In my opinion, I feel like GameSpot is simply neglecting unions. The only place where it's ever really active is the general forums is in the general forums (literally). There used to be times when people would come on and post every day to try and help the union out in level, get new members, get recognition, etc. However, since GameSpot has stopped all that, not only have other unions been drowning, but this union as well. This union focuses on unions, and to be quite frank with you, about 90% of the unions on GameSpot are dead.Â
There is no incentive anymore to go post in unions, when you can just go to the OT forums or the general games forums and talk there and get a quick reply to talk with people. Unions used to be here for specific topics where you could make friends and be in competition, or affiliation with other unions. What is the point of that anymore? There is no point anymore. Why? Because there are no incentives, there are no pros of having a union anymore, when you could do the exact same thing in the OT, or other forums.Â
As for those of you saying that unions are good to focus on one topic and release news, and features games, etc, yeah, for how long though? Sure, you'll get a few members active in the first week, but then after a while it will go dead because members will start to fade because they see no incentives anymore, they don't see the value of putting effort into something that GameSpot is not even going to support and simply bury away as stated before.
Before unions could gain levels, could gain emblems, could actually have a purpose for being made. The purpose was to create a family in a sense that was related in similar likes and preferences. But how can that happen now if everyone is losing hope. It's nice that some of us are optimistic, but that doesn't mean everyone is, some people are just discouraged because they see GameSpot doing nothing with unions. Hence, no activity in unions and a lack of support for them. If GameSpot would at least put some effort into fixing unions, perhaps featuring them, giving them more abilities, implementing incentives, allowing for more oppertunities and ways to compete or affiliate with a formal sysem, or have some type of system where people could actually enjoy being in a union that would actually be worth something, then people would gain confidence and perhaps also be more active when they see what benefits unions are getting. Right now though, I see no benefits. All I see is attempts and failures.Â
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