The reaction is a reminder of of how divided the gaming community has become over the past three years. When Gamergate erupted in , NeoGAF was among the communities that firmly repudiated the "ethics in game journalism" crowd, aggressively banning accounts and locking pro-GG threads.
In taking a stand, NeoGAF became politicized, earning it enmity that has since bubbled back to the surface. Since then, these communities have been more or less at war. Indeed, when the accusations against Malka began to rise, some mods thought it was a GamerGate trick.
From Klepek's article:. Anti-GAF groups contend that NeoGAF's discourse was toxic; that the moderation staff was too trigger happy, and that the orthodoxy around certain subjects was too strong usually ones pertaining to social justice. Personally, GAF seemed to me to be the same as it ever was before its fall: a hype-oriented community that was useful for gaming news and title-specific megathreads, but put way too much stock in the ups and downs of Metacritic.
Like every other online community, it was prone to bouts of hysteria and a certain mob mentality, but its stricter membership requirements tended to keep the discourse reasonably civil. Its strict moderation was a product of it being one of gaming's oldest communities , as well as Gaming Age's original goal of elevating the discourse around games. It was founded in an era before Youtube and social media, when the Internet consisted of a host of small and exclusive communities that were often heavily moderated.
That it managed to remain influential made it something of a throwback, especially amid the growth of Reddit, Youtube, and Twitch. Its collapse is the epitaph for a different era of gaming, one dominated by traditional games journalism and large message boards like NeoGAF. The new Internet is much more decentralized, with discussions taking place on everything from Facebook to Reddit. Gamers have long since gotten used to saying whatever they want, wherever they want.
The old gatekeepers have increasingly fallen to the wayside amid the rise of "influencers. It's hard to say how the fallout from all of this will settle. Some have been trying to start their own message board. Even OpenCritic has gotten involved. Whatever happens, its apparent that one of gaming's longest standing communities has been scattered to the wind.
This is it: the biggest week of Fall Here are some of the most interesting games coming this week. This week will account for most of this season's biggest games, with only Call of Duty and Star Wars Battlefront 2 still to go. Personally, I'm still hooked on Etrian Odyssey 5 , but I might have to put it down soon to sample some of the bigger games. What are you planning on picking up?
Super Mario Bros 3 came to Japanese Famicoms on this day in I was in grade two, and the playground was abuzz about Mario's latest adventure.
Man, Japan seemed like such a faraway mystical place back then. If you missed the first two chapters of this discussion, you can catch up on part one here, and part two here. It was only natural that over the course of our lengthy chat about the ins-and-outs of running a site the size of NeoGAF that money would arise as a topic of conversation. It makes the world go round - as the saying goes - but it also, vitally, keeps websites online.
The same users who might visit four or five pages per visit on a site like VG might visit 20 or 30 pages per visit on a board like NeoGAF, and that is as much a hindrance as it is a help. With a ridiculous 70 million page views a month being dished out to some 2. For months the site struggled with advertising, and while its future is currently secured, its owner, Tyler Malka, still has concerns and difficulties in ensuring a constant flow of revenue.
We have probably one of the lowest click-through rates of any sort of website. These ads are simple, and will take pretty much anyone, from the smallest blogs to the most private forum, but at a cost compared to other advertisers.
Revenue grew with GAF, allowing the site to turn a profit for the first time. Even then, Malka had his sights set on replacing Google with a better-paying alternative.
If GAF continued to grow alongside flagging revenue, the site could once again be in the red. Any GAF member will be familiar with the dreaded Internal Server Error, and in order to keep on top of the costs of providing additional servers to manage additional load, a steady flow of revenue was needed. Technically speaking every single page on NeoGAF is user-generated, and this made many advertisers balk at the concept of signing a deal with the site, even though it could offer massive viewership and therefore good earnings for all parties involved.
While he found it frustrating, Malka admitted that he understands. It ends up being limiting in terms of what I can do. In two years, anything can happen. I want to keep NeoGAF completely free to use with minimalist advertisement. I do what I have to in order to facilitate that". Many large gaming sites such as Eurogamer or your very own VG sign more direct deals that result in more targeted advertising campaigns. By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies.
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