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This place is a ****in' ghost town. Staff has all but stopped giving a damn, and the only fresh content I see is chatter about mundane stuff and old FF titles.
I've wasted too much time chasing ghosts, I have writing to do, and it cannot be done here.
2012 called, and it wants you all to let go...
<3 See you sometime, somewhere beyond the here and now. <3
-OT
Well, alrighty then!
You're not wrong - most of us have grown up, and unfortunately away. In the age of reddit and Facebook groups, it's tougher to pull a crowd in on a message board that doesn't have a couple dozen posts per hour. Activity begets activity, so it is what it is.
Enjoy your internet.
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Well, as an Admin, it's mandate to actively work towards fixing that or making the tough call of throwing the towel in, not sit around saying, "it is what it is."
By doing nothing, collectively, you've allowed this community to suffocate and die.
This, won't juat solve itself Colt... Any site needs an active staff to stimulate and direct it's growth.
I found a sticky from a contest 2 years old... Looks like it was the last of that event too...
We could concoct excuses as to why things are how they are for the next two years, or face reality. Somewhere, somehow, the give-a-shit was misplaced. Events stopped, contests stopped, community projects stopped, creative writing stopped... Pruning irrelevant threads stopped...
There are thousands of message boards THRIVING with users of all ages, so I'd have to say there's much more to this tragic tale than complete and strictly user fault, as you seem to be suggesting.
Enjoy your Administrator's position.
Final Fantasy as a series isn't really what it used to be. Most of people who liked and experienced the older titles have grown up moved on with their lives, occasionally coming back just to chill here. Younger people don't really know them and don't find the newer FFXIII titles all that appealing.
It may not be how it used to be, but it's still a place. :lol:
It feels kinda exclusive again, like how it did a long time ago, before things really took off, around 2002 or so. Those were the days, but these can be days too!
Maybe this place will see a boost in activity again. Stranger things have happened.
And yeah, Odin, the Final Fantasy games have changed, but they could always change back. And there are always the classics. And always new people to play the old things. Just the other day, I saw the original Dracula for the first time, and I think that movie is like from the 1920s or so.
Every cloud has a silver lining! :p
And Outlaw, leaving so soon? I just got back! Haha. But if you go, all the best to you! :D
Overblown, usually negative "I'M LEAVING" announcements are the funniest thing about this forum.
Sucks when people call you out on your shit, doesn't it, Ocean?
Laziness is the funniest thing about this place, and IT killed your board, not me.
People leaving you has been a serious problem here. It's brought to the brink of inactivity. Yet you claim to find this amusing...
The more peopke reply to this thread, the clearer the problem here becomes.
You can't fool me, Ocean. It's kinda like my super power; I can see through people's shit.
lol
The forum isn't dead, I've seen a dead forum and it isn't a pretty sight. This forum is far from dead, sure there are not millions of posts but you don't need loads for an active forum.
This forum isn't dead. You know what is dead? The Crocodile Hunter.
So what would your super hero name be? Shit Head?Quote:
Originally Posted by OutlawTorn
Tbh the reason I like hanging out here is because there isn't hordes of annoying people making annoying posts. And I was having a good morning until I read this.
Don't protest about a forum being inactive by not being active. I can smell the hypocrisy.
Imma help you out here.Quote:
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o·ver·blown
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adjective
adjective: overblown
1.
excessively inflated or pretentious.
So when are you leaving?
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Originally Posted by The Goddamn Clint Eastwood
RIP. A true hero.
12 replies (now 13) and 130 views in a day? Damn, this forum is more dead than the Byzantine Empire.
Also, you haven't left yet. You sent me a private message a few hours ago. Usually when somebody wants to leave a forum, they just stop going on the forum. I do it from time to time. There was a period earlier this year where I didn't even log on for six months. If you have to announce that you're leaving, all you're really doing is admitting to everybody that you're a drama queen. Be a man and leave.
Maybe it's an elaborate rouse, because a history of topics with mild amounts of drama have driven spikes of activity in our forum for years now.
Conspiracy...
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The forums might be abit down in activity, but Final Fantasy environment, spirit and charm will never be gone. People will always come back here. What FF did was one of the boldest moves in rpg history. It started the whole damn thing. How can it be dead?
Guys, he brought back activity.
Don't worry about the activity dropping. I can just make more anti-feminism threads and god is bullshit threads, then we can watch the forums come back to life with the power of a thousand suns. I might even be able to lure out Sasquatch from his cave.
Well those 140 or so posts he made in 2.5 years really helped contribute to the boards... Just sayin
Jump down his throat all you want guys, but sadly, he's right...
I miss him already.
March 2012 - November 2014.
How will history remember the OutlawTorn era? The world may never know.
I think I speak for at least one of us when I say "A toast to you, good sir, for wanting to communicate on a specific-interest internet forum instead of ****ing social media networks."
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Nix, no he isn't. Do you see Zelda, or other game series forums bustling with activities, art contests, rp writing, geopolitical, surrealistic, ideological debates and other crap? It's same everywhere. Communities don't have to go bat shit insane and flood the forums every day.
Let's also not forget that FF games take a very long time (compared to other games) to make and they have shifted course from their usual, more classic, turn based rpg style so don't expect the audience to always be as big as other games.
Bye Felicia
Actually some Zelda sites did go ape shit over the weekend. My roommate who runs a Zelda site and a general gaming website had about 100k+ visitors a day on his site for that announcement alone and he's getting more and more visitors and members daily because of it. He makes a living off these 2 sites.Quote:
Originally Posted by Odin1199
The crazy thing I thought was, his general gaming site got more visitors than the Zelda site.
