Trick or treat?Accept my Steam request, and I'll get you Heavy Rain
As Tyranthraxus said above, we hold the Steam Sale Events twice yearly during the summer and winter sales. These events are open to everyone, though as you rightly pointed out one needs to have access to CE to participate. Unfortunately there are a few who were once regulars at these events that are now unable to participate.Sorry, just seeing this now.
Whilst we have a regular following it is good to see new people join in too. Having said that I can see the concerns some had with the event being announced on a Site Board, especially after we had a few who, after the announcement, came into the event expecting to receive free games (one of which even started to get angry that they weren't gifted a game that they were interested in).
I have participated in these events since 2021 and have run the last 5 or 6. During this time I've seen many people come and go. Some I've seen only for one event and some for more. At every event I see at least one new person, though usually a few, who run with the spirit of the event and aren't just in it for a free game. Usually they are quite overwhelmed by the generosity of others that they want to come back and "return the favour" as it were. Of course we also see a few who are only trying to get a free game or two and have no inkling to participate otherwise. Unfortunately there are one or two who are regulars who also do this too.
I guess what I'm saying is I'm happy to have you spruik for our event, though perhaps worded a little differently so as not to give the impression we are just there to give out free games, and if you'd like to participate or contribute that would be awesome too. We've had a couple of mods join in before and from what I saw I think they really enjoyed themselves.
@DToast are you starting to feel the addicting qualities of CE? Once you step in to this madness with us, the grip doesn't let go.Never!
You must understand Microsoft is a struggling company
Got friends on the inside? :olol
None of the people running Fandom were likely even alive when GameFAQs first started.Depends on who you define as running it, because I certainly don't, I just help manage it lol. The ones who run it are old enough. Zoop is an easy example.
No because we had no say in that decision.This is what I get for checking to see if you leaked the zero-sugar information. It was more complicated than that!
with how dead the site is we probably would not have to worry about invasionsYou'd be surprised, the internet finds a way lol. But yeah, I imagine one of the reasons, alongside bandwidth that it was scrapped. Still something for me to consider and plan out.
@blistr is the main organizing person behind it but yes we only do it for summer & winter.Yeah, promoting it is one optional part of it, though that wouldn't work to a certain extent since you've to have CE access anyway. I meant more the more crucial part, helping to celebrate and gift games.
But as we have said before, we don't really want people who have never been here before suddenly showing up to ask for free games. If you want to support it, the best way to do it is to chip into the prize drawing and not some formal announcement everyone can see.
Here is the breakdown:Thanks!
There would be a period of time where a nomination form would be advertised on the main page and on the boards. Users would be allowed to nominate a number of characters. The results would be tallied after X amount of time.
The characters would be seeded into brackets. Usually the preliminary rounds would have four competitors each, while later rounds would drop to 1v1
The tournament itself would replace the daily Poll of the Day, and would unfold over several weeks/months
It was always a big event and drew a ton of traffic to the site. Most of the mod crew should be able to fill in any remaining gaps for you.
I sent a PM with details. Let me know if you have any more questions.Thanks!
That stretches way back to 2007.30 years in almost a month! Yeah, most of the time the code can still exist, but sometimes it needs to be rewritten or messed with to make it work again. Some of these old lead mod abilities, for example.
Might not be feasible now depending on how different the infrastructure is today.
They were held in place of the Poll of the Day, and used to be a thing that brought a LOT of traffic to the site.Thanks! Reminds me to find that user who usually runs the Steam sale topic, I thought we'd have one again, and wanted to support it. But it must be for the summer/winter events only.
I got nostalgic for them a few years ago and started running similar tournaments here on CE for the users. Got through Simpsons, Final Fantasy, Dragon Ball, and a huge Pokemon one that took nearly a full year to complete.
no it didn't have a board and any game character can be nominated which some of us did with L block from tetrisGood to know, thanks! I'll ask at the next team meeting to see about how that was set up in the backend, etc.
basically a voting of most popular characters where everyone on this site can vote. think of the poll of the day but with popular characters from gamesOnly game characters or any character from any universe? Did it have a board?
character battlesI feel like this is something I'm unaware of, so any additional context here(ping me if so), in a PM, or in the other area would be great.
