You call 2006 a join date ;p?Originally Posted by Laddy
You call 2006 a join date ;p?
yea we need a shiny web 3.0 interface where we sorta connect via our brains
I was pushing for matrix style head jacks but BoB thought they were to much
We still get over 100 users online every day. While that's only a quarter of what used to get back in 2005-2006, it's not shabby by any means considering the circumstances (lower popularity of the FF series, slower releases, etc).
We aren't the oldest Final Fantasy website, nor are we the oldest community, but I would say we have a strong claim to being the most consistently active staff/community/website of those that have been around as long as we have. The others, in case you're wondering, are FFOnline, FF Worlds Apart and thefinalfantasy.net - of those, the former two stopped updating a long time ago and while the other has been consistent by comparison, I am fairly certain that it has had a consistently lower activity level than we have had throughout that time.
Other websites, and perhaps this includes these three sites (I'm not 100% certain) can get much more activity through illegal hosting of files etc. which I know is done on various FF fansites throughout the web at the moment. We're a little more respectful of Square Enix. We did once host such files, a very, very long time ago, however we were asked to remove them and did so immediately. The upside of that is Square Enix actually communicate with us sometimes (although this is a much more recent thing).
As for the new site, I personally preferred the older (blue, not brown) site as it was faster to load and we had much more control over how it was displayed, but I understand web 2.0 is all the rage right now and apparently that's what is required for us to keep up with things. There are a lot of advantages, though, so once the owners can find a way to improve the speed the site runs at, I'm sure things will begin to improve in other areas.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
Yeah when I made that comment about the site looking dead I was mainly referring to the amount of posts that were being made and not so much how many people looked at the site.
I looked at the game sites and you can now go back virtually six months to a year on a lot of the game forums first page and it seems the only place that really gets posted on much anymore is general forum and perhaps EOEO.
But like others have said a lot of the people who are still keeping this place going are long time members who were big gamers in the hey day but perhaps not so much anymore so they aren't going to post on the game forums much anymore.
Are rpg's in general losing popularity amongst young teenage gamers or is it just the final fantasy series? Because video games in general are still becoming more popular all the time.
There are only so many R=U threads you can make.
Yeah it takes balls to be hard on the internet.You're harmless.
It's Square-Enix's fault that this site isn't as popular as it used to be because of the time between releases & the games themselves being total bollox since FFXII. I still regularly visit this site although I post not half as much as I used too.
Regarding posts, we are down to roughly a sixth or seventh of what we once had. We still, however, got 9,503 posts in March. Sadly, that shot down to 6,641 posts in April... which was the worst month we'd had for a while. Over the past six or so months, we have averaged around 8,000 or more posts per month. It's far from dead, that's for certain. But we do rely heavily on a target audience that is sadly in decline.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
April features final projects and exams. May features threads about how drunk the kids will get.
Signature by rubah. I think.
I promise I'll post more as soon as I'm done with school. I have my last final a week from today.
I have noticed that we're in a bit of a lull right now. Things will pick up again with summer and the Ciddies, I think.
I agree with a number of thoughts on here, s-e slowing down in releasing FFs def. could lead to less people posting. Also the last few FFs have not been as highly rated by fans as the classics (6,7,10).
As far as finalfantasy sites, I check this one and finalfantasyforums.net regularly. I have found they are the best way to stay up on s-e news (and rpg news).
Someone mentioned that rpg's might not be as popular anymore- I think that is true of console rpgs but it seems like mmo's are all the rage.
Of-course console ones are much more plot, story & character driven and that leads to more discussion too.
I will punch you in the face... with a chair.who are those people o_O
I can barely even remember HOW I found about this forum. It was like really late at night and I BELIEVE I was doing some research on FFXII international and there was a thread on it. I can't remember the finer details, and I may be completely off, but oh well.
I'm not that active, and I don't trout wisdom and wit in my posts, but I do enjoy the community this forum has.
I used to bounce around forum to forum like a really hyper obnoxious small dog, and get banned from countless ones due to various reasons.
It seems that most forums are either way too uptight, or are just complete and total anarchy, this forum seems to have a decent balance. DECENT.
Regardless, even if I'm not the least bit memorable as a member of this forum, I do intend to stick around for a while.
Eyyyyyyyyyyyyy
You've never been to our VIII forum, have you? We don't limit ourselves to just R=U.
This place has been "dying" as long as I can remember.
Don't worry everyone, EoFF won't be off the web until Paul and BoB are 80 year old men who've forgotten how to use a computer, until then it shall remain their personal circlejerk ground.
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