>The average GameFAQs user is now a middle-aged uncGrim. Soon every legacy gaming website will turn into a digital retirement home.
For reference here is what the poll looked like 25 years ago. Wonder if /v/ is the same...
>>741396309yep, 2001 was when i first started using gayfags (i was 13)
>people... age with time!?>AAAIIIIEEEEE save me n-wordman!
>>741396519her tit's out...
From 25 thousand users in 2001 to 6 thousand in 2026
>>741396583anon failed biology class..
>>741396601The Internet used to feel way bigger prior to centralization. Part of that was because many forums just had more people using them on a casual basis. Part also comes from lurking being more common than ever before.
>>741396264Well yeah. GameFAQs is irrelevant these days because the retards in control are fucking retarded.
>>741396264nobody cares you retarded unc
>>741396718Yes, forums made the internet seem immense; you had a community in every corner, for every topic. Now you go on Twitter and you can't tell how many people are online, how many posts per minute, or which topics are active at the top of the thread list. It seems smaller despite the fact that there are 100 times more people.
>>741396264Tried to use gamefaqs for labyrinth of refrain the other day. Everything about the website had changed, there were three different pages for the same game because of the three different launches and none of the pages had anything. If it's like this for games that are only somewhat new and not gaas it's easy to see how gamefaqs has nothing to attract users nowadays
>>741396519Ideally you'd like to see young people replace the old, but from the graph it looks like at least for GameFAQs no one under 25 is using the site anymore. The cohort that grew up with GameFAQs continued to used GameFAQs but it failed to attract anyone younger.Where do Zoomers get there game guides? Youtube? I only ever used GameFAQs when I was playing JRPGs but nowadays they're so handholdy you don't even need an FAQ so I haven't visited in years. I think the last time I visited GameFAQs I was playing FFXI and looking up info over summerbreak around when chains of promathia came out.Also 25k votes -> 12k -> 6k is fucking grim. Its a ghost town over there, fucking yikes.
yeah it's over bros
>>741397174What stopped millennials from having kids?
>>741396836>>741396718Man I remember browsing battleon forums back then and getting giddy whenever a thread I was following would light up because it means it has new replies.
Is it just me or does it feel like every major platform these days has been visibly losing traffic over the past few years?
>>741396519>Two entire generations have been consumed almost entirely by social media algorithms, breaking any sort of connective chain of culture >This is fine.
>>741397313everything is centralized to discord and subreddits now.
>>741397313covid bump truly fizzled out, and my speculation is more people can "feel" how aggressive/anti-user a lot of sites and social media are and have just opted out entirely
Anyone who has sense has long abandoned the (((internet))) for the fediverse and the sooner you move the happier you'll be. Decentralized communities like back in the old days of the internet exist, but not on the internet boomers and gen-z use.
>>741397072>>741397350before you doom and gloom take a chill pillback when gamefaqs was big there didn't exist wikis, now those are plentiful for almost any given game
>>741396264Who the fuck uses GameFAQs in the year 2012+13
>>741397226Propaganda, I was told having kids was the worst thing I could do in my twenties, now I'm 33 and with no children
>>741397226In the 80s if you were a college graduate it was basically a free pass to be a doctor or lawyer or some other high paying job and you were probably doing lines of cocaine or fucking multiple high class prostitutes every night and you paid for that college tuition a few years ago by working a summer job. If you were a high school graduate it most likely meant you were working a 9-5 and got paid enough to buy a house and support a family of four with your stay at home wife along with multiple vacations per year.People just don't have enough money for that shit these days. College doesn't mean shit except putting you tens if not hundreds of thosuands of dollars in debt. Both parents working a full time job is barely enough to support a single kid.
>>741397470i use gamefaqs for the guides all the time. learned of an infinite route buried in simpsons road rage on there last year because i was too dogshit to beat the dam level legit with the "mad man" status, lol. stuff you won't find on youtube.never once posted on the forums, though.
>>741397438>and my speculation is more people can "feel" how aggressive/anti-user a lot of sites and social media are and have just opted out entirelyThe sad part is I can't tell if you're talking about this in the context of how the sites function or their userbases, shit's so fucked these days
>>741397072>Ideally you'd like to see young people replace the oldI thought this was considered a bad thing because of the amount of muh zoomers threads I've seen here for years
Gamefaqs is the first website I ever remember using when I was like 6 or 7 back in the 90s. I remember looking up a guide for Pokemon Red as I couldn't figure out where to get Surf.
>>741397628For 4chan sure, because this place has a gatekeeping mentality, but not so much for other public forums and websites.
