Despite the novelty of allowing gamers who share similar interests to form online unions, I find that this feature of the GameSpot website is underused. For instance, I recently joined three different unions and not one of them has been recently updated. (In fact, one of them has been without an update for over 1 ½ years!) I assume the reason for this is that the unions do not offer anything greater than the general discussion boards available on this site and that there is no real way to capitalize on the sense of community offered by the unions beyond simply stating one's affiliation to some of them. If there was something extra added to differentiate unions from the regular discussion boards and someway players could take advantage of their union memberships, then I think this feature would be more widely used.