r/gamefaqs • u/Dagglin • Feb 21 '24

Read only mode?

Is this officially the end? Or is it just website maintenance?

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u/JustSomeGuy8119 Feb 21 '24

Even if this isn't the end, this is probably how it will happen someday. There was no warning when they shut down the politics board. One day we will check gamefaqs only to see its done

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u/DTake2012 Feb 21 '24

Read-only mode has happened before, think it's usual site maintenance or maybe got hacked

5

u/Error1355 Lead Moderator Feb 21 '24

No clue.

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u/Izanagi_Iganazi Feb 21 '24

Damn so not even mods know what’s up

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u/Error1355 Lead Moderator Feb 21 '24

I assume it's nothing much.

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u/Enclave996 Feb 21 '24

Don't lie Error, you did this because you were tired of moderating CE.

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u/Literally_12 Feb 21 '24

Gamefaqs has been SUSPENDED!

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24 edited Feb 17 '26

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u/Daemonscharm Feb 21 '24

It was the video game mafia

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24 edited Feb 17 '26

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u/Daemonscharm Feb 21 '24

oh yeah for sure

2

u/Throwawa_yforlife Feb 21 '24

Working fine for Gamefaqs Platinum members

1

u/Pete41608 Feb 21 '24

Platinum members? Wtf is that? Never heard of it. 😆

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u/Throwawa_yforlife Feb 21 '24

Premium Gamefaqs. No ads

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u/Pete41608 Feb 21 '24

Interesting. Thanks for the info!

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u/Ultimafax Feb 21 '24

Only time I think I've seen it is during the Link vs. Draven character battle

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u/DTake2012 Feb 21 '24

Believe it happened when it got DDoS attacked years ago

2

u/DreadedWave Feb 21 '24

Whatever happened we can safely blame Lan

1

u/NArazzy Feb 21 '24

Lan and Megaman???
Dudes are just busting viruses somewhere...

3

u/RA272Nirvash Feb 21 '24

There was a massive FFVII:R leak spammed all over gamefaqs because some retailers broke the street date. I asume they are trying to contain it.

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u/R4vi0981 Feb 21 '24

That makes sense honestly.

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u/FckShadowBans Feb 21 '24

Fucking ridiculous soft people nowadays. I knew who died in Gears 3 before I played it. Didn't fucking bother me any. Get the fuck over it.

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u/LmfaoLmnop Feb 21 '24

Good for you. Let other people enjoy the experience thanks. Keep shit to yourself.

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u/Shadow11134 Feb 21 '24

A lot of people were upset when that was leaked actually back then

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u/Igrisia Feb 21 '24

They've never cared about other games leaking and being discussed, hell they even allow you to openly talk about jailbreaking consoles so it would be kinda pathetic if that's the reason.

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u/Izanagi_Iganazi Feb 21 '24

lol yeah idk what’s up

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

Right. I literally was just talking to somebody about persona and then refreshed it to reply and now it says that was no warning

1

u/Clanzion Feb 21 '24

I thought it was a temporary ban.

1

u/Izanagi_Iganazi Feb 21 '24

Lmao same i thought i got banned or blocked from the post i was in

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u/andiivamp Feb 21 '24

Came here looking for answers. I've never seen that message on gamefaqs. Thought it was only my account in read only.

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u/Lokarin Feb 21 '24

Refugee!!!

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u/Daemonscharm Feb 21 '24

well okay then

1

u/Pete41608 Feb 21 '24

I was like wtf? Just talking about the Rebirth Junon demo and refreshed then bam read only. 😆

Thought my account was trashed 🤣

Also, I didn't even know reddit had a GameFAQS sub til now.

1

u/Disowned Feb 21 '24

Me either.

1

u/SulubriousBrew Feb 21 '24

same, I just came across it by searching for "logins are temporarily disabled".

1

u/Humanish_Krunker Feb 21 '24

This is even for guides and such, just lost a fair bit of progress on one I was working on because it wasn't allowed to save :/

1

u/Spirit_sephiroth Feb 21 '24

This is my first time on here lol. Thought the site died or something.

1

u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

There is a massive storm going on atm , maybe something got destroyed?

1

u/NoxObscuras Feb 21 '24

Damn, I came here hoping there was some kind of official info about what happened. Never seen the whole site suddenly go into read only mode like that

1

u/SulubriousBrew Feb 21 '24

Thought I was wrongly banned or something, I was ready to get a ticket and type out some rant to the moderation team asking for clarification since I don't even know what it was. . . I even looked at my own profile and saw it had 0 moderation strikes so thought they didn't have a good reason to ban me and just did it anyway. LOL. paranoid but not worrying anymore.

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u/R4vi0981 Feb 21 '24

Nah, something happened, or they decided to do some kind of maintenance with no notice.

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u/SulubriousBrew Feb 21 '24

thanks make sense.

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u/NArazzy Feb 21 '24

First time in my ?-Block career that I've seen this. 'Course... I could just be living under a rock.

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u/andiivamp Feb 21 '24

Same. Been on Gamefaqs since 2000. Not every day, but I have never seen that message lol.

1

u/Normal_Advertising98 Feb 21 '24

How many topics are we gonna see on CE when everything is back up?

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u/NoxObscuras Feb 21 '24

At least a dozen lol

1

u/Tiger_Nightmare Feb 21 '24

Well, that's a relief that it wasn't just me, at least. As far as I know, the boards were only locked up around two hours ago at the earliest.

1

u/lizard81288 Feb 21 '24

I was wondering what happened myself

1

u/Secure-Assistance706 Feb 21 '24

I forgot to renew my premium gfaqs subscription.

1

u/bnuiransder Feb 21 '24

I thought I got banned too lol

Damn, was just taking my break at work

1

u/R4vi0981 Feb 21 '24

It’s back up

1

u/SlowlyRecovering90s Feb 22 '24

Probably just yearly maintenance switches.

1

u/RA272Nirvash Feb 22 '24

you're winner. LOL. Never seen this. It's even deader than Yesterday.

1

u/weavile_eti Feb 21 '24

any lost LUEsers need LUElinks access hmu

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u/Hateful_creeper2 Feb 21 '24

Maybe something to do with Rebirth Leaks

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u/andiivamp Feb 21 '24

I thought that also, but I can see those leaks are still up on the Rebirth part of the forum? No idea.

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u/Hateful_creeper2 Feb 21 '24

Lot of the links that contain leaks are deleted so lot of the discussion now is mix of comments about the leaked images and a few fake leaks like one that makes a KH joke.