5549131

Re: Ghost Town?

August 21st, 2011 01:01 PM

Ever do any ship modding? I could really, really, really...really use a Vesta Class conversion for SFC III.

5549465

Re: Ghost Town?

August 22nd, 2011 12:12 PM

I actually did. I had my own designs and such and I think they may still be up on Filefront. I was under either the name DarknessKnight15 or Darkness Knight 15 (with spaces) there too. I haven't been a gamer for years though and any ability I had to create or mod ships has long been lost. Sometimes I miss those days. What's the Vesta class from?

5549631

Re: Ghost Town?

August 22nd, 2011 07:45 PM

Not really. There was just a long period of time where the PC was really friendly to user created content. That is not the reason GF has dropped off the map.

I agree with this statement. The Files Network Sites are no longer relavant. They are not relavant because they do not offer user generated content for popular titles.

Its not that people don't want to create, just look at the popularity of Youtube, Minecraft, and Halo's "Forge". Also look at the mods and maps for Valve games. People still want to create content, and they want to enjoy user generated content.

GF lost a lot of its user base, which means that it lost whatever content creators it did have. Given these points, it is not clear whether or not GF will ever return to its glory days.

If GF is ever to return to the glory days, then it needs to let go of the past. Deactivate all of the old forums (or require a certain number of posts), and redirect all old Files Network sites to the "General Gaming" forum.

GameFront needs to be on the lookout for new potential user content games, even indie titles, in order to attract content creators who are willing to host files on the GameFront servers.

5549632

Re: Ghost Town?

August 22nd, 2011 07:56 PM

I cannot agree more to this. Excellently said.

Most of the games listed here are either way outdated and simply died as there's no longer interest in created custom user's content, or these games were picked as wrong choices.

I still wonder as to why Fable 1/Fable:The Lost Chapters never got added to the list. It has had a great amount of user-created content. Even these days, looking at just how old the game is, Fable still has newly created content by various users. Of course not as much, but quite a deal.

Not just for the Fable series, but also a list of other games of which I've wondered why they never were added to our site.

So in short, I agree with Monster_user. We have a huge list of games here, but the very majority of it is dead. A good way to let the forums seem less dead would be to remove the dead forums and merge them into General Yib-Yab (Off Topic).

The tighter it is, the more alive it would look.

5549637

Re: Ghost Town?

August 22nd, 2011 08:20 PM

That's a good point. The plethora of un-used forums and sites gives the impression of an almost abandoned franchise, at least from top tier administrators. More importantly, is the relevance of the games. Many of which are no longer.

5549638

Re: Ghost Town?

August 22nd, 2011 08:25 PM

Most games just don't support modding. I don't know why, because modding increases the survivability of a game.

5549641

Re: Ghost Town?

August 22nd, 2011 08:29 PM

Survivability isn't really in the interests of a company. Especially when they can get rid of mods and create crappy DLC instead.

5549648

Re: Ghost Town?

August 22nd, 2011 09:45 PM

It's not so much the overall activity, it's the type of activity that's changed. Tech Discussion used to get used a lot, not so much anymore. Even Gen Gaming Discussion goes through slow dry spells between major releases, at which times the "What are you currently playing?" thread is one of the few active ones.

The clientele has clearly changed. There used to be a fair amount of tech head mods participating, now they're more in the background with I assume higher up duties. A lot of younger mods have been hired whom are active with chat, but the chat has somewhat shifted to other boards and RPG type games when on the usual boards.

What I've noticed most is the chat is getting more and more driven by RPG social circles who's participants don't generally engage much at all in chat of other varieties. This is OK for those into these types of games, but for those not, it can lead them to chat elsewhere. No one wants to make numerous posts and get no response as if no one cares what they'e into.

5549664

Re: Ghost Town?

August 22nd, 2011 11:13 PM

I sort of agree, for some reason some publishers and developers see user created content as an a enemy, why? I don't know, while their game could sell for years based off of user created content, they think DLC is the better way to do it atleast for the short gain of money, which leaves me with a confused face, especially when DLC is atmost an hour or two worth of content at worst it's nothing at all but OOOOO a new item.

5549674

Re: Ghost Town?

August 23rd, 2011 12:13 AM

So they can charge you full price for the same thing done slightly different a year later.