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Was it better in the old days?

Hellz yeah! 53 59.55%
 
Naaaw, I don't know... 5 5.62%
 
I don't care... 5 5.62%
 
w00T?! Noooooo! 3 3.37%
 
I miss my old friends/frienemies :( 5 5.62%
 
Now is not the time to look back! 8 8.99%
 
Meeh, show resultz 10 11.24%
 
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TrevDaRev said:
DanneSandin said:
TrevDaRev said:
I miss the 'Top 200' the most. I remember when global software numbers went up at the end of the week the first thing I did was click onto them and go to the 4th (last) page and work my way backwards from 200 to 1. I loved to see how all the old PS2 games were selling, miss those days.

I've never heard of that features... when did that dissapear?



With the arrival of VGC Pro. It went from 'Top 200' to 'Top 30 or 40', can't remember which, anyway, that felt like a huge slap in the face.

So you miss going thru 200 top games? Is it that you feel that top 40 is to small?



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Gilgamesh said:

It's pretty simple, happens all the time. In order to get big you have to sacrifice the community.

Back in the day VG Chartz was more of a family, there wasn't that many people, everyone was close, ioi posted funny stuff, the mods or admins had fun from time to time with threads messing with people. Everyone heavely favoured one video game company and everyone knew what it was. Basically once ioi quit his job to run VG Chartz and it stopped being a fun hobby and everything took a serious turn, which is fine it makes perfect sense for ioi, who wouldn't wanna run there own website at home as a job, doing what they love.

Now you got tons of new members, old members leaving and the ones that didn't leave just bitch about it. The mods have to be more professional about there job, same as ioi everything just got serious...where's the joker when you need him.

So, if you could what would you change around here then?



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DanneSandin said:
sethnintendo said:
Gilgamesh said:

.where's the joker when you need him.


The only joker I know of left on this site would be D21.  He is about the only one on this site that can make me laugh.  Almost everyone else has a lame sense of humor.


Yeah, he's a funny guy =)

Kind of forgot to give a shout out to badgenome (and a few others) but all good.  There are a few others that have made me laugh though.  I believe that most Microsoft/Sony fans have a terrible sense of humor.



sethnintendo said:
Gilgamesh said:

where's the joker when you need him.


The only joker I know of left on this site would be D21.  He is about the only one on this site that can make me laugh.  Almost everyone else has a lame sense of humor.

...i was referring to the joker in batman because I kept saying how serious the site was....why so serious?



sethnintendo said:
DanneSandin said:
sethnintendo said:
Gilgamesh said:

.where's the joker when you need him.


The only joker I know of left on this site would be D21.  He is about the only one on this site that can make me laugh.  Almost everyone else has a lame sense of humor.


Yeah, he's a funny guy =)

Kind of forgot to give a shout out to badgenome (and a few others) but all good.  There are a few others that have made me laugh though.  I believe that most Microsoft/Sony fans have a terrible sense of humor.


Sony fanboys have humor... Now B_E_L_I_E_V_E

(Is that how it's done?:P)



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DanneSandin said:
Gilgamesh said:

It's pretty simple, happens all the time. In order to get big you have to sacrifice the community.

Back in the day VG Chartz was more of a family, there wasn't that many people, everyone was close, ioi posted funny stuff, the mods or admins had fun from time to time with threads messing with people. Everyone heavely favoured one video game company and everyone knew what it was. Basically once ioi quit his job to run VG Chartz and it stopped being a fun hobby and everything took a serious turn, which is fine it makes perfect sense for ioi, who wouldn't wanna run there own website at home as a job, doing what they love.

Now you got tons of new members, old members leaving and the ones that didn't leave just bitch about it. The mods have to be more professional about there job, same as ioi everything just got serious...where's the joker when you need him.

So, if you could what would you change around here then?

Hmm hard to say, with the oldies leaving I became a top dog pretty quick. As for epic funny threads they are missed. I'm trying to bring comedic threads to VG Chartz but it's hard to get anyone to bite, it get's frustrating. Back in the day that wouldn't of been a problem, people would of played along quite a bit, it's what made it fun to come to the forums.

My only advice for what to change is people need to lighten up, were on the internet let's have fun (not in a pissing everyone off kinda way). As for newbies find your thing to branch out of the newbie zone. Find what will make you branch out and make everything think hey it's X guy, he must be doing his X thing again. That's what i noticed that's lacking, to many of the same people, often spamming and not enough originality.

