/v/ - Video Games

That raid you're thinking of was, in fact, the last raid. The one in the DarkRP server, yeah? Fond memories. It's sad, though, considering that it probably won't work again. Coordination is awful now, coupled with the snail's pace of the board due to how long this place has been bleeding users thanks to someone's (whose name I won't mention) poor moderation. You'd need a miracle to get what we once had.

The real question which boggles my mind is: where did they all go? All of my fellow anonymous brothers from all of those gamenights and such. Did they move to /vg/? Another board? Another website? Back to 4chan? Or did they simply give up on imageboards and/or videogames altogether? It may sound selfish, but I don't want to think about any of those possibilities. Why do things have to be so shit? Ever since 2007, the decline began. Some may argue it started even before 2007.

Honestly, 4chan was supposed to be my home away from home, where like minded individuals could enjoy the highest level of freedom you could find anywhere else at the time. A place where you could watch the slow decline of vidya, a precious hobby we all shared, from the peanut gallery, bantering and giggling the whole time. Then the ones we already held with a degree of suspicion just had to take that away from us, so we found a new home. A promise was made, and we confided in our new overlords. A short-lived golden age was enjoyed by all, serving as a small respite for the recently-scarred /v/agabonds denied their homeland. Then a new wave of betrayal began. Changes were being made - changes far too adventurous for the small admin team. This prompted the promise to be broken, and we were once again backstabbed by the one we confided in. Now, under new management, we 'enjoy' a tentative peace, entailed not by progress but by decline - the worst kind of decline. For, if things continue as they do now, the site will not die with a bang, but with a whimper, as the last few posters decide that the devastatingly low PPH has become too large a burden to handle, and they take off to find a new website.

Around a year after the first exodus began, many of us worried about so-called D&C tactics being used. I dismissed them at the time, but now I can believe them. All I can say is that it worked. I just wanted to play vidya games with other social outcasts. Is that too much to ask?

>>15404569

Wow anon, you really took the words out my mouth.

It's true, 8chan used to be an actual community but now, it's just a decaying image board. After the infinity shitshow, 8chan getting hacked, hotwheels fucking off, it just feels so deflated now after showing so much promise.

4chan is like a 40yo has been that completely sold out and is doing pony tricks as an attempt to still remain relevant, while 8chan is like a an old dying mall.

I mean going through 8chan is like watching a Dan Bell video but for image boards. half of the boards are completely dead, and the ones that still an active user base are slowly dying off.

It's sad to say image boards are a dying breed, even 4chan is slowly dying.

>>15404405

Reminder that, if you are going to raid, use Op-sec so as to not lead people back home to shit at your dinner table.

>>15404569

Lurker since 2006 or so. Still around here, albeit at this point more out of habit and that everywhere else is worse. The games I play and would like to discuss aren't apt to be of interest to people at this point though, so even now it's mostly lurking and refreshing the catalog on the slim chance a vector for them shows up. It's sad what's happened over the years, both to cuckchan as well as hear between the exodus and now. It certainly feels as if there's either been a demographic shift, or a shift in topics (IE: games and series) that aren't considered played out already.

If you wish to see a mass grave, should the overchan still exist, sift through some of the imageboards they might have linked (assuming they haven't purged all the dead ones). Many western imageboards have existed over the years, and even if they had their moment of popularity, have fallen. As of now, I only know of cuckchan and here as far as decently populated ones go, and a handful of most-likely honeypot ones. There is no better option in terms of both community and moderation, but even that itself is sad. While the create-a-board style was meant to be a solution to at least the moderation problem, this site in itself has been an experiment in finding what benefits and flaws such a system has. And a number of these flaws (decay cycle, lack of visibility), combined with how legacy names work, mean that if you want to discuss a topic, chances are you're going to wind up at, or back on, one with the familiar name, because at some point quantity begins to outweigh quality (I will say I am surprised /animu/ has done as well for itself as it has, but /a/'s jannies and roomba are just that shit).

I do not know what greener pastures, if any, other oldfags have fucked off to over the years. If they have found some bastion of anonymous imageboard quality elsewhere, it is wise that they have not told, but I wouldn't be shocked if some have outgrown the medium. And I don't merely mean that in a "matured" sort of way, but more of a case where the era of imageboards they enjoyed is dead and gone, and they know those days are unlikely to return, between the changes to both imageboard culture and the internet as a whole. Ideally, some oldfag anon savvy enough with coding skills and money could take the lessons learned in the past and create the Promised Chan, but as things are, there would be a lot of challenges to trying to manage such. For now, I wait here, too addicted to imageboards as a medium for over a decade to go back to namefag forums, with too much pride to go back to cuckchan after all the shit that's happened, but increasingly jaded that things are not apt to get better at this point. And even if you pull the "be the change you want to see" stuff, you can only do as much as an individual can. If the bulk of the other people you share the pool with are content to piss and shit in it, even an attempt at a good change isn't going to go far.