Damn, someone found out!

Yeah, that was my old account, it got lost when there were lenghty problems with logins 2 years ago.

But this account is just from 2017, so technically I fit the mold

I guess you think OTB is irrelevant then?

I've been on this site before PS3/Wii. I'm not an active poster, but if you want my opinion from outside... since we don't have charts, I enter the site less and less every week. The only reason I see this site it's just because I'm used to it. But without charts I know there will be a day I'll just stop visiting because there's not to much to do for me, besides from reading in 30 seconds the last news.

Flashback from '07 "Don't mind the shirt, it just matches the color of my eyes" (hope I remembered that correctly). Anyone remember what that's from ?? :D

Anyho, yeah I do experience technical problems a lot too and I'm sure that doesn't help. I was wondering though, if digital distribution (and probably the big game companies tomfuckery too) was having an impact on the NPD and this site, which I guess it really is. Do we know what the outcome/fix is going to be for this?

Additionally, to the discussion of the mod/ban concerns (which from my viewpoint has been an ever-present thing here [NOTABLE to THE DISCUSSSION, so I deem the posts here valid, but think it is still a "secondary issue".]) I always wondered why, at the end of the day, Fanboy-ism was banned from the beginning/early days. I agree that it CAN thwart meaningful discussion at times; but that is honestly the reason we all wanted to engage in the first place. {This is why there are the NINTENDO, SONY, and Microsoft discussion Tabs/areas. At the end of the day we really just wanted to bash the "other side" (without a ban) and we used make a big production about who was changing sides and what-not. (I jumped from Nintendo to Xbox and now I went to the Dark Side) It's fun. We have these game opinions and our culture is to type-scream those opinions to others, especially the ones who don't wanna hear it. Ha ha ah.
The point is, I feel the whole mod/user war undercurrent was just a cat and mouse game because we had this rule of argue, but don't REALLY argue, that's not nice, and people wanted to get really clever about breaking the rule in indirect ways. The mods eventually had to come in and start banning people who really were abusive to the rules, and they would just come back later with new names and the beat went on...
It was a lot of fun though...
(thoughts?)

I would have mentioned QuickRick, but he fell of a cliff already...

Also, how could you forget about Marth?

Well we are nearing the end of the current console generation which is typically a slower time, hardware has been maximized, sales are slowing for hardware but software still selling very well. Once the new hardware is released, and it becomes important again weekly sales I think this site will pick up.

I would say some of it has to do with the fact this site has redirecting issues. It also comes up as unsafe with mobile. As I'm typing this there's a red triangle warning logo on the address bar.

Other than that, even though I can't speak much on the number reporting, it doesn't seem to be the issue.

Its funny because back when game sites were political, the forums were full of trolling and bias but it seemed like it served as the glue for the community. I'm not saying I prefer a hostile environment but maybe(?) that has something to do with it?

This. Once we start getting concrete news about next gen, as well as the first few months of sales, traffic should escalate. Right now, there's not much going on. PS4 and Switch are doing great and XBO is just okay. It's been like this for 2 years, now, so not too much to talk about sales-wise.

Jesus fucking Christ. I'm glad I finished drinking my soda before I read this, lol.

Well, this was an unwise post.

Yeah, that's what I've noticed too. I doubt things would be better if we still had the weekly software chartz tho, barely anyone entered the threads made for them when they still were a thing.