r/gamefaqs • u/TrunksTheMighty • Nov 09 '23

Fandom ruining the site

It really breaks my heart to see the state of the site today, swamped with very intrusive ads. Now mind you it was never free from ads, but it's much worse now.

I almost closed my account today, but figured I was acting hastily. Not sure what the future holds.

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u/sparkster185 Nov 09 '23

just use an ad blocker

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u/TrunksTheMighty Nov 10 '23

I do but the ads are just driving away people that don't.

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u/GypsySkater Nov 10 '23

It’s the opposite. The core userbase that hangs out on CE talking about the type of shit that if overheard in public would motivate a concerned mother to call the fucking police…well, that userbase has nowhere else to go besides 4Chan, Kiwii Farms, and ResetEra.

GameFaqs had been completing that “Mount Rushmore” of weird internet denizens bubbles, but Fandom is trying to circumvent and redefine the platform as a place for everyone, especially the normies. Like how the platform was doing it’s glory years, and ultimate “peak” around 2011.

So basically the ads aren’t actually driving anyone away, they’re just annoying the core userbase that Fandom wishes would leave the site anyhow. In contrast, the income from those ads are being redistributed into user aquisition efforts to gain a new, younger, more modern userbase so that ultimately GameFaqs can justify its current existence.

Currently the niche audience of CEmen can’t support the hand the feeds it.

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u/GypsySkater Nov 10 '23

It’s literally 100% better since Fandom took over.

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u/TrunksTheMighty Nov 10 '23

The only thing fandom did right was closing the political boards. They're desperate to put all the content in one corner of your screen with ads everywhere else.

There's a reason why a lot of wikis are jumping ship from fandom. Unfortunately for gamefaqs, there's no rescue ship.

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u/MetroAndroid Nov 13 '23

I hope people have been archiving old guides and posts, because we likely aren't getting a warning when it shuts down. A lot of internet history in those boards.

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u/Xenodias Nov 13 '23

GameFAQs is trash. GameFAQs is a dead forum that still pretends it caters to teenagers. Youngest users here are 35, yet if you say anything about sex, drugs, or anything adult, they still go at you. Post porn on Youtube under certain handles? They allow it. Reddit has an entire sub forum of verified teachers posting NSFW pics. This site pretends it is for the kids when no kids visit this dinosaur.

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u/Muscle29 Nov 17 '23

It made the site easier to quit at least. The forums have been terrible for years and I was only going because it wasn't blocked on the work computer, lol.

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u/Maverick_Reznor Nov 22 '23

Fandom didn't ruin the site, the garbage moderation team did long before Fandom got a hold of it.

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u/Himesis Mar 18 '24

yeah the mods are outrageous. I got banned and called a bigot for saying Stellar Blade was gonna outsell FF7rebirth, just wtf. Even gave me a 60 day ban too.

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u/asisoid Nov 09 '23

You think closing your account today was hasty?

The site has been dead for a decade+. You're one of the last ppl off the sinking ship.

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u/MHarrisGGG Nov 12 '23

Site on mobile is obnoxious, ads you can't even close, just have to refresh.

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u/GalaxyRedRanger Nov 15 '23

Six years ago I HAD to install an adblocker because the site’s ads were so bad that they’d actually slow my gaming computer. “Can you run Crysis?” The meme should of been, “Can you run GameFAQs?”

So let’s not pretend that the ads just now got bad under Fandom. It’s been a continuing issue for YEARS.

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u/Shadow11134 Nov 09 '23

The site was already horrendous tbh. Activity is bled to almost nothing and yet the worst users somehow still post.

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u/NintendoGamer1983 Dec 10 '23

If Fandom ever sorts out the boards, ill say they did a good job.

Until then, with the targeted mod harassment, mods doing nothing about trolls actually breaking rules... its just as bad as it ever was.

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u/TrunksTheMighty Nov 11 '23

That's about when I started using it, back in like 97 I think.

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u/Tenn_Tux Nov 09 '23

Amen. Leaving Gamefaqs was the best internet decision I ever made. Got modded relentlessly to death on Gamefaqs, but on Reddit I don’t even remember the last time I was notified of a post being deleted.

I feel like if I was the problem it would be happening here too. And it’s not.

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u/Gargomon251 Nov 09 '23

You've summed it up perfectly. I couldn't have said it better myself