Current Events > When was peak GameFAQS?

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I closed my old account but I first joined Gamefaqs in 2005. I'd say Mid 2000s really was peak Gfaqs

2007-2008

04-10ish.

By 2012 this felt like a much different place.

When I created my account.

I don't remember much from aughts CE

-stop whoring your sexuality
-president Madagascar
-the story I made up that got me banned, and then logging into my friend's account and getting him banned
-the sign pic Mox made for me
-popcorn for dinner? again?
-those weird ass DS promos with the forest

CEnco de Mayo

i put early 2000s personally

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'bout fifteen years ago

gamefaqs in general lost its aura after 2008ish (spirit started going downhill with respect to this after the 04 merger), but ce was pretty lit until the early 2010s

turn of the decade was best for me. Gamefaqs was big, I had disposable income, and video game promotions were at the height of absurdity. I had free xbl for years, tons of free games just by duping region recognition, my favorite game of all time was still active, and I had a good team of friends to play any of a variety of games, online or off.

2010-2014

GameFAQs was still a viable medium between platforms and PS2/PS3 gamers still selected guides from the website as a top hit. Now, a lot of the traffic has jumped ship to other forums, or chat websites, and streaming/vblog has taken over for offering players a walkthrough to solve puzzles or reach 100% completion. This has a lot to do with the online interface for consoles/PC evolving, no? I don't think Wikis are nearly even hardly what they were back in the day. Even the entries in the great Wikipedia & many text news articles now come off as sensationalist stubs. Guess people learned to double cross-check their sources, all, plus the clarity of using an instructor in full-motion video took precedent over user-made text guides which can be confusing or erroneous. I think we're living in a new word of mouth era via social media too. Is collective consciousness beginning to outweigh the subconscious?

2005 - 2009.

YouTube and Reddit killed this website. And the absurd rules.

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

And the absurd rules.

with a handful of exceptions, rules were a lot more clear and better defined under ceej's terms.

by simplifying the terms, allen introduced far greater reliance on moderator discretion, which opened the door to a significant increase in arbitrary moderator behavior.

2006 and 2010, which incidentally was when I was in high school.

Once I got into university and stopped coming to this site as often, everything went downhill.

07-11

Smartphone

Before they added the message boards, been downhill ever since

I have no clue. If it werent for the pandemic I wouldve never found this place. I can imagine it being much better and active back in the day. I arrived when they were nailing the nails into the casket.