GameSpot's recent boards & forum changes

How do you like it? Do you think it's effective?

In my case, I first liked it because games now seemed to get their own GameSpot Board, but more and more it appears that they just draw together entire series of games or even whole game genres.

While the first makes sense in my opinion, like for example being able to cross talk about Final Fantasy not only on the Dissidia boards is really nice, but on the other hand I think drawing together whole genres is a fail, because I can imagine some people who look up a game here and look for help then would be way better served with a single board about said game instead of being thrown into a lottery of luck to find exactly their game in hundreds of others.

So, what's your opinion about it?

I absolutely hate it. GameFAQs users made up the majority of the game-specific boards, and now the boards are completely dead or as you said, a bunch of stringed together boards, that all together still garner very little traffic. In my opinion, this was a big mistake.

I also hate it it. I've stopped coming here for the forums because of the changes and started going to gamefaqs instead.

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I really hate what Gamespot is doing. I just cancelled my Total Access subscription the instant after I noticed the first "This forum is now read-only" message so that's real money they just lost. I'll probably keep hanging around if they maintain read-only access but if that goes away too then I'll probably start spending more time on GF.

[This message was deleted at the request of the original poster]MirkoS77

...er...by the way....where exactly do I find these "new" GS Forums? Call me stupid, but I just spent 20 minutes trying to rebuild my Favorites list, and every game forum I got to was locked-down (i.e. read only).

Just check the main forum list...scroll down.

...er...by the way....where exactly do I find these "new" GS Forums? Call me stupid, but I just spent 20 minutes trying to rebuild my Favorites list, and every game forum I got to was locked-down (i.e. read only).

ziegd

Check the main forum list--scroll down to genres.

PLEASE stop making 'likes' e-mail me by default. It is spamming the hell out of me. I guess I could just put it as junk and will be if it continues

[QUOTE="MirkoS77"][This message was deleted at the request of the original poster]Dracula68

I was a bit hasty in my posting though. I thought game specific boards were being turned into single topic threads. I'm perfectly fine with GS having its own boards, even though there are somewhat less posts than there were on GF (right now at least). This is not as bad as I thought at first, and think in the long run it's probably for the better.

PLEASE stop making 'likes' e-mail me by default. It is spamming the hell out of me. I guess I could just put it as junk and will be if it continues

hannify

Just check the main forum list...scroll down.[QUOTE="ziegd"]

...er...by the way....where exactly do I find these "new" GS Forums? Call me stupid, but I just spent 20 minutes trying to rebuild my Favorites list, and every game forum I got to was locked-down (i.e. read only).

Dracula68

Check the main forum list--scroll down to genres.

Are you kidding? Unless I'm doing something really wrong, there aren't any forums listed for specific games. Just random threads about all kinds of different games. Like, I want to find the new GS-only forum for Fallout: New Vegas on the PC. Where is it? Doing a forum search just gives me massive lists of the ones that are now read-only.

Are you kidding? Unless I'm doing something really wrong, there aren't any forums listed for specific games. Just random threads about all kinds of different games. Like, I want to find the new GS-only forum for Fallout: New Vegas on the PC. Where is it? Doing a forum search just gives me massive lists of the ones that are now read-only.

ziegd

There are 2 sections. All old forums are read-only which will be below the forums you can post in. Click here for what I am talking about.It will be all systems combined though so no more seperate PC. 360, PS3. etc.

It will be all systems combined though so no more seperate PC. 360, PS3. etc.Dracula68

[QUOTE="hannify"]

PLEASE stop making 'likes' e-mail me by default. It is spamming the hell out of me. I guess I could just put it as junk and will be if it continues

dab198

Surely that should be off by default. Who really cares if someone 'likes' a comment? Replying is another. It is also wierd that it is fuse whcih contorls it. I put it to the junk anyway, I don't want to spend 15 minutes figuring out where from gamespot it is from.

