Eyes on Final Fantasy: Posting Activity History

[Flying Mullet]

Why must we grow up?

[Del Murder]

I'm guessing the ads do have something to do with it. Plenty of people still use IE and/or don't have adblock. I would not join these forums if I showed up via link and saw the ads the way they are.

[demondude]

A newspaper I read said 70% of people use IE. I'm guessing lots of people have those issues.

[Rye]

It's a pickle because on one hand, change might bring in more people, big change, like encorporating another gaming series into EoFF's coverage (thus is being EoFF+_). But if you do that, we change what we want this forum to be, and possibly loose people who have been loyal for years. ;o Toughie.

Jeez louisiana!

I wonder if other FF forums are gong through this activity drop?

(SPOILER)I've always thought affiliating/sister sites was a good idea, but I don't think you guys do that here!

[Tama2]

One word:

Advertising.

*Points to charts and graphs with laser pointer*

[demondude]

Notice the big jump and then the gentle slope downwards. The fact that Final Fantasy is losing some of its huge popularity fits well with this, so I think more game coverage may bring more newbies.

[Tama2]

So is that a proposal to change the entire site?

[Old Manus]

Final Fantasy became uncool a while ago

[Rye]

I think little things may help. Call it silly, but little mini banners of EoFF placed in a sig of EoFFers who post in other good forums with reputable members may well bring quite a bit of change. EoFF spreading its wild oats!

DD also has a point, FF is less popular lately, after all!

[demondude]

So is that a proposal to change the entire site?

Not really, just a proposal to make some changes.

[Flying Mullet]

Like what?

[Tama2]

I like Rye's idea.

But I also agree with DD. We need some change. It's part of survival.

Unless you guys want to ride on the tail of FF XIII. It's got some hype at least.

[demondude]

Maybe a small step with all the Square games, like Dragon Quest and The Last Remnant. Alternatively you could make bigger changes, that would be harder to come up with though.

[Del Murder]

We can't really change over the whole site without getting the owners involved, and, as some of you may already know, they aren't very involved. That's good in a way since it means they won't try to micromanage or impose a lot of changes. But the bad news is that we can't really get their attention on matters that are important to us.

I'm pretty sure this decline is due to a number of factors. The ads are obtrusive. Final Fantasy is not as popular as it once was. There are many more FF sites out there than there used to be. Frontsites with forums are going out of style and being replaced with blogs. Not sure if we can do anything about most of those, but maybe you all have suggestions.

[Old Manus]

Also, GC lately is nothing but reruns of Mafia and various compo threads in which only a small number of people can participate and care about, and actual 'general' threads are pretty boring. Just yesterday I was thinking to myself that there wasn't anything worth posting in in this section.

EDIT: goddamn being at the bottom of the page

hi, people who aren't going to see my post