Also I miss the graphs and all the detailed info we had about all the consoles/handheld. I made a lot of threads based on stuff like that. It's a shame they were takin away.



Gilgamesh said:

Hmm hard to say, with the oldies leaving I became a top dog pretty quick. As for epic funny threads they are missed. I'm trying to bring comedic threads to VG Chartz but it's hard to get anyone to bite, it get's frustrating. Back in the day that wouldn't of been a problem, people would of played along quite a bit, it's what made it fun to come to the forums.

My only advice for what to change is people need to lighten up, were on the internet let's have fun (not in a pissing everyone off kinda way). As for newbies find your thing to branch out of the newbie zone. Find what will make you branch out and make everything think hey it's X guy, he must be doing his X thing again. That's what i noticed that's lacking, to many of the same people, often spamming and not enough originality.

Also I miss the graphs and all the detailed info we had about all the consoles/handheld. I made a lot of threads based on stuff like that. It's a shame they were takin away.

Oh man, I wouldn't even now where to "branch out"... what the hell? :P But I agree that ppl need to lighten up! It's not until recently I've understood what ppl like Rol is doing (well, at least in some cases)... I think I saw you over att the Wii fad thread, right? I found that quite amusing! But what is a thread of epic propotions to you?!



I'm on Twitter @DanneSandin!

Furthermore, I think VGChartz should add a "Like"-button.

Gilgamesh said:

where's the joker when you need him.

That would be Rol... or Badgenome



sethnintendo said:
Gilgamesh said:

where's the joker when you need him.


The only joker I know of left on this site would be D21.  He is about the only one on this site that can make me laugh.  Almost everyone else has a lame sense of humor.

Hmm, what about badgenome and amp316? D21 is a helluva funny guy though, you're absolutely right about that.



DanneSandin said:
Gilgamesh said:
 

Hmm hard to say, with the oldies leaving I became a top dog pretty quick. As for epic funny threads they are missed. I'm trying to bring comedic threads to VG Chartz but it's hard to get anyone to bite, it get's frustrating. Back in the day that wouldn't of been a problem, people would of played along quite a bit, it's what made it fun to come to the forums.

My only advice for what to change is people need to lighten up, were on the internet let's have fun (not in a pissing everyone off kinda way). As for newbies find your thing to branch out of the newbie zone. Find what will make you branch out and make everything think hey it's X guy, he must be doing his X thing again. That's what i noticed that's lacking, to many of the same people, often spamming and not enough originality.

Also I miss the graphs and all the detailed info we had about all the consoles/handheld. I made a lot of threads based on stuff like that. It's a shame they were takin away.

Oh man, I wouldn't even now where to "branch out"... what the hell? :P But I agree that ppl need to lighten up! It's not until recently I've understood what ppl like Rol is doing (well, at least in some cases)... I think I saw you over att the Wii fad thread, right? I found that quite amusing! But what is a thread of epic propotions to you?!

DMeisterJ caught cheating for example. The OP is missing but basically what happened in the thread was a well known user was found at GAF which at the time was some serious wars going on back and forth. But anyway a well known user from VG Chartz (DMJ) was posting in GAF and saying how he liked it so much, anyway Benga  (at the time a Site Administer) was in GAF looking around and found DMJ in there posting how he likes GAF more. Anyway Benga made a thread about it and people were making fun of him calling him a whore and DMJ was playing along just as much. He also got banned for a few hours and since Benga was a site admin he wrote "site whore" above his avatar on his profile and DMJ made a bunch of alts trying to keep coming back and giving his explanation lol it was great. There are a handful of times I actually bursted out laughing at a thread, and this was one.

Another one is every year ioi was watched the F1 and he would like one guy and I think thesource liked another. Anyway at the time thesource was a site admin and ioi got pissed because his guy lost and anyone who liked the other guy would get a ban by ioi and in the end thesource ended up banning ioi. It happened a couple times both with pretty halarious.

Another time there was a thread and I forget who but maybe ioi banned all the mods on the site for the night for some reason lol

There was some fun with Trashleg and ioi one night when there were arguing (not really seriously) about something and ioi was like I'm the boss you can't ban me, which she ended up doing then he baned her lol something like that funny thread.

Basically when the mods or site admins get involved it makes a thread pretty fun.