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Websites exist to do nothing but show ads

What ads?

I imagine acquiring GameFAQs was part of the GameSpot deal, but they don't actually want to pay to manage it so they're trying to drive enough people away to justify pulling the plug.

People keep saying this, but I don't see why they'd bother to do all this chicanery. If they wanted to pull the plug, they'd just do it.

Alriiiiiiight, we get it.

That's late stage capitalism.

People keep saying this, but I don't see why they'd bother to do all this chicanery. If they wanted to pull the plug, they'd just do it.

People keep saying this, but I don't see why they'd bother to do all this chicanery. If they wanted to pull the plug, they'd just do it.

I mean, if we're sold off all these boards can be reopened right? I think we want to be sold off at this point.

Do you know about LUE? Cuz, uh...it will never be reopened lol. This type of shit is a death sentence.

LUE was canned due to an active real life incident involving a death and closed by CJayC who gave people sign-ups. All these recent closures are due to a Fandom policy that is void if we left Fandom.

Ah, yes, cuz corporate overlords are known to just give up and go away.

They'll make like... 12 dollars and then close the site or sell it off.

This is your modern Internet. Websites exist to do nothing but show ads and take people's money. If they aren't succeeding at either of those, they have no value. The greedy companies shitting up the Internet are determined to destroy any inch of the thing that isn't making them lots of money.

They dont allow you to post gross stuff about women or give nazi dog whistles anymore.

Please go outside and see more than CE.

They dont allow you to post gross stuff about women or give nazi dog whistles anymore.

Please go outside and see more than CE.

I mean, this isnt a fan site. Its always been owned by large corporations. It literally sold for millions of dollars back in the day.

GameFaqs was in a great position to turn a massive profit during the era of smart phone mass adoption and the rise of mobile gaming circa 2010-2015 but for whatever reason the website just never modernized itself and released a mobile app with social media integration for logins and reshares and stuff.

At that point it seemed as if CBS Interactive was satisfied with just breaking even on ads & cross traffic. But by the time of the first sale to Red Ventures the site was probably no longer breaking even.

If thats the case then Red Ventures would have to make the decision to either take a loss by putting in money to modernize the platform and eventually get their investment back once it finally turned a profitor sell it off.

We know what they chose. Now Fandom is in a similar position and seem like they are going to try and rebuild the platform into profitability.

But that doesnt make them evil. This had NEVER been an independently operated fan site. Its just felt that way for the last 8 years or so due to the decline in traffic and lack of updates. But its not.

I dont get how so many people are painting them as the villains for trying to monetize their investment as opposed to just letting it slowly wither away and die.

It doesnt make any logical sense.

The Internet is fucking bullshit these days and companies like Fandom are a great example why.

Feedback? Communities? Anything decent? Companies have realized that they don't need any of that to make money on the Internet. So they fucking ruin everything because what is humanity gonna do? Give up the Internet?

1. Put in money to modernize it and attract a younger, more viper audience
2. Sell it off to a different corporation
3. Just let it wither away and die on its own, even if its bleeding money
4. Just let it be so long as its making a profit or breaking even, and then shut it down or sell it off as soon as it starts to bleed money
5. Shut it down because its bleeding money

Imagine believing this. Are you on the payroll?

I mentioned this in the discord earlier, but I think they don't understand that the boards help support the guides. How many people are coming to this site exclusively to write guides? You already don't get a ton of new ones written for new games. Baldur's Gate 3 was massively popular and it has one walkthrough, a guide for each class all written by the same person, and one more druid guide.

Most people who want to do that kind of work aren't going to come to GameFAQs, write the guide, and then leave. They're going to make a video and post it on Youtube. Killing the boards cannibalizes the point of the site.

How much money would it take to buy GameFAQs? Kinda sad a rich game developer that grew up here didn't just buy the site and server hosting for the next 100+ years so it could be free for all.

If I made a game like Cuphead or Minecraft that became a huge hit and made me a multi millionaire I would have bought Gamefaqs CE and made it available and free because I like the site.

but option three is a surefire way for someone to lose their livelihood because its just professional negligence.

At least a million bucks

wont someone think of the shareholders!

I know of a niche game's wiki leaving fandom bc fandom is just that bad.

How much money would it take to buy GameFAQs? Kinda sad a rich game developer that grew up here didn't just buy the site and server hosting for the next 100+ years so it could be free for all.

If I made a game like Cuphead or Minecraft that became a huge hit and made me a multi millionaire I would have bought Gamefaqs CE and made it available and free because I like the site.

I know of a niche game's wiki leaving fandom bc fandom is just that bad.