Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
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.
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.