Current Events > Wait. CJayC quit because he didnt want to be 40 on Gamefaqs?

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MelbuFrahma4
01/13/23 10:00:15 PM
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https://www.destructoid.com/the-founder-of-gamefaqs-to-step-down-after-twelve-glorious-years-of-faqqing/

Last year, at E3 2006, I got the first big feeling that the world was starting to move on without me. I didnt just feel like I was one of the oldest people there; I was reminded of it constantly. Flashes of No way that kids 18 and This musics too loud and Get off of my lawn flew through my head. In the GameSpot booth, as I still knew and talked with some of the usual crowd, I couldnt help but notice that I was feeling even older. Many of them were years younger than me, and I found I had just had less in common with them than I had in years past. When I got back to the hotel, I looked in the mirror and said to myself, Are you really going to still be doing this when youre 60? Or, much less, when youre 40?

Isnt that getting closer to the average age on Gamefaqs? Lets say he was 18-22 when he created Gamefaqs wouldnt that mean the age during that Goodbye he felt he was too old for this site around 30-34? Feels weird looking at the goodbye message now that Im likely older than he was when he said that stuff.

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LeoRavus
01/13/23 10:01:55 PM
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Yeah message boards are mostly older people. Sounds like an excuse to sell

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SwordMaster13X
01/13/23 10:37:37 PM
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Is cjayc now like 50?

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FigureOfSpeech
01/13/23 10:40:46 PM
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Allen's already 40+

Nothing to be ashamed of. He's older than me and I'm already 40. I don't give a fuck. I don't think he does either lol
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ArchNemo
01/13/23 10:43:26 PM
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I'm curious what he does now

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Zikten
01/13/23 10:45:20 PM
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I'm 41. I have always been older than most people on Gamefaqs. When I first came here I was 20 I think, and talking to mostly Jr high and high school students

But the boards have aged. Kids do not make accounts anymore. Message boards are old fashioned and lame. Kids are on reddit and social media
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k1zzl3_82
01/13/23 10:45:24 PM
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ArchNemo posted...
I'm curious what he does now
posts under his vegy account

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Jiek_Fafn
01/13/23 10:46:03 PM
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He sounds like someone CE would bully

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FigureOfSpeech
01/13/23 10:46:27 PM
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Zikten posted...
I'm 41.

fuck yeah, buddy.
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FAQ-Checker
01/13/23 10:56:10 PM
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MelbuFrahma4 posted...
https://www.destructoid.com/the-founder-of-gamefaqs-to-step-down-after-twelve-glorious-years-of-faqqing/
After what?!?
Oh... faqqing. It said faqqing, guys.
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Lordgold666
01/13/23 11:01:55 PM
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Lol

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The_X_Dawg
01/13/23 11:04:02 PM
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Probably quit because he knew what this place would turn into.

He saw what duckbear was becoming.
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SocialistGamer
01/13/23 11:12:27 PM
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Faqqing >__>

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MelbuFrahma4
01/13/23 11:12:50 PM
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FAQ-Checker posted...
After what?!?
Oh... faqqing. It said faqqing, guys.

Have some respect. The author cried over CJayC leaving.

I thought that my emotions were no longer a working part of me and that my tear ducts and vage had dried up long ago, but apparently there is some humanity left in me after all. Jeff Veasey, or CJayC as he is more commonly known, founder of GameFAQs.com, is finally stepping aside. Its not so much that hes rich as hell and wants to go live his life that makes me sad, but in the goodbye letter he wrote on the site he talks about the industry leaving him behind as he got older and older. I suppose any gamers greatest fear (aside from extreme carpel tunnel) is to one day look at the biggest games out there and think to yourself Meh. Im too afraid to think what would happen if video games stopped being part of who I am. Would I like read, and stuff? Maybe eat properly once in a while?

I dare not to think of such things. So its with a heavy heart that I and countless other gamers bid Jeff farewell, and of course thank him for creating the site that helped me beat the goddamn Cloister of Trials without pulling my own face off and eating it. Hit the jump for his letter in its entirety, and feel free to pay tribute to Jeff by talking about the game(s) GameFAQs has helped you with over the years in the comments. Rest in piece Jeff, wherever you are.

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FL81
01/13/23 11:13:03 PM
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this website isn't even getting any new young people anymore, they're all on the instagrams and tick tock nowadays

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The-Apostle
01/13/23 11:14:11 PM
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I'm 44. I spent half my life on GameFAQs.

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CyricZ
01/13/23 11:14:48 PM
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I would imagine it feels different when it's a place you built yourself.

Anyway, man had to do right by himself. I hope he's doing well.

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Kamil
01/13/23 11:21:14 PM
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I do think it's strange that he created this place and then just vanished completely. It's like folklore at this point. He really existed? haha I am getting tired so I am going to lay down. I wanted to stay up later this night, but I stayed up way too late (again) the night before.

