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I think the problem is the forums try to encompass too many games. Many people, myself included, join game-specific forums. Over 9,000 times the activity, help, and resources.

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The actual problem is that games are becoming more and more unfriendly to user created content, what was the last major game that offered a decent SDK? Other then Fallout there really arent any in recent history, one of my favorite titles, total war games went from a very open and easily modded to becoming hardcoded where nothing could really be changed except textures and various game play variables.

As more and more games are becoming console oriented don't expect any of that to change except for the few hardcore PC developers that are left out there, and with that said don't get your hopes too high for what a gaming file hosting site can really bring to the table.

Noe did the right thing by bringing in partners, that opens new doors to what this site can offer to the community and bring up activity in the forums, I'd personally like to see this forums more integrated into the main gamefront gateway site, a good example of the two blended together can be see on "the escapist" website.

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I'm definitely in agreement with the last two comments. I think the forums need to be better integrated into the Gamefront main site as well as the forums themselves being streamlined.

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Neh, the problem is that FilesNetwork was relevant in terms of the games it covered back in 2004, and now it isn't relevant anymore.

Most of the traffic this forum got found it's way here from the FilesNetwork sites. Those sites covered games which where more popular at the time. Now most of the FilesNetwork sites are about old games that few people now mod for, there's less traffic hence less forum traffic, hence a dead forum.

Honestly, scroll down the "Games" list on the front page of the forum. X3: Terran Conflict? Trackmania? The Movies? Sure, most of the games on there are actually cool games, and people still like them but, they just don't have the popularity they used to have. Mostly looking at the Star Wars and Star Trek games which did bring a lot of traffic in back in the day.

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That's why we have been concentrating our limited resources on the general chit chat section. A lot of the former game forums we had were merged into the general gaming forum a while ago.

In my opinion a large part of the problem of decreasing activity is that many people who join forums nowadays are more interested in consuming than in creating content. Most of the people who complain (and luckily there are only few of them) rarely post any threads of their own.

Then there is the missing influx of people due to the hard time that Filefront/Gamefront has been going through, but lately things have been improving.

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The entire FH community also left for the new independent forums.

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I find the forums to be active enough. It may be quiet at times, but it does pick up. All in all, I am quite satisfied with the amount of activity.










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I remember when GF was known for having the largest member count of any gaming forum online or something... What happened to that? Was there a profile wipe to get rid of old, dead profiles?

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Yeah but who needs them, right?
It's slowed down quite a bit. With people disappearing, or just outgrowing the place. Or getting fed up with some of the regulars. Different reasons.

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Ghost Town...I think that would be over in the SFC: III section of FF, It's practically a cemetery. Although, I do hang around to answer questions for any of the living that happen to pass through...*sigh*.:(

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SFCIII, I used to frequent that forum years ago. I think I was actually a mod for it once. I know I was for the EF/EFII forum. Days looooong gone by. Now both of them are more or less completely dead. Occasionally the EF forums have a burst of life, but it's rare.