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OMG SELLOUTS!Quote:
Originally Posted by Victrix
I wonder when the dumptruck full of 20's and 50's will be arriving at CJayC's house?
Anyways, it's a cheap plug but I'm sure 80-90% of the posters at Gamefaqs will be to busy being retarded to notice.
GameFAQs is now owned by CNet, so that dumptruck has been and gone.
But he deserves it, he's a good guy, very hard working, helped me out a bunch of times.
Gamefaqs has always been an invaluable resource (even with the evils of the message boards). Even now the ads aren't as obtrusive as IGN or Gamespot (flash popups, word from our sponsor, blech, etc). As long as I get my faqs I'm happy.
Eh, that's not too bad, especially when compared to the redone GC section that was up a few days ago.
how long until they charge a subscription fee to actually use the site?
The site is a high traffic site, so it doesn't surprise me that Cnet/Gamespot is putting ads on it. I seriously don't think they will start charging for work that really isn't theirs to begin with. You can't sell all those FAQs.
if they're going to charge for something (which i doubt,) it should be the game forums. a somethingawful-style one time fee would cut out a lot of the terrible.
CJayC said that was part of the agreement, that they would never charge for access...I'm sure there is a loophole though. But it would be a huge issue for them to charge an access fee for FAQs that do not belong to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dustin
I know PHP enough now that I could program a Gamefaqs.com type site.
It would take a while because well, that's a lot of database calling but one reason Gamefaqs.com is so big is because it's never had any real competition....
Which is great for it as a resource but that also means they get all the idiots. Their boards are horrific to say the least.
If they start charging, someone will replace them.
What ads?
http://www.proxomitron.info/
Gamefaqs game info/faq/review/etc pages = same type of system I have on TNL for headlines. :cool:
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There also the ones responsible for voting for Episode 1 and 2.Quote:
Originally Posted by pixelassassin
If I want info on some obscure game, I sure as hell don't look here. Gamefaqs is a great resource for that alone. I was just reading up on Evangelion 2, which sounds amazing, but a translated version (ie one I could play well) seems doubtful.
Download.com is still free. Why would they charge for GameFAQs?
they won't because A) The content supplied is not their own property, it's the property of their members and B) Most people that visit that site will not want to pay to have something they were getting for free.
CJayC has mentioned that bandwidth is bad, but because the site has like 1 or 2 images to call up that it's not as bad as you'd think. I personally don't mind popups on a site like Gamefaqs which supplies information I think is valuable. IGN is a news site first, and a news site should not have pop-ups over their content. That and I don't think that their content is good enough to be payed for. (kind of like what Penny Arcade said about EA's online system.)
I think, though, that it just comes down to the members of Gamefaqs being too young to be able to pay. Look at the IGN and Gamespy announcement. They get 22 million unique visitors a MONTH and only have 124,000 or so members on insider? That's a terrible ratio. That's still like 6 - 8 million a year if everybody pays the 60 bucks a year or whatnot, but it's still a terrible ratio.
I don't even know what i'm talking about anymore...
How many unique visitors does GameFaqs have? If they charged $1 a year, they could EASILY get at least 124,000 people to pay that, and it would at least take a chunk out of their hosting costs. $1 a year is close enough to $0 a year that most people wouldn't flinch at paying it, and it would at least be some help financially.
Except for the fact that people have to actually do something to pay $1 a year, and that something usually involves a credit card. While to pay nothing means to do nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by shidoshi
That, and there's no way that if they were going to charge that they'd make it so cheap.
As long as GameFaqs continues to be free in terms of access to walkthroughs/maps, I'd be willing to bear even the 'Shock the Monkey' ad.
...Of course, Norton Internet Security turns the ad into one big chunk of black so my point is somewhat moot. :P
OMG HOW DARE THEY RUN AN ADDDDDDD ITS A SELLOUT SOON IT WILