Eyes on Final Fantasy: Posting Activity History

[Momiji]

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.

I think it's safe to say that that has a lot to do with it.


Ryechu: Affiliation assumes that people from one moribund forum will want to join another forum with reducing activity. It may cause a spike in activity for a couple of months, maybe, but the activity will inevitably go back to how it was. You see how many newbies stick around these days, after all.

Ideally, the best way to fix it is to get rid of the ads and start an EoFF-wide campaign to recruit newbies. Or bring Cid back. Or make an internet time machine that takes us back to when the forums were more active. Let's face it: like Del said, the owners are pretty passive and don't do much (being generous here); so if anyone wants to shell out the money to buy the site, I don't see things changing.

However, I think Final Fantasy is in its downfall, and the members who once graced this forum with their activity have either grown up or moved on. The amount of activity will inevitable reduce in the end. I hate to be pessimistic about it, but that's the long and short of it.

[demondude]

If the owners don't co-operate then we'll just have to hope that FFXIII lasts a damned long time.

[Levian]

Haha. I'm not surprised August 2006 is our peak. That was when Devil Man and Christmas both posted their asses off.

But yeah, the ads suck and every FF game since FFX-2 has sucked. One could possibly argue that FFX-2 sucked too, but they would be horribly wrong and allergic to water.

[demondude]

The community is also very within itself, newbies are probably clueless to all the in-jokes and such.

EDIT: Bring Devil Man back then!

[Tavrobel]

Ohh, hello, EoFF. Welcome to what me and some others have been discussing for, like, six months, now. It's nice to have this brought to the public attention AFTER the worst of it has already hit.

Additionally, I had a very nice conversation with Sam recently about just why every single idea or assumption that can can be made in this thread can either be shot down, heavily flawed, or just not as effective as one might think that they are. It has to do with one simple fact, and EoFF is shot dead in the water. But if you'd like to entertain suggestions, I'll be more than happy to tell you why they won't work.

[Levian]

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.

Yes, this. More interesting threads is always good. Not just that, but also interesting replies. That's what made EoFF fun and great and made me stick around when I got bored of discussing Final Fantasy.

and I'm assuming Mafia will eventually fully be moved to the Roleplaying Forum. Probably shouldn't be long now with the decline we're seeing.

[Rantz]

Let's turn the site into Eyes on Popular Music instead.

[Tama2]

How much actual traffic do we get on the front site anyway?

[LunarWeaver]

The community is also very within itself, newbies are probably clueless to all the in-jokes and such.

I obviously can't speak for every newbie, but this is how my brother felt when I told him to join. I'm not talking elitism, but more...he thought it was intimidating. He had a hard time assimilating himself, and many times he didn't know if someone was joking or being mean (not always to him, just in general).

But a lot of folks here have been friends for a long time, and thus will act like friends towards each other. It's not like it's anyone's fault or anything. What can ya do!

[Tavrobel]

How much actual traffic do we get on the front site anyway?

Very little, I assure you. I could attribute this to a lack of content update, a lack of news updates since July, and less and less people trying to get to the forums. Ohh, and ads. But those big giant, border/tables ruining eyesores totally are not the height of our worries. Never mind that they scare people away and annoy them. Never mind that they cause nothing but trouble. Never mind that we can't do jack about them because the owners won't listen to any e-mail that is not titled "I want to buy EoFF."

[Del Murder]

Well, then the obvious answer is to send them an email that is titled 'I want to buy EoFF' and then asks them to take down the ads.

[Psychotic]

Nobody needs a Final Fantasy site or a site dedicated to a gaming series anymore.

You play a game for a couple of weeks, you're done, you move on. No need to stick around. That's why you might as well just join GameFAQs or something similar.

Also hey look, this thread has been linked to already. Nice work Manus.

[Momiji]

And get rid of their goldmine of a money flow? Laughable.

[Marshall Banana]

EoFF needs Santa.

[Momiji]

EoFF needs Santa.

Let's start a campaign to mail WM milk and cookies as an offering?