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twitterfriends
01/25/18 3:59:35 PM
#51:


I don't know why this bothers me so much
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Romulox28
01/25/18 4:00:06 PM
#52:


So now when I meet a new girl at the bar, instead of saying "yeah, I post on GameFAQs" I'll have to say "yeah, I post on GameFAQs.Gamespot.com"?
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_Goggalor_
01/25/18 4:01:56 PM
#53:


Lame. Always hated GS.
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Burnt_Puke82
01/25/18 4:02:17 PM
#54:


gnomefromnome posted...
leverageblargh posted...
rofl he's actually responding to classic mandoposting

You have surpassed me armando

Even I couldn't get him to seriously respond to blarghposting

Maybe if you made sense...what was that supposed to mean

I thought it made sense. <_<
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smoliske
01/25/18 4:04:08 PM
#56:


@SBAllen posted...
Fight what? Because of this deal, I get to give out significantly more money to contributors and via site contests than before at the cost of a slightly longer URL. We did discuss alternative ways to get both sites on a single domain (including putting GS on our domain) but we chose the best one in terms of optimizing revenue gain.


I wondered that. but if you're subdomaining anyway may as well just have made it

gamefaqs.cbsinteractive.com

and

gamespot.cbsinteractive.com

Idk I understand the reasoning behind the ad networks but it just seems silly having both brands in the same url whereas the gamespot community won't see anything
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s0nicfan
01/25/18 4:04:22 PM
#57:


twitterfriends posted...
I don't know why this bothers me so much


It feels lazy and/or defeatist. The site's been around for like 18 years and it's managed to hang on with its own name. Suddenly it has to become a subdomain because reasons like some Angelfire site a kid made in high school?

I understand needing to pay the bills, but maybe find something more creative than selling t-shirts and it wouldn't be in a position where it has to give up its identity entirely. This will only weaken the site's ability to grow in the long term because the site itself will have less value as a brand.
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armandro
01/25/18 4:06:10 PM
#58:


gmJIlW7
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GODTIER
01/25/18 4:07:12 PM
#59:


s0nicfan posted...
twitterfriends posted...
I don't know why this bothers me so much


It feels lazy and/or defeatist. The site's been around for like 18 years and it's managed to hang on with its own name. Suddenly it has to become a subdomain because reasons like some Angelfire site a kid made in high school?

I understand needing to pay the bills, but maybe find something more creative than selling t-shirts and it wouldn't be in a position where it has to give up its identity entirely. This will only weaken the site's ability to grow in the long term because the site itself will have less value as a brand.


Who the fuck would buy a gamefaqs t shirt
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smoliske
01/25/18 4:08:26 PM
#60:


GODTIER posted...
s0nicfan posted...
twitterfriends posted...
I don't know why this bothers me so much


It feels lazy and/or defeatist. The site's been around for like 18 years and it's managed to hang on with its own name. Suddenly it has to become a subdomain because reasons like some Angelfire site a kid made in high school?

I understand needing to pay the bills, but maybe find something more creative than selling t-shirts and it wouldn't be in a position where it has to give up its identity entirely. This will only weaken the site's ability to grow in the long term because the site itself will have less value as a brand.


Who the fuck would buy a gamefaqs t shirt


@RaptorLC bought like 30 to get to the top of highest karma users
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armandro
01/25/18 4:09:10 PM
#61:


GODTIER posted...
s0nicfan posted...
twitterfriends posted...
I don't know why this bothers me so much


It feels lazy and/or defeatist. The site's been around for like 18 years and it's managed to hang on with its own name. Suddenly it has to become a subdomain because reasons like some Angelfire site a kid made in high school?

I understand needing to pay the bills, but maybe find something more creative than selling t-shirts and it wouldn't be in a position where it has to give up its identity entirely. This will only weaken the site's ability to grow in the long term because the site itself will have less value as a brand.


Who the fuck would buy a gamefaqs t shirt

IDK because you love this website?
Don't you come here everyday?

t-shirts are lame imo
would buy a hoodie

or maybe you could make people pay for username changes
10 dollars or something
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Burnt_Puke82
01/25/18 4:16:59 PM
#62:


smoliske posted...
@RaptorLC bought like 30 to get to the top of highest karma users

He can correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember Gavi saying he paid for the shirts so Raptor would get the karma boost.