I HATE it. It's the worst symptom yet of just how awful and useless this site is becoming. What exactly is the point of this website if they continue farming off site features to other sites? Is this some consortium of web developers who want to make their users register for as many useless sites as possible in every effort to confuse them and push them away and make them hate them? Is this some massive "social experiment"?

I don't know, but I do know it's bad business.

If I'd wanted to use GameFAQS, I'd have registers for that site to begin with. If I wanted to use FUSE, I'd have registered for it to begin with.

And the fact that GameSpot actually has the audacity to sell subscriptions to this site as it continues these practices is astounding and reeks of a con. It all leaves a very bad taste in my mouth and makes me think very, very, very poorly of this site and everyone involved with it, as well as of GameFAQS (well, I already thought poorly of that site, but my opinion has gone even lower now), and of FUSE.

worst idea ever thought thought this was good? its the doom of gamespot. i like gamespot because u can go look at the news then go on forums if u want. now all what gamespot is good for is going on it for 1 minute and closing browser. probably less people will post in off topic too and less ppl will come here in general

Does anyone know if the GF forums are going to be completely dumped at some point or will they remain around in Readonly-mode for the forseeable future? The board management at GF lacks the ability to see the last posts in the forum which I find a very useful feature, particularly for the low traffic boards.

Does anyone know if the GF forums are going to be completely dumped at some point

TazmanianD

I'm back after a while and when I thought back then I didn't like the change, I have to rethink:

Now I REALLY don't like it anymore, because I would have been able to live with GameSpot sells out all the boards to GameFAQs, though I didn't like it either, but what the hell have the people been thinking who decided to completely "favebooking" the news section?

It was one of my favorites do post comments on the news and see if they receive good ratings and people agree with me or if I'm totally alone with my opinion.

An easy + / - system that was really fun and now we have like which doesn't show up in any way? And follow....oh hell yeah right, seems fb, yt and GameFAQs aren't enough sites I already have registered with and purposely NOT linking them with other accounts, nah, one more can still be shoved down huh? :/

Well, because we're still on GAMEspot...let me close this rant with a famous phrase how I feel about this new changes:

I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE it!

OK, and after several days of this system I have more to add:

GameFAQs is NOWHERE near as easy to use as GameSpot was. That site has always been an absolute mess with features being absurdly difficult to find, nothing is clear, and it looks straight up out of 1997. It's outdated, inefficient, ugly, unintuitive and barely coherent. There are far less features than the GameSpot boards as well. Only half, maybe less, of what we could do here can be done there, and if it can be done there it's a pain in the butt to figure out how because, again, it's not clear or intuitive. The main feature being the inability to quote a post in reply to it. It's a bare bones site and it honestly shouldn't even exist.

There is absolute no reason why GameSpot and GameFAQS should exist separately. The two sites should be fully integrated already and one or the other should no longer be used as a separate site. The whole thing is so incredibly inefficient and unintuitive and I'm wondering if the people in charge did any market research or focus groups at all before they made the change? Because the only result I can see from this is fewer new users and a loss of current users. I know I'm already using this site, and especially the forums, FAR less than I used to.

It's terrible from an operating and business pov and from the customers pov.

GameFAQs is NOWHERE near as easy to use as GameSpot was. That site has always been an absolute mess with features being absurdly difficult to find, nothing is clear, and it looks straight up out of 1997.romana86

I'm still baffled at as to what the logic was behind this. Gamefaqs has nearly all of the game specific forum traffic, the Gamespot game specific forums are pretty much all dead. As in little to no user traffic.

What happens when there is no traffic? There's no point in even bother looking, and people begin leaving. This change was a MAJOR mistake, the Gamefaqs boards need to be merged with Gamespot once again.

Ideally, as someone above me mentioned, there should just be one site. I question why Gamefaqs is actually still around, as the site seems outdated as heck... anyway, please change it back to the old system.

Also with the recent changes, I highly suggest Gamespot admins consult with the forum community before the supposed "forum revamp" is going to occur. The way the comments update was handled, if something similar goes down with the forum changes it could be disastrous for the site's community.