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Why so little activity?

We banned the trouble makers 13 16.05%
 
School's in 13 16.05%
 
The industry is slow 25 30.86%
 
Nintendo has taken over 22 27.16%
 
Other (please explain) 8 9.88%
 
Total:81
d21lewis on 31 August 2012
Kresnik said:
I chose "other". My reason is: Because you're here.


Oh.  I see.  Well, I can take a hint.  Goodbye.



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Kresnik on 31 August 2012
sensebringer said:
It does not help that almost every thread with a decent post count is about how the PSV is doomed and how the Wii U will fail.


But in all seriousness, this doesn't help.  I took a few day's break from here because I was getting tired of seeing "Wii-U is underpowered" and "Vita on life support" threads.



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d21lewis on 31 August 2012
kitler53 said:
alright d21lewis - i'm not one to typically create threads but i have one rolling around in my brain. it will likely fail but if it does you are now required to accept responsibility for my failures. i'll post it on my lunch hour.

The only failed thread is the thread you don't post....or my thread about WTF Metal Gear Solid Moments.  You post the the thread and I'll post in it.  Deal?



Mr Khan on 31 August 2012
Boutros said:

I don't know about everyone else but I kinda lost a lot of interest in sales mainly since this generation is slowly dying and since I don't like the way sales charts are being posted now. I much prefered the more simple NA UP and EMEAA UP and JAPAN UP and the last one would be the WW UP. Also, they used to come out at specific days of the week. Now it's just random.

Also the whole database is broken and many games are missing.

But the forums are still great I think!

Supposedly what will happen is that eventually your gamewise account will link backwards to your VGC account, so that games you follow there will be added to your list here

All at a time "TBD" of course...



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TruckOSaurus on 31 August 2012
happydolphin said:
I personally don't stay up at night posting anymore. I also don't post as much during the day because I've been learning to give RL the portion of time it needs. So I'm personally on less, but definitely still here.

So you're saying it's all your fault!



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kitler53 on 31 August 2012
d21lewis said:
kitler53 said:
alright d21lewis - i'm not one to typically create threads but i have one rolling around in my brain. it will likely fail but if it does you are now required to accept responsibility for my failures. i'll post it on my lunch hour.

The only failed thread is the thread you don't post....or my thread about WTF Metal Gear Solid Moments.  You post the the thread and I'll post in it.  Deal?

deal.



TruckOSaurus on 31 August 2012

To everyone who said they have some threads in the back of their minds, I only have one thing to say: Do it!

Threads that are basically an article from another site are useful and informative but my favorite threads will always be the ones where the OP took the time to write up something original.



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Gilgamesh on 31 August 2012

uhh it's 9am I just woke up...need tea talk later.



VicViper on 31 August 2012

I don't know about gamrconnect... but my japanese 3ds sales thread is almost there :(

Anyway... to me it's the whole Vita vs 3DS thing. When a new generation begins it's normal to have heated discussions. But it's not the case, now... since vita news and talks are mostly concentrated in one thread. And the animosity between the two is growing strong. It began with the 3DS dooming and it's getting critical now on the Vita dooming stage.

That leaves with:

1 - Dead gen news (nobody really cares now)
2 - New gen news (dies quickly as there's no opposite replies)

One thing I always defend is that while a lot of people talk about vita's sales, very few people talk about it's games. There's almost no trolling about that, which is the only offensive thing, imo. Most people that says "vita has no gaemz" is a vita fan jesting. And 90% of the people that says that without being a vita fan is actually saying "vita has no games [that will sell a lot/systems]". It's FACT that Vita has TONS of quality games, nobody in their right mind would say otherwise... but sales... we can't change them, we won't influence them by being positive, we won't change NPD numbers... they'll happen the way they'll happen, it's Sony's job, not ours. That's why sales can be discussed, even harshly, heatedly...because it's not personal - well, it is lol... but no one is attacking you or your game preferences, just numbers.

And that's why... I don't know... lost myself here. Wii U is doomed stage should come soon, so this difference becomes "peaceful" again.



d21lewis on 31 August 2012
spurgeonryan said:
It is simple and I have the answer for you all, but you will have to listen and not get angry when I say it.

Last week almost every thread was in the 100's and 200's on up to 500's of posts. I swear to god they were! Just go back a few pages.

We have banned and pushed around the people who are posting. When you take out the people that make up your business you have no customers. I am not saying the mods are wrong to do this, I am just saying that ....no matter what you do in life there will be consequences.
Libroex has been hitting it out of the park as of late with Nintendo threads the last few weeks. Where is he?

School started this week for many.

What happened to our posters? Ninpie vanished and that is 100 posts a day, Man bear all but vanished, Basel does not like to be called a spammer and left, APM = non-existent, Kantor, Carl, etc gone. Big users like Millenium and Yo_john fed up and gone, Mordred and Darth gone again.

What happened to RolStoppable? He is back, but is he?

Controversial members have been weeded out or are not on as much, HappyDolphin has a problem with Vgchart addiction and leaves on a weekly basis as well.

Nothing is going on right now.


Pieces of the puzzle that made the site successful are leaving or not posting like they should be and it takes a while to figure it out. All of this happened all at once. So it has hit the site a bit. Hopefully some will come back and start posting like they should. If not we will have to wait for new new members to take their spot. We were on a roll for a while!

But like I said, this could all just be going on for the start of school. For all any of us knows tomorrow it could be booming again. What do I know? I am only here all day long and night.


You know, I have the feeling that you nailed it with this post.  Weekend are notoriously horrible on VGChartz so things won't be booming tomorrow, either.  I'm usually not on during the weekends but I do peek in with my phone and it doesn't look good.  Hopefully we have a good Monday.