Also, it was 10 shirts, not 30. You could buy up to 10 and get 100 karma per shirt iirc
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GODTIER
01/25/18 4:17:41 PM
#63:



IDK because you love this website?
Don't you come here everyday?

t-shirts are lame imo
would buy a hoodie

or maybe you could make people pay for username changes
10 dollars or something


My gamefaqs activity will forever remain a secret to my peers >_>
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anth0ny
01/25/18 4:20:51 PM
#64:


Romulox28 posted...
So now when I meet a new girl at the bar, instead of saying "yeah, I post on GameFAQs" I'll have to say "yeah, I post on GameFAQs.Gamespot.com"?

holy mother of FUCK, you are RIGHT

how am I supposed to brag about posting on gamefaqs.gamespot.com when i'm spittin' dat' game ?!

it can't be done. now allllll my game is ruined
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armandro
01/25/18 4:20:53 PM
#65:


I'm not ashamed!!

at least not yet
I don't think i can handle .gamespot.com
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YMIHere
01/25/18 6:55:37 PM
#67:


gnomefromnome posted...
YMIHere posted...
SBAllen posted...
armandro posted...
wow so this is just all about the money

Not entirely, but yes obviously if we can make more money it's silly not to. We're a business, not a charity. If we don't produce money, there's no reason for CBSi to keep the site alive.


How extensive are the redirects going to be? I'm assuming you guys aren't giving up the gameFAQs domain for any random person to grab, but will something like www.gamefaqs.com/boards/400-current-events/ transfer automatically to new gamespot domain in the correct place?

Yes, that was stated in the Announcement.


Ahh, thanks. I see where I missed it now.
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Foppe
01/26/18 1:06:38 AM
#68:


It begins!
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SomeLikeItHoth
01/26/18 1:18:58 AM
#69:


I don't think this change will last. I think more of the userbase will feel alienated and leave. Seems like every major update causes more and more users to leave. People who don't frequent the boards often will get redirected to the gamespot URL and think they're on a different website and leave and find another website like reddit.
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teepan95
01/26/18 1:30:26 AM
#70:


SBAllen posted...
Not really a loss. GameFAQs is the larger site with the larger traffic, but GameSpot is the more marketable site because it's not UGC-based like we are. People who view UGC aren't as inclined to click on an ad as someone browsing news. Thus, while our site is bigger, our brand/domain is less valuable to advertisers. It's a shame, but it's the reality of internet advertising.

What does UGC-based mean? <_<
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Eevee-Trainer
01/26/18 1:33:13 AM
#71:


teepan95 posted...
SBAllen posted...
Not really a loss. GameFAQs is the larger site with the larger traffic, but GameSpot is the more marketable site because it's not UGC-based like we are. People who view UGC aren't as inclined to click on an ad as someone browsing news. Thus, while our site is bigger, our brand/domain is less valuable to advertisers. It's a shame, but it's the reality of internet advertising.

What does UGC-based mean? <_<

User-generated content.

He's primarily referring to the site's FAQs, reviews, cheats, etc.
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anth0ny
01/26/18 1:35:56 AM
#72:


Eevee-Trainer posted...
teepan95 posted...
@SBAllen posted...
Not really a loss. GameFAQs is the larger site with the larger traffic, but GameSpot is the more marketable site because it's not UGC-based like we are. People who view UGC aren't as inclined to click on an ad as someone browsing news. Thus, while our site is bigger, our brand/domain is less valuable to advertisers. It's a shame, but it's the reality of internet advertising.

What does UGC-based mean? <_<

User-generated content.

He's primarily referring to the site's shitposting content

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armandro
01/26/18 12:06:22 PM
#73:


10 days left
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josifrees
01/26/18 12:09:45 PM
#74:


Eevee-Trainer posted...
teepan95 posted...
SBAllen posted...
Not really a loss. GameFAQs is the larger site with the larger traffic, but GameSpot is the more marketable site because it's not UGC-based like we are. People who view UGC aren't as inclined to click on an ad as someone browsing news. Thus, while our site is bigger, our brand/domain is less valuable to advertisers. It's a shame, but it's the reality of internet advertising.

What does UGC-based mean? <_<

User-generated content.

He's primarily referring to the site's FAQs, reviews, cheats, etc.


