Originally posted by: TylerBarnes
<2￠> Interesting read with varying points. I'm still a very new user, so I may not have the perspective an most on here. I'm more a tech geek, musician, and baby coder (Thanks Nerdy Nights!) than a collector/gamer. Marketplaces are very important, but not where I would spend my time.
I am more interested in reading write-ups, programming help threads, tech info, asking programming/modding questions. So an new forum would not change my ability to do that, and this place is still here to reference and to read while it's up. And even if it gets scrubbed, as mentioned earlier Archive.org will keep the content alive if this place truly goes away and people want to recover their threads and writups to post elsewhere and preserve.
On the surface, a new site has more benefits than bad considering the unique situation the members of the community are in vs the powers in control. Modern forum tech would be a welcomed addition. Sure the user base would not all carry over, but I think it will more highlight the difference between actual active users vs accounts that are dead. From reading this thread alone I feel the top contributors and folks that find this community close to their heart understand why this move would benefit them remaining the community they are rather than attributing their community to a specific URL. The community is where the people are. Look what happened to 8 bit peoples. They moved on and the chip community thrived instead on Chipmusic.org for a while.
I would join the new, and stay here while it's up as well. Focusing more time and energy to the location I get more out of, while also realizing that it will not be an instant hit and growing a forum means using the forum.
You're entirely too rational to be posting words on the interwebs. lol
But yes, you've got it. We want to talk about gametapes, host instructionals, host contests, buy and sell, goof off with peeps that have common interests, and all the while have the freedom to properly address site concerns and make site improvements. Wild concept, I know.
The good old days of collecting games are dead, that's to be sure. No more stacks of NES and SNES games for 50 cents a pop. But we can still recapture the feeling of a site built upon community interests rather than be a prop for a corporate pay-site that only seeks to farm the community for potential revenue.
Make no mistake about it, GoCollect, Wata, and Heritage have their hands in the hobby for 1 common reason. To capitalize on commerce generated by the hobby. We aren't seeking to rail against that machine, but we also don't want to be at the mercy of it...
If a user on our forum wants to, for example, post objective content that illustrates the potential conflict of interest inherent in those corporate bedfellows, then we want them to be free to post that without fear of censorship.
There are pros and cons to the new game collecting landscape and I'm not here to say it's changing for the worst. I'm just saying that THIS site has direct ties to the "for-profit machine", and the new forum is solely meant to foster a community that enjoys the hobby.
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