their own opinion, and while it is unfair if people complain about Vita getting the award, it's not bad if people say they disagree or if they do not like the Vita's design.

Well, everytime we try being edgy and exciting, we get banned!

OT: It has, since I've been here anyways. I see maybe 2 or 3 unique members a day and I check this site about 4 or 5 times a day for short intervals. I think that's what people are doing. They are not spending all this time you the older folks have, racking up points and posts and badges and threads per day. Personally, being a new member (I started posting sometime in 2011), I don't know any of you, I don't really care to and I don't want to spend anymore than 20 minutes at a time in here. I come here for small, fast talks and news about videogames.

Granted, the community is pretty nice but immature overall. I know cause I am too. People are more interesting in trolling and arguing than actually discuss. I don't see that know a day, except for a few threads (The Walking Dead thread) where people are actually discuss things in a proper manner.

Would bmore interesting if you put a date or timeline for all thoughts update

Well I tried to join over a month earlier than I did, but I never received an activation email, and I use gmail. I'm not really sure what went wrong, but it took several emails to a couple different spots until I got a response. Maybe new members are being cut off because of some server issue? So membership loss is outweighing membership gain due to difficulty of registration?

Meh, I love this site..

The site can be time consuming. I know I am not as active as I used to be, simply because I have to study and do other stuff to . I know a couple of guys from here whom think the same, and they dont use the site at all, or just lurk.

I also agree that the forum is waaaay to messy. We should probably have fewer categories, so it could be easier to navigate

This site was just about right before it was split into sections and tried to become too diverse.
Now it tries to do everything and the phrase 'jack of all trades, master of none' springs to mind.
There are parts of this site I never even venture into now, just because it is just too all over the place.

Maybe I see it from an original members persepective and just don't like any change but to me it does now seem like many other faceless, run of the mill gaming sites, unlike before when it seemed to have something different to offer.