Hold on, so having user based content is a bad thing to advertisers? Lmao fucking advertising
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Eevee-Trainer
01/26/18 2:11:27 PM
#75:


josifrees posted...
Eevee-Trainer posted...
teepan95 posted...
SBAllen posted...
Not really a loss. GameFAQs is the larger site with the larger traffic, but GameSpot is the more marketable site because it's not UGC-based like we are. People who view UGC aren't as inclined to click on an ad as someone browsing news. Thus, while our site is bigger, our brand/domain is less valuable to advertisers. It's a shame, but it's the reality of internet advertising.

What does UGC-based mean? <_<

User-generated content.

He's primarily referring to the site's FAQs, reviews, cheats, etc.


Hold on, so having user based content is a bad thing to advertisers? Lmao fucking advertising

Part also might be that ads usually aren't on those pages. I think. I keep my adblocker on so ... *shrug*
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armandro
01/27/18 12:08:20 PM
#76:


9 days left
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Tom Clark
01/27/18 12:11:54 PM
#77:


HBOSS posted...
Feb 5?! Thats my 18th anniversary on this board


Haha me too.
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armandro
01/28/18 1:48:36 PM
#78:


8 days left
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armandro
01/29/18 1:15:54 PM
#79:


7 days
rip gamefaqs.com
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SomeLikeItHoth
01/29/18 3:06:08 PM
#80:


Once the new URL takes over this place is as good as dead.
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DocileOrangeCup
01/29/18 3:07:39 PM
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armandro
01/29/18 3:16:04 PM
#82:


DocileOrangeCup posted...
TC sends weird 3 year delayed Pms

You're the one that sent me a PM 3 years later!!!
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bob742omb
01/29/18 9:16:25 PM
#83:


Toys "" Us is a russian conspiracy
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Foppe
01/30/18 6:41:13 AM
#84:


Aaaaand nobody really cares in the end.
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armandro
01/30/18 1:27:15 PM
#85:


Foppe posted...
Aaaaand nobody really cares in the end.

I care
6 more days left on gamefaqs.com

im going to miss you guys
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s0nicfan
01/30/18 1:52:59 PM
#86:


can't wait for gamefaqs.gamespot.angelfire.com/boards/400-current-events

>.>
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gnomefromnome
01/30/18 4:12:15 PM
#88:


OcbcKo6D47PHy
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armandro
01/31/18 10:11:42 PM
#89:


5 more days
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Foppe
02/01/18 1:56:34 PM
#90:


It begins!
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armandro
02/01/18 11:59:18 PM
#91:


4 more days
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smoliske
02/02/18 1:12:28 PM
#92:


$ dig http://gamefaqs.gamespot.com

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> http://gamefaqs.gamespot.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 43972
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;http://gamefaqs.gamespot.com. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
gamespot.com. 60 IN SOA ns-1019.awsdns-63.net. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400

;; Query time: 13 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.0.2#53(10.0.0.2)
;; WHEN: Fri Feb 02 06:01:26 UTC 2018
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 139


it has begun
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HBOSS
02/02/18 1:40:26 PM
#93:


smoliske posted...
$ dig http://gamefaqs.gamespot.com

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> http://gamefaqs.gamespot.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 43972
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;http://gamefaqs.gamespot.com. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
gamespot.com. 60 IN SOA ns-1019.awsdns-63.net. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400

;; Query time: 13 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.0.2#53(10.0.0.2)
;; WHEN: Fri Feb 02 06:01:26 UTC 2018
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 139


it has begun

what sorcery is this
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armandro
02/03/18 3:27:42 PM
#94:


2 more days?
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Foppe
02/03/18 3:31:30 PM
#95:


Soon
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Choco
02/04/18 11:41:18 AM
#96:


we still have today and tomorrow left
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Foppe
02/04/18 11:47:11 AM
#97:


In the darkest times, the true believer hones his combat skills.
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armandro
02/04/18 4:49:36 PM
#98:


you guys think gamefaqs.com will come back?
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Parappa09
02/04/18 4:53:28 PM
#99:


rip gamefaqs

ill look back at this one day to remember when we first became gamespot
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armandro
02/04/18 7:54:43 PM
#101:


leverageblargh posted...
I'm not seeing any difference

Explain yourself mando

what do you mean lev?

you have to wait!
its not feb 6th yet
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