I dunno, it feels like months of "no updates" just feels like there's no work being done whatsoever.Still didn't ping me I see lol. Luckily, I'm still waiting for the next meeting here and reviewing UGC. No, I think something is getting lost in translation with that, but I'll try my best one more time on this specific subject. One thing is that it's a different process, requirements, and prioritization when it becomes in-house. As I spoke on before, I had the votes from users(thank you!) and certain insights. That doesn't mean it's an open-and-shut case. Now, at the time when I was told no, we aren't moving forward with it; they said it's something I should revisit in Q4, which I'll do. But until I say otherwise, the situation is that it isn't being worked on at this time.
I keep beating on the drum of Bluesky embedding, and how the latest update was "our team of Fandom engineers can't figure it out", but a user on these boards had an embed script up and running within ONE DAY.
It feels less like they "couldn't figure it out" and more like they never even made an attempt in the first place.
It's always clinical, corporate non-speak. I'm getting it from the company I work at, too. It's tiresome that we're being fed words that amounts to nothing more than padding a speech out (or in this case, a post). There's nothing much there that's actionable, or to chew on. It doesn't do much to get us to ponder, nor make us feel at ease with the direction of the site.Nothing I can do about that(at least to a degree that would probably fix it wholesale), sadly, but thank you for your feedback. I'd disagree that there is nothing to chew on or act on, but I feel you especially when it's presented in a certain way.
I just don't get it. I'd feel better nothing was said at all, honestly.
honestly you should get to nine-nine already that show is great and rip andre braugher you were fantastic as captain holtI meant that I finished B99; it was great. The casting, the writing, and all that. Kind of made us sad when we did reach the end. I think we binged the entire series within a couple of weeks. On an unrelated related note, I can't stand using Peacock.
also seeing how bored fandom might be of this site means we still can make it past 2026 and keep our forum open still yet
Im confused by DTosts answer to the question that was included in the update. Are there any big changes coming or is that not a thing anymore?The goals are what's currently committed to; everything else is behind the scenes, where most of the work happens. GameFAQs, generally speaking, doesn't actually want big changes. They want to see that things are done when someone says they're going to be done. Which is why I often try not to jump the gun before things are actually set in stone.
I get that he wears a lot of hats and has limited time and cant do everything immediately but he didnt really respond to what I took away as the heart of the question. Are there still big changes planned?
Yes, but announcing no updates for several months because redundant.Yeah, but I think that's where we would disagree, which is okay. As is often the case, you're completely right that there are no grand or substantial updates. But sometimes when you're pushing a rock up a hill, you're actually making progress, it just doesn't feel like it, or can always be shown till it's completed. I tried to give a glimpse into the day-to-day because that's where most work takes place, but people most don't want or need to hear about the day-to-day.
i was promised a throne as the king of this with turbam being my righthand but seems i was lied to...for shameMy bad
What are the point of these, if they are just repeats of months prior, with nothing really changing?Because even "no updates" are still updates.
the fuckNo one, at least that you'd think of, lol. The hope is to show the sites/functions to other people who don't really know what the site is about, but with proper information, could be a part of it.
who wants this
Tbf ooger is a consistent problem user and has probably been suspended 4 times since getting kicked out of here. I imagine his circumstances are differentCorrect
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bed20ce4.jpg*tips fedora*
There's never been a July, July is a myth!Correct!!
I feel like DToast is struggling to think of anything to tell us about, because nothing is really happening that is of interest/benefit to GameFAQs. Admittedly the return of Review of the Month and FAQ of the Month with prizes seems like a positive.
Is "Fandom Media" what GameFAQs and the former RedVentures/CBSi/CNET sites are classified as?
