Activity and Styles

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Yeah but if you give points for threads and posts you will eventually have people coming up with random topics and then necorposting on some topic 5 years ago. That is bring up activity but it's also creating spam imo. A thread dead for years is dead for a reason because people were done with it. Cool make a new thread and then it'll get 1 or 2 replies because people have done that thread before.

My thing is it's Square Enix. They don't release enough games that everybody will enjoy all the time. The latest games are XIII and XIV. XIV is MMO so not much to talk in the forums when you can discuss it in game. FFXIII that not many people like so they tend to not talk about it. Almost EVERYTHING has been brought up from FF1-FF12 it's kind of hard to create more original topics of the games. They also don't release games that everyone wants to be like 7 and 8 in terms of HOLY SHIT THIS GAME IS SO OOOOOOOO COOL MATERIA JUNCTION 1OMGOMGOMGOMGOGMOGMO SQUALL? GUNBLADE? CLOUD LOOK AT CLOUD.

Like people expect that and I'm not joking, I have met countless people who were like. I was expecting XIII to be more like 7 because they said Lightning was a female cloud. But it's not like 7. I almost just walked away.

Those 2 competitions for the game and concert I dont have a tablet. I also have Tactics on PSP and I couldn't travel. I'm not saying this isn't good ideas it's just kind of hard to bring back activity on a subject not as exciting as it was 10 years ago when everyone was in the process of playing these and still playing them. I mean I play FF8 randomly again and doing the card games all the time but I'm not making a thread of necroposting a thread because I know that thread has been discussed people multiple times.

Just in terms of activity, can we all congratulate Loaf on what I estimate is his longest post ever.





Andro does a good job keeping an eye on FF and other gaming news. All the moderators are great. This is not and will never be the biggest forum, but small/medium forums are pretty cool places, IMO. Tight-knit.

The biggest problem, if you're aiming to increase the number of people coming here, is that people aren't as excited by a new Final Fantasy as they once were. Sort of peaked around X, I think. I wonder if there are stats.

EDIT: After staring at the fist GIF for about two minutes, I realised something. If the food just gets magic'd onto their plates, why can't they just magic it into their stomachs and then go smoke flavoured tobacco?

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Just in terms of activity, can we all congratulate Loaf on what I estimate is his longest post ever.

Careful! You might encourage him!

Loaf is a simple man.
He prefers to skim when he can.
Once he did plead:
"Too long! Didn't read!"
Must have a short attention span.

(I kid, loaf. I kid!)

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Slightly in my defense, I may have crotchety old man syndrome but I don't feel I afflict others with it directly---through a cudgel or otherwise. Only in threads like these do I ever mention it. I prefer instead to contribute to the forum wherever I feel is best, whenever I feel is a good time to contribute. There may be half-decade-long gaps of activity between contributions, but that is my prerogative as a regular member.

And for the record, I blame getting old more than social media. More responsibilities (and thus less time) are the main reasons most of my older, active TFF friends here moved on. Many of them moved on during their college years. Personally, I had to transfer all power from main engineering, so to speak, to write long dissertations about college course topics instead of writing long-winded posts about X controversial topic at TFF. Priorities.

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EDIT: After staring at the fist GIF for about two minutes, I realised something. If the food just gets magic'd onto their plates, why can't they just magic it into their stomachs and then go smoke flavoured tobacco?

Omg, and completely miss the amazingness of eating and tasting? Are you mad?