This has got to be one of the longest lasting fan sites on the web

[darkchrono]

But it looks like even EOFF is dying off. On a lot of the game forum pages you can go back six months to a year just on page one. The only forum page that seems to be that active is General (never looked at EOEO site) but you can still go back several weeks on page one on the general forum page.

This site has been around for over ten years but it looks like new final fantasy fans aren't coming in at the same rate that the old veterans of the site are either losing interest in the forum or games in general (or perhaps both).

I used to post a lot during the days of the original playstation (and parts of the ps2 era) but don't play games hardly at all anymore. Back in the day of ff7-10 though this was a hip and happening place and there were tons of active posters.

[Phoenix Rising]

We still have what, 20+ members on a day?

I'm not too sure this is one of the longest lasting fan sites though, I think the Emperor's Hammer has you beat, 1994 to present. And I think there is a Blade Runner fan site from the late 1980s that is still around, but I'm not entirely sure.

[darkchrono]

We still have what, 20+ members on a day?

I'm not too sure this is one of the longest lasting fan sites though, I think the Emperor's Hammer has you beat, 1994 to present. And I think there is a Blade Runner fan site from the late 1980s that is still around, but I'm not entirely sure.

Didn't think the world wide web even started until the early 90's.

[Phoenix Rising]

We still have what, 20+ members on a day?

I'm not too sure this is one of the longest lasting fan sites though, I think the Emperor's Hammer has you beat, 1994 to present. And I think there is a Blade Runner fan site from the late 1980s that is still around, but I'm not entirely sure.

Didn't think the world wide web even started until the early 90's.

The World Wide Web started in 1989, actually.

[Pike]

We've reached a point where a lot of people stick around for the community we've built up rather than for the games. Despite that, I'd still wager that we're one of the largest and most active FF forums on the internet (if not the largest; BoB probably knows all the stats and can confirm or deny this )

[Freya]

Not our fault the FF games aren't the powerhouses they use to be! We can't bring new fans into the series, that's Square-Enixs job. We just keep on being awesome and this place will survive.

[darkchrono]

Was there a point in which everyone had to re-register for some reason. For instance my register date says 2001 yet I clearly remember posting before that under the same name. This board was started around the time FF8 came out (which is why it is called Eyes on Final Fantasy).

[escobert]

yeah 2001 we all had to re-register once it switched from EZboard to VB

[Chris]

Like Freya said, we cannot be expected to do Square's job. Stop making crap games! It's as simple as that.

Also, I think the FF forums are fairly active. I can recall several good threads in the past month alone.

[Rostum]

I think it's more to do with the lack of Final Fantasy releases. Remember back in the PS1 and somewhat the PS2 era they had Final Fantasy games coming out the wazoo - I remember seeing FF9, 10 and 11 shown or announced at the same E3! Where's Versus? FFXIV was a let down, FFXIII-2 wasn't much of a big deal, and the FFVII spinoffs didn't make much of an impact.

If Square could get their reputation up, release more Final Fantasy games in shorter amounts of time, then you might possibly see more activity around here. Though, that's just my guess and from what I've heard that's what they plan on doing.

There's also the fact that social media has taking over from the forum-era of the Internet. I still consider EoFF to be active, but a lot of other forums I used to frequent are all but dead. Kind of makes me sad.

[Bubba]

Stop with all the negativity, maaaan!!

I've only been on this forum for nine months and it's no exaggeration to say that it's quite a big part of my life. While I'm sure there was a bigger following in the 7-10 heyday, it's still full of life in my opinion. Plenty of great newbies as well like shion, Trollhunter, Fierytempest and myself, of course!

Dying off Schmying off. EOFF forever!

[Parker]

This place was great until that trouthead Parker showed up

[Hollycat]

We seem to get most of our members from people playing ff8.

[darkchrono]

I think it's more to do with the lack of Final Fantasy releases. Remember back in the PS1 and somewhat the PS2 era they had Final Fantasy games coming out the wazoo - I remember seeing FF9, 10 and 11 shown or announced at the same E3! Where's Versus? FFXIV was a let down, FFXIII-2 wasn't much of a big deal, and the FFVII spinoffs didn't make much of an impact.

If Square could get their reputation up, release more Final Fantasy games in shorter amounts of time, then you might possibly see more activity around here. Though, that's just my guess and from what I've heard that's what they plan on doing.

There's also the fact that social media has taking over from the forum-era of the Internet. I still consider EoFF to be active, but a lot of other forums I used to frequent are all but dead. Kind of makes me sad.

That's true. Back in the day of the ps1 they were releasing about a new game every year. Now it takes them three or four years to release a new game.

Add to that a lot of the teenagers these days (which always seems to have been the primary rpg age group) probably never played the original playstation so they aren't as aware of the past history of final fantasy.

[Psychotic]

Apparently EoFF's been dying for the last 10 years. Somehow it's still here though