>>741397562My man you can just use ChatGPT or Grok for its intended purpose and never have to deal with that retarded site structure ever again
>>741397226We can’t get laid
>>741396264This isn't unexpected at all. Who would want to sign up for a site with some of the worst moderators and most bitter userbase online?
>>741396264Nothing surprising unfortunately... The end of GameFAQs was bound to happen at some point.I'm even a little shocked the site is still maintained and not already part of the internet archive.It's basically a relic of the past now.Forums (outside of porn material) have died. Replaced by social media and discord servers. As well as Steam discussions and YT.GF was used for guides in an era of hard games with little knowledge around and barely any videos at the time.The site and the community helped me a lot for obscure game knowledge all from 2006 until circa 2015s when I stopped visiting.It's still one of the only places hosting some very very good written guides, for retro games.
>>741397923Reminder that the highest level moderator with the most power who wasn't an admin is an autist who wanted to be the user with the highest karma so he spent hundreds of dollars on GameFAQs shirts(years ago they ran a campaign where if you bought site merch you got free karma) and then banned the person who was still ahead of him for bogus reasons just so he could take the top spot. This same moderator was known for banning anyone who disagreed with him and it continued for years because the administration didn't give a fuck.
>>741396309>>741396397>>741396264>25k votes to 125k to 6kgamefacks...has...fallen....
>>741397072zoomers are illiterate and can't read, they only watch videos
>>741398591same shit as SA, NeoFAG, etcthin skinned tranny jannies take over, ban everybody, kill the site
A lot of data we know shows that Zoomers and Gen Alpha care a lot less about traditional console/PC games than every other generation. Whereas mobile gaming is growing leaps and bounds every year. With the industry reaching a cap on how much games they can sell, traditional gamers leaving the hobby due to old age, death, sickness, no free time or money and no younger people replacing them, we're just going to see a decline of what /v/ would call traditional "video games"
>>741396309>>741396264>people who were 15 in 2001 are 40 nowWoah... really makes you think.
>>741397760useless schizo ai that can't be used to even read a 12 item list properly without hallucinationsvs searching game name and clicking 1 thing
>>741398993certainly explains why 4chan feels so ESL these days *rimshot*
>>741399139There are good and bad sides to this, but mostly goodI will not elaborate
>>741397226it costs too fucking much. The median cost has gone WAY the fuck up adjusted for inflation, even, and buying power has gone way down. Good fucking luck affording literally anything>>741397517the most empowered, independent women I knew in college had MULTIPLE kids at 28 because they landed a rich husband. It's about money. It's ALWAYS about money.
>gamefaqs not gamefactsWhy did millennicucks always do this word play shit instead of just using the proper unirony names yall so cringe....
>>741401395It's not a trivia site you retard.
>>741401395The faq stands for frequently asked questions
>>741396718Everyone got funneled into shit like Discord and Twitter.These sites being bought out by bigger companies and sanitizing the fuck out of them also didn't help.
Which gives credence to the stats that video games aren't being adopted the same rate to gen z or alpha. Video games might just be a generation x or millennial thing.
>>741402010>Which gives credence to the stats that video games aren't being adopted the same rate to gen z or alpha.not helped by how retardedly expensive modern gaming is
>>741397226no hymen no diamond
>>741396264Zoomers>don't have money>are fewer in number due to fertility death and abortion (28% of zoomers were murdered by their mothers in the womb)>convinced each other that passion is cringe>convinced each other that any game older than 2 months is uncslop, trapping themselves into modern gaming hell, which started its decline in the early 2000s if we're being real, with nowadays being unfathomably worse than Deus Ex: Invisible WarIs it a mystery that the older audience that was the primary driving force of gaming culture and discourse 20 years ago are still dominant today?
>>741402010They are, Gen Z mostly play games on mobile and PC and discuss them on Twitter and Discord.A fucking Backrooms movie just came out and made bank retard.And that's besides stuff like the Mario and Sonic movie where Millennials take their Gen Alpha kids with them.
>>741398591Thanks to Fandom.
>>741401395>never heard of FAQ beforeNo one under 20 on this planet knows how to read anymore.
>>741402435All these legacy sites are now owned by big media companies.Is it any wonder no one is around anymore?
>tfw 32>still young in comparisonFEELS GOOD MAN OW MY BACK
>>741402574It's way past your bedtime unc
>>741397313Reminder.
>>741402349>Is it a mystery that the older audience that was the primary driving force of gaming culture and discourse 20 years ago are still dominant today?Isn't that a good thing?
>>741402574NiBBa I'm 33, we are considered ancient by anyone under 24
>>741397072Youtube videos and sites like ign. I should probably try to use gamefaqs more. If Im looking for the best weapons or something in games like cyberpunk I just click the first link that isnt a video. Idk why but videos stress me out if im trying to do something and prefer words and pictures.