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SocialistGamer
01/13/23 11:22:05 PM
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Kamil posted...
I do think it's strange that he created this place and then just vanished completely. It's like folklore at this point. He really existed? haha I am getting tired so I am going to lay down. I wanted to stay up later this night, but I stayed up way too late (again) the night before.
CJayC is John Titor confirmed.

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Kamil
01/13/23 11:22:49 PM
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SocialistGamer posted...
CJayC is John Titor confirmed.


Good one I get your reference and my "silly" topic.

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tripleh213
01/13/23 11:25:10 PM
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Im turning 34 on Sunday :(

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Melchar
01/13/23 11:35:46 PM
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Faqqing

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CyricZ
01/14/23 6:49:39 AM
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Kamil posted...
then just vanished completely
He didn't though. He posts under another name.

It's just that no one knows what that name is.

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Alucard188
01/14/23 6:52:43 AM
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By all accounts Ceej is doing well. I have no idea what he's doing, but he's doing well enough. I don't know if he keeps tabs on this place, but I have to assume so.

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iGenesis
01/14/23 6:54:28 AM
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CyricZ posted...
He didn't though. He posts under another name.


Source?

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StormSignal
01/14/23 7:00:00 AM
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gaming OGs back in the day were already old and theyre even more decrepit now

old gamers unite

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action52
01/14/23 7:24:07 AM
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CJayC had no idea that the people who use message boards would age along with him. No one did. At the time, social media as we knew it did not exist. YouTube existed but was nowhere near as widely used as it is now. Smartphones did not exist. We were on an internet that was mostly nerds sitting at home on their desktop computers. It was reasonable to think that message boards would keep being popular and demand for maps and text-based FAQs would continue for the forseeable future.

He figured that as young, new users kept coming in he would become more and more out of touch. So he decided it would be better to pass on control of the site to some young blood. I respect that.

Little did he know that in a few years the internet would be turned upside down, to the point where a site like this is largely irrelevant to young people. And now it's mostly just old millenials / young Gen Xers who stay here because it's what they're comfortable with.

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TomClark
01/14/23 8:05:32 AM
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I think Ceej was just playing the long game and planting this as a way to make us all feel old as fuck years later.

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RiKuToTheMiGhtY
01/14/23 8:16:55 AM
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He felt old in his mind, it was his mentality that drove him to leave and possibly him thinking others saw him as old but it really was just him feeling a certain way.

Im 35 and could not care less what others think of my hobbies, if it still brings me joy then I will keep engaging.

Being an adult means not giving a shit what others think and living your life the best you possibly can without many or any regrets.

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DarkRoast
01/14/23 8:17:40 AM
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I'm 37

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NatsuSama
01/14/23 8:47:44 AM
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iGenesis posted...
Source?
I can't back Cyrics claim, but I have no doubt he's still here. But not saying it's a bad thing.

It's easy to have alts here. Being a high profile on this site, I can see why he or anyone would pick up a less conspicuous persona.

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MabusIncarnate
01/14/23 8:49:03 AM
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I'll quit CE for my age when Zikten does

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toreysback
01/14/23 8:54:54 AM
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go on, take the money and run

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Cocytus
01/14/23 9:32:29 AM
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I was never clear on this. Has ANYONE ever seen him in person or a pic?
I know he lives in Texas, or used to. Not trying to stalk him, just curious.

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K181
01/14/23 9:39:00 AM
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40 was old for this site back when he sold it, to be fair.

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Homeless_Waifu
01/14/23 9:42:33 AM
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40 is the new 20!

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megamanfreakXD
01/14/23 9:50:42 AM
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Kamil
01/14/23 1:35:31 PM
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lmao calling his home phone.

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pojr
01/14/23 1:38:08 PM
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IIRC, Allen has been in charge longer than CJayC was. Weird to think about.


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CRON
01/14/23 1:45:44 PM
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I could be pulling this out of my ass but I distinctly remember reading multiple times that CJayC actually got screwed over by CNET and instead of the $2M deal it was actually south of $200K with the implication that he'd transfer to a cushier position at the new parent company.
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toreysback
01/14/23 2:22:24 PM
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megamanfreakXD posted...
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Blue_Target
01/14/23 3:03:57 PM
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Cocytus posted...
I was never clear on this. Has ANYONE ever seen him in person or a pic?
I know he lives in Texas, or used to. Not trying to stalk him, just curious.
I heard a story of a Gamefaqs meet up at maybe a convention where he did show up and when they were gonna do a group photo he requested no.

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action52
01/14/23 3:34:02 PM
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CRON posted...
I could be pulling this out of my ass but I distinctly remember reading multiple times that CJayC actually got screwed over by CNET and instead of the $2M deal it was actually south of $200K with the implication that he'd transfer to a cushier position at the new parent company.
If the position pays well (say 200k+ a year) and he's still working there, I wouldn't say he got screwed over that badly. Especially if it was his own choice.

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Shadowplay
01/14/23 3:35:29 PM
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I think he pretty much did the right thing.

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