This thread has been the best late birthday present that any one of you have ever given me. <3
OutlawTorn for admin 2015.
Alas, the stupidity and ignorance of men has summoned me yet again (one of your "friends").
A: This site IS dying, and you'd have to be clinically retarded to not see it.
B: Two site that ARE, YOU, yet are THRIVING on a day-to,day, year-to-year, because their Staff actually works.
Final Fantasy Shrine Forums
Final Fantasy Forums
But hey! .... Villainize me for giving more of a **** about your derelict site than all of you put together.
Maybe the problem here has been all of YOU... This is so pathetic I feel shitty by association.
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Lol are you drunk bro?
Are you clinically retarded, illiterate, or in denial?
You've eliminated all other possibilities.
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It's prety bad when someone you all (everyone who poste here) would call a good friend emailed me to 'you're gonna wanna see this shit.'
Said person loved you all like family, but you're making it VERY painful right now.
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It's prety bad when someone you all (everyone who poste here) would call a good friend emailed me to 'you're gonna wanna see this shit.'
Said person loved you all like family, but you're making it VERY painful right now.
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It's my baby brother's birthday, I've only had like 8 shots. My ability to type on a mobile device has been greatly hindereed, but it matters not. This is pathetic. You don't have to like me, I ain't fond of anyone here either. Why would I be? I was given NO reason to. But you keep making this about me, not your community, which my 7y/o nephew was able to determine is INACTIVE based on posting New & Old.
I don't care you all stop logging on right now. It's about princple for me now Noxy. Denial, childish dodging and misdirecting from the issue, ducking blame, and sheep simply falling in with the flock. General stupidity.
Picture us, if you will Noxy, All on a ship. I shout out, "WE'RE SINKING!" Cp'n Colt yells, "NAY!!! WE BE FINE!" Then, as we're submerging, the entire crew hangs me from the mast, cracking jokes as the ship is sucked into the depths...
I get it, no one gives a ****, and those who do fear upsetting the Gods. But don't hide behind me, earning favor with your forum overlords. Pathetic.
I'd like to note that I didn't villainize you, and agreed with your points. And there are three or four far more active Final Fantasy communities; of this, I am aware. The point I was making before is that it's difficult to retain NEW activity when there isn't any OLD activity. I never denied that this place is slow, but it's not dead.
We get surges every time we get the sponsored boost from Square Enix with contests and articles and such, but that lasts for a couple weeks and then peters out because the existing community is averaging 26 years old and 1.2 children each. Those of us who have stayed are not on the internet as much as we used to be. It's not that we don't love this place any more, we just don't live here.
I would LOVE to have this place up and running like it was a few years ago, but like I said at the VERY BEGINNING before the insults and trolling and counter-trolling (all of which I've opted to ignore until now), activity begets activity. You're right that "it is what it is" ISN'T a proper response to FIX the issue, but to assume I don't care is belligerent and ignorant.
~ sent from my Galaxy Note 3 via Tapatalk Pro
You're actions since 2012 have shown that you don't "care enough."
I never assume.
It's ON YOU. 100%
Make your own contests, WORK on the community... In 2 months, I saw 0 efforts to stimulate activity from staff.
If activity begets activity, period, Forum Management 101, you should save everyone's time and throw the towel in.
You know what? Here's the thing.
It may not be as active as YOU like, and yes I stopped posting for awhile over some dumb shit that happened. It really made me weary of this place and the people who post here.
BUT. I have made excellent friends with a few members and I very much love them dearly. They know who they are (when are we double dating & having beers Pete!?)
Regardless of activity, or what goes on between members, this forum and site has its place here on the internet. I might be a newb, but I've always enjoyed posting here.
And when/if worse comes to worst, the members here are genuinely there for you. I know this first-hand.
You're bitching about forum inactivity and threatening to leave. In the timeframe of the OP and now, you should have been gone days ago.
Like Clint Eastwood said, if you're going to go, go. Stop whining and coming back. Leave. I'm sure there are people who will miss you, but life will go on. The forum will still be here. Your opinion on how crappy this place may be doesn't hold much value. The owners and admins aren't just going to say "Oh that person says we suck. We should listen to him and close it down".
& personally, I actually like having this smaller knit community. It gives all of us a chance to get to know each other on a personal level and make meaningful friendships.
And shocking as it may be, we all have lives outside of posting on forums.
If you're so upset about the way this place has gone, do what you say.
Actions > Words all day long.
Instead of talking mad shit, just go. Leave. Like I said before "BYE FELICIA!"
In severe denial with slight possibility of illiteracy. I thought so.
That's all you had to say.
What's with this guy insulting people by calling them clinically retarded?
Man, you gotta go. Just leave. I can even arrange it for you, if you're too drunk (I mean badass because you "only had 8 shots" high5 bro) to figure out how. You're a troll, and no one wants your stank attitude here.
I've seen this before where a forum that only has a small community is belittled because it doesn't have masses of posts, or it wasn't as active as "the glory days" and is called out for being dead. But here is the thing, this forum is not dead and I'm not saying that because I have emotional attachment to the forum, because I have far few posts to be emotionally attached. I am stating a fact it is not dead there are posts daily, it's small and slow but not dead.
I have said before a dead forum is completely different it has no life, no laughter, no friends. It might come alive for one day when people visit to see if it still around, but it will go back to being dead for months, no posts at all. This is not a dead and insulting people just because they are saying it is not dead is not cool.
Do itQuote:
Originally Posted by OceanEyes28
How have you not been banned yet?
Banning him only proves his point that we "don't care."
I care what he has to say, just not how he chooses to express it.
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I'm surprised anyone actually replied to him lol.
I was listening to this song while reading the updates to this post