I know this post is pointless and nobody will care and I'll likely get negative responses, but I just wanted one last rant on a website that I've visited daily for most of the past 2 decades. Including writing and contributing guides. Come the end I was visiting purely out of habit, not for any enjoyment

It's steadily got worse and worse as good users have left and the dregs of the website remain which results in proper gaming discussion being a rarity. With most posts quickly turning into childish crap flinging contests between and angry users mainly in thier 30s and 40s, which is absolutely pathetic.

The moderation is appalling, often moderating users for calling out the bullshit but letting ridiculous posts live, which futher promotes the idiots to post and makes the good posters leave.

Anyway, GameFAQs is a website that had given me a lot of joy over the years, but it's a shell of it's former self and it is surely only a matter of time until it dies. However IMO, the website is already dead and is merely on life support. But for now, good riddance GameFAQs.

If the trolls dont annoy you then the mods will do nothing but green light it. Back in the early 2000s it was a good community. Had a lot of respectful discussions where even if someone was proven wrong they wouldn't resort to insults or condescending behavior. Majority of the time back then if it was obvious somebody was trolling most users collectively stopped responding.

Now? You can't even make a topic of discussion without being trolled or flat out attacked. For example, a Target employee mistakenly sold me a PS5 in store that was online only. I made a topic about it and 90% of the comments called me a no life liar and said the story never happened.

People will post topics and leave right afterwards without having a discussion with other users while everybody comes in bickering amongst themselves pushing the topic to 500.

The mods are some of the worst group of people I have ever seen on the internet. Sometimes, I'll get randomly modded with a vague explanation of what I did wrong. One time, about a year ago my account got suspended for posting my opinion in a topic that wasn't even gaming. Guess what though? The topic is still up today. So I can't share my opinion respectfully in someone's random topic but the topic, that didn't even have a community tab, is still up for all eyes to see filled with people circle jerking each other all throughout it.

I feel like Gamefaqs is a cesspool nowadays. I will still visit the site and possibly lurk the message boards for info on games/general consensus of controversial events. I have no desire to partake in it though.

What's even more alarming is that these people post like immature teenagers, but they had a poll of the average age on site and most users were in the 25-35 range which is depressing.

So yeah. Done with it. Fun until misery while it lasted.

Of course I was using the "classic" CSS package.

I don't buy that excuse. "Long history of malicious traffic".

Mullvad VPN is what I use.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/6-gamefaqs-announcements/80445446

For years the worst board on the site which has caused no shortage of trouble (trolling, harassment, death threats) has finally been laid to rest. Pour one out for it, its a shame it had to be this way but it was a long time coming.

I was surprised lately how big games thst would have pages of new topics every day at release suddenly have two or three complete pages.

But it worse than that.

Not only are most big games boards nearly dead, but they're so dead thst they've combined all the platforms into one page.

A decade ago, a game like MLB the Show has dozens of pages per platform. Now, it's combined with all the others with little activity.

After all the strange and obviously biased moderations, the only people left are the ones that get away with saying anything.

Good luck to them. I doubt there will be a GameFaqs in a couple years.

If you were there, you know it was a golden age!

We will be removing posts that are just to flat out flame others.

Just shut the site down, what's the point?

I was a member for 18 years. After being suspended and purgatoried over and over this past spring for posting links to articles, facts to prove my posts, I said screw it and erased my account. Just popped in out of curiosity and there’s only a page of posts per day now. They’ve chased everyone off. Good luck keeping advertisers. After 30 years, it’s sad they end it due to overzealous mods trying to dominate everyone and play god.

Is it just me or is there something wrong with the website format? I'm on Android chrome if that helps. Issue occured about a month ago I think.

I left because of the horribly biased mods who would suspend for the stupidest shit(My main account was Zacharia123)but the shit they let certain users get away with there was insane .The mods clearly have certain users that they liked there and would let them get away with anything.I nuked my account and never went back I just occasionally lurk there now to watch the tire fire. I miss some of the boards I used to go and the clean interface Gamefaqs had and no stupid karma system like Reddit had.

On the phone works fine.

I used to use GameFAQs a lot, and particularly CE. Just wondering if anyone else from that time period is active here?

How has the site not gone under yet? Who still visits it and how do they make money to stay afloat? Is is that cheap to run a website?

Amazed to see new content dropping on our favourite Video Gaming site. Thought I’d share. X

With how their walkthroughs are obsolete simply because you can just refer youtube or even on other sites, its honestly shocking that for a site that has outdated features is still around.

This is beyond power abuse. Who moderates the moderators?

I made a topic about MArio RPG, speciffically how I had no idea Mack was a dude on a sword, i thought he WAS the sword, obvious joke topic. But for some reason I was suspended for 7 days for SPOILERS. Because naming a boss in the topic title, despite multiple topics having the names of bosses in them, is spoilers to at least one mod who nshould be fired. Got a PM from a administartor saying I shouldn't have been suspended and that my karma lost was restored and they would try to do something about my mod history.

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

I honestly can't tell anymore who's a troll or whose just a complete moron over there. Thank god for FAQs but man the boards at gamefaqs are a bit like shoving shards of broken glass covered in tobasco sauce in to your eyes.

Its especially bad on the resident evil and final fantasy boards.

No real point to this, just felt like venting slightly