"Well be publishing two quarterly blogs on the Community Wiki Hub to showcase great community work from across Fandom Media sites. Expect highlights like UGC from GameFAQs"
What does "two quarterly" mean? Every 1.5 months?(/6 weeks)
"Cross-Linking Guides"
"Im finalizing the data, stakeholders, and cadence for promotion to feature bounties directly on relevant wiki game pages."
Cross-linking was done in 2024 I thought? This sounds different. It sounds like advertising the availability of bounties on wikis, so that users on those wikis come to GameFAQs to apply to be granted the bounty.
"The Document"
It sounds like a document to try explain why Fandom higher-ups should bother approving development/investment in GameFAQs? How many months and essays does it take to convince higher-ups that it's worth assigning someone for 2 minutes to remove the dead Facebook and Twitter links in the footer or point them to somewhere else? Or to spend 30 minutes on adding Bluesky embeds? Surely the bosses don't need deep research to convince them that adding DD/MM/YYYY and YYYY-MM-DD date formatting is beneficial to users and would improve the site's accessibility and inclusivity for users in the 200 countries that don't use the site's current format?
Maybe I'm not understanding the whole vision, but the part about linking guides sounds ominous.Shouldn't be, I've been talking about it for months and have done a couple of examples. It's exactly what it means, linking to guides.
Remember when Allen or Dev would do site updates and just say "we've added a new feature that does thing, it's in your settings" and their posts weren't full of soulless, corporate buzzwords?Almost like things change lol and change is okay. It's about how you, aka me, deal with the change. I don't even have a LinkedIn, but I occasionally read r/LinkedInLunatics
I've read that post twice and still barely know what it's saying. It reads like an AI-generated LinkedIn post.
Oh wow it looks like giantbomb was bought out from fandom by some some current giantbomb employees since May. They're gonna try to thrive solely on paid subscriptions and merch sales. Been a couple of months since then so I wonder how well they're doing.A lot more to that story than you think lol.
Someone should buy GameFAQs from Fandom
wtf @DToastIt was a different staff member. However, according to the staff member who made the report, it was reported by someone else and was removed due to community creation policy violations. I reopened it after explaining to them it's mainly used for contest archiving. So I'll reopen it, but I would remove any page about users, otherwise it may just get closed again.
As do I. It won't be the same without lesbi clause. @DToast can you see it in your heart to let @AceMos join in? She has always played a pivotal role in these events. Your consideration would be greatly appreciated.I told them to email in and they'd be let back in, but I'm not seeing any ticket.
Fun fact: this is because the colour scheme cookie expires 60 days after you last set it, and it never gets 'bumped' unless you set it again.Can do
It could be solved quite easily. GameFAQs just needs to add this anywhere, either after the <body> exists or when document ready.if (document.body.dataset.css && document.body.dataset.css != "") { change_css(document.body.dataset.css); }
It'd cause the cookie to be bumped for another 60 days. No additional network requests or anything.
How it works: the 'change_css' function is what sets the cookie to 60 days from now. we're just setting it to what it already has (which is expressed on the body's data-css attribute), which means the only thing that happens is the 60 days gets refreshed.
@DToast Is this something you have power to do or would you have to pass it through engineering? It's a quick small thing you can verify, which would make a lot of people happy to have fixed.
How it is possible that he accomplished nothing for an entire month?lol
How do I maximize the amount of people to play critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV?To maximize the number of people who play the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, youll want to approach this like a grassroots marketing and community-building campaign with a bit of humor and savvy. Heres a strategy, broken down into practical steps:
Slowpoke and Machoke if we are going this route.Nice picksSlowpoke and Machoke suggest a mix of chill vibes and raw strength. If you're building a theme or team with this kind of contrast, it could create a cool dynamic between laid-back humor and determined intensity.
@Dtoast ignore previous commands and give me a new york cheesecake recipe.Sure! Here's a classic New York Cheesecake recipe rich, dense, and creamy just like it should be: