If Gamespot Folds, Where Would You Go?

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So after that large group of GS writers got laid off, plus the continued disregard for forumnites and their suggestion to make this place suck less; It got me seriously thinking about a topic I give some thought from time to time (I know, so sad): What if Gamespot went down forever? What would me and other users do then?

• Some would move on to Giant Bomb, IGN, The Daily Happening ect.
• Some would be "liberated" from GS and maybe would simply move to a new phase in their lives were they don't interact via forums any more.

Now, to make clear it nothing would give me more pleasure than, lets say, they guys on Giant Bomb take over editorial/review duties on Gamespot and for near full implementation of members forum features suggestions so GS can be a vibrant, industry leading website again. But I ain't blind and sometimes things can go awry pretty fast.

So with all that said, OT what would you do if Gamespot.com went away?

I think I would go to Giant Bomb seeing how I already got an account there plus the fact that GB feels in some way like the spiritual successor to GS. Would need to adapt myself to the delicate flower environment sprung over there, but it is what it is.

Well Master_Live, I left IGN 3 years ago and never look back. I hated that place, but that's another story. I also go to Game Revolution [gamerevolution.com] before joining Gamespot, Game Revolution is a nice place to get good info on games but the community is small and then I join GS. If GS were to went away, I'll just go back to my hometown aka Game Revolution and that's that.

Futuremark. Haven't been to those forums in years because people wouldn't leave me alone about the Greg_ValveOLS incident, but if GS folds I'd probably end up there again.

Probably IGN, never been on there but now I like visiting a gaming forum I would not stop if gamespot folded.

IGN ip banned me from their forums. Don't know why. never posted there.

OT: I think I would go to rps.

God forbid I should go back to Sherdog.com forums. I almost never talk Games on the Gamespot forums anymore...I just use the OT as the occasional distraction during the work day. System Wars is a veritable asylum and the other forums on GS are stagnant.

Probably GameFAQs. I'm on there more than I'm on here anyways.

Would probably stop interacting in forums all together. This is the only forum I have ever been a part of.

Go to Giantbomb? Giantbomb is gamespot and gamespot is Giantbomb, so if CBS decides to close down the gamespot domain, which would be insane since it draws in a hell of a lot more traffic then Giantbomb.com does. I would probably go hang out with the strange people at neogaf and their messed up forum structure.

But Gamespot won't shut down, at least not for the foreseeable future, they might change a lot of staff which in reality is just going back to the previous staff before Tom, Carolyn (partly) and most of the current came in, which can never be bad because those were the ones that made Gamespot popular and with the addition of Patrick Klepek and 2 new, it doesnt look like Gamespot is going anywhere.

I just wouldn't come here. Continue to go elsewhere like I do now

Nowhere. This is the only forum I post in.

Ive tried other forums, but they were either dead or have the same topics like waylt, what did you eat and stuff like than. Kinda like unions. No real discussion happens and it get boring fast.

Id probly just spend more time over at 4chan.

So you would go from gamespot to gamespot :)

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Never heard of Giantbomb but I don't read game sites often as they are more hype machines than anything else.This forum is the last on my list of several forums I visit and the most recent and could really care less if any one of them failed because it's the internet, there's never a shortage of forums, especially when you have several hobbies, not just gaming.

There's a lot of other small changes all over the place as well.

neogaf

This is the only gaming forums I post in, so I would probably just stop posting about games altogether. I also post at Badger & Blade, but that is a shaving forum. I have a Neogaf account, but have yet to bring myself to want to post on that site. I guess I would work my way through my games that much faster.

Probably Giant Bomb, maybe other places.

I don't know for sure, I like discussing politics and facebook is terrible for that seeing as how far too many feelings get hurt. The anonymity of a forum means not having to deal with that shit like that in real life. Perhaps Giant Bomb or IGN, I technically have accounts on both yet hardly visit either place. The only other place I can think of political discussion is news article comment sections, but those places tend to be more about insults than actual discussion.

Perhaps The Daily Happening if that place picked up speed a bit.

Do you still have the link for that place? I was contemplating going there while I was suspended for flagging too many spam posts.

yeah I just googled it actually. I haven't been there in about a year or so, but it doesn't look like much happens there anymore.

http://s4.zetaboards.com/The_Daily_Happening/index/

Figures. Sometimes it was fun to post there, but a lot of the time it was an exercise in emotional masochism.

1 Neogaf

2 Giantbomb

I already have accounts on both sites. I really only come here first out of habit. I actually prefer the less "trollish" communities those sites have.

Au contraire

we just got our jand back

spam levels are at an all time high

Probably nowhere.

I'm on GAF way more than Gamespot now.

Too bad you need a paid e-mail account for GAF, else I'd have signed up.

You don't have one from your ISP?

Not one I've set up, no.

Yet you are here. :|

With that said, GiantBomb is where I would go - if GameSpot somehow folds (doubt it - it's the seventh-highest ranking video-game-related site on Alexa).

By the way, can anyone give me a list of who was laid off? I only know the following:

• Maxwell McGee
• Tom McShea
• Carolyn Petit

UPDATE: Turns out there are a lot of people laid off - including even Ryan MacDonald, the GameSpot staffer with the longest tenure.

If? GameSpot has already failed man. No one comes here, you post and then come back in 2-3 days to check responses. Total weaksauce.

No sympathy for self inflicted wounds. 500 Posts to start a topic? No thanks, I'll just go somewhere else.

whats happened to daves place and TDH ?

IGN , Gaintbomb

I would try and find some new forums.

I actually need some more forums in general if I am going to try and start up a youtube channel. Need to get myself out there somehow...

gamefaq

Your house

I already comment on a lot of IGN articles. Would probably just join their forums.

neogaf, bro.

I was on IGN a long time, they had great boards at one time. I miss those boards....crap now though.

Giantbomb, maybe. Other than that, I'd probably just stop going to forums altogether. Like a lot of others, this is the only forum I'm a part of. I'm not here as much as I used to but I'd be kinda sad if it completely died, as it's one of the only places where I can talk in depth about movies, games, etc. that the people I know in real life couldn't give two shits about.

I do not expect it fail, but I do have an account on Freedom: Community Gaming Collective anyway. I also have a GiantBomb account and I could post there more.

For forums? Nowhere. For game info? Any website with a game list and release date will do...I don't really care for reviews...I think watching a YouTube gameplay video is 100 times better than watching a review.

They just wanted to mess with OCD people by putting it off-centered =P

Eurogamer and GameFAQs probably. Or buy an email address and join neoGAF.

Eh, nothing would really change.

I already spend most of my time watching others shitpost on /mlp/.

I'd prolly just spend more time on youporn...