Current Events > My account is 20 years old today. CRAZY!

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I almost didn't think about it. 20 years old. Of course, CE was very different back in the day. More active, certainly a lot more "personalities", tons more drama, and things were (thankfully) much less political, and you barely had those stupid warned and banned topics. Just about the only people left from back then are me, CyricZ, and duckbear.

Who posted?

What do you mean?

Who posted?

Who posted?

cyricz came a long way to become leader of the Sanctimonious Sect

n00b

Who posted?

Just about the only people left from back then are me, CyricZ, and duckbear

madrox posts here often, especially about nature, albeit under a different username
omnislasher, another 2000 reg, posts frequently as well

Yeah, Omnislasher is a good point. I've seen him more often recently. Still hates my guts, of course.

Bump.

cocytus also

To be fair, everything was much less political 20 years ago, including actual politics.

Theres also that sun hawk poster, havent seen them post much recently though

I don't know. CE has become a LOT more political in the last 2 or 3 years.

Bump.

Sunhawk posted...

I don't know. CE has become a LOT more political in the last 2 or 3 years.

Watch the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma. It explains why, to your post.

CE was so much fun back in the day. The golden era was 2002 to 2004, IMO.

Sunhawk posted...

CE was so much fun back in the day. The golden era was 2002 to 2004, IMO.

Tc is OLD

sailor bacon 2015 blog comment:

"The greatest growth in the gaming media sector over the past 5 years has been in the area of streaming videos/commentary by gamers. How do you feel about this? Does GameFAQs have any future plans or interest in getting involved in that area?" - The Admiral

If theres one thing weve learned in the past few years, its that GameFAQs and video just dont go together as well as they should. We tried video walkthroughs and they didnt take off. We allow YouTube links to video that we get plenty of submissions for but that dont really drive much interest in our users. Streaming is so outside of our niche in the market that adding it wouldnt even make sense. So many sites do this already and do an amazing job that trying to compete would be silly. We could look into partnerships with other sites and try a focus on teaching/walkthroughs of games, but thats probably the best case scenario there.

big missed opportunity imo
gamefaqs was big enough at the time that they could have given review copies of big upcoming titles to the most popular user reviewers and made video reviews on youtube and later twitch to drive a lot of eyes to da site
video playthroughs, if only of portions of game, whether new, classic, or notorious, not with the aim of guiding, but praising faqs on da site
should have had a pod as well highlighting the best user contributions of the week or month and just enough gaming news to capture some more general listeners
work form home bacon would have had to live close enough to the office that he could record these things with one or two other people, maybe a paid community manager and video editor. i'm sure he would have been a fun personality, i mean, he dressed like sailor moon one time

they can still do all these things, and with modern teleconferencing tech it'd be trivial to include faq creators, reviewers, etc., in playthrough videos, again, even if just for minute long clips on tiktok or something. it wouldn't revive the once thriving niche message boards with themes like alternative music, cable television, digimon dating, or gamefaqs world: wyoming, but it would drive a lot of new ppl to da site