4chan is a oyaji site now. Nothing will change that.
>>741402742No, these are the same "people" that popularized shit like COD, Halo, GTA and every other terrible business practice you see by giving all their money to AAA crap.
>>741402349>28% of zoomers were murdered by their mothers in the womband people say women deserve rights
>>741402723The % of internet users tells you a lot more interesting stuff than total users per country.
>>741402993The average man being able to vote was bad enough, women, average women at that, being able to vote was the worst thing to happen to the West since WW2.Fittingly universal women suffrage was legislated and started being enforced right around the same time as the creation of the state of Israel.
>>741403290in the US women vote the same as men of their race. white women all voted for trump even over hilary. muh based brown men is a meme
No shit?Almost like Gamefaqs stopped being relevant like 20 years ago.Younger people have youtube videos and endless wikis that go into autistic detail .
I think the last major stimulus of newfags was 2016, and they were probably college age
>>741403356Most abortions are done by niggers you blithering retard.
>>741396694he was joking you autist
>>741402349>(28% of zoomers were murdered by their mothers in the womb)don't you guys constantly bellyache about total zoomer death and shit like that
>>741403356I said men, not subuumans
>>741403598Anti Zoomers are dudebro retardsGen Z never had a chance and they're somehow less cancerous than the wigger gen that were millennials
>>741396309It's literally the same for everything and everywhere. Music, video games, movies, tv shows and media in general have been carried by millennials since forever. When it comes to the internets other than Tiktok all websites are majority millennials. Like 80% of something as niche as vtubing are millennials too. It's a bit scary to think about it but younger generation are either a whole completely different breed of people or maybe a good chunk of zoomers were never even born and we don't realize how serious the population crisis actually. Because there is a reason why governments have been importing 3rd worlders like crazy to white countries even against the will of citizens.
>>741403779>Promote contraceptives and abortion>Start importing browns due to the "population crisis"Pure coincidence!
>>741403743Wigger was a joke and an insult back then.Zoomers talk like niggers fr fr ong
I'm so glad I wasn't born a zoomer. I can't imagine anything worse.
>>741403908>Zoomers talk like niggers fr fr ongmaybe it's because of 4chan's current """""demographics""""" but whenever I see zoomerspeak here I always assume it's some ESL flailing around
>>741403908I sweat half you fuckwits didn't leave the house before you were 18>>741403910Being born a millennial is way worse, being part of the generation that popularized dudebros, wiggers and soibois along with "geek is chic" corporate indoctrination is way worse.
>>741396264>Soon every legacy gaming website will turn into a digital retirement home.Couch co-op coming back bros.>table top board games>split screen multiplayer >a homePretty much everything they took from you, its all coming back.
>>741396264>>7413963094chan is probably similar, i'd say slightly younger (early to mid 30s average)
>>741404118>a homeBoomers will be dead soon, you'll have a house soon enough
>>741403992>browns y bluddyI can hear the taco music coming from that post.
>30-45 year old demographic Not even surprised and not a big deal. I was using GameFAQ back when I was like 12 in 2004. I still sometimes look up walkthroughs of JRPG's if I want to attempt to 100% it or get all the stuff.
>>741404194>Boomers will be dead soon>all these different old people's diseases the medical industry is suddenly discovering cures to in recent yearsBoomers aren't going out without a fight.
>>741403992I am cracking up at how retarded that post is
>>741404118and you get to make zoomers clean up your poop
Roblox
>>741404917The way that US & Canada has nearly plateaued ever since 2020 and it's the international world picking up all the upswings really confirms a lot of things for me
>>741404917I legitimately don't even know what Roblox is. Is it basically Lego Garry's Mod with better scaffolding?
>>741396264already happened a long time ago. you think zoomers and alphababies are signing up for forums or mod sites and the like? they hang in discord. websites? they don't even click (tap, realistically) on search results in google, they only read the AI summary. websites are on their way out if you haven't noticed. given the choice between a slight bit of effort / friction and an inferior but smooth experience, younger people will always choose the latter. so that's where the market is moving. braindead one-track apps that only offer 1% of the cool stuff we enjoyed in the 2000s but in increasingly easier to digest form.
>>741405102Pretty muchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxbmuojBjh4
>>741397226Hoflation. Women aren't worth marring anymore. Feminism made them all "sexually liberated" narcissists and the internet gave them too many options and a massive FOMO on a "better" husband and life. More than half of all marriages end in divorce and women file for divorce in 80-90% of cases.
>>741404181Its going to be similar but it isn't yet. Imageboards in general attracted zoomers especially during game gate and 2016 election,, gen alpha will probably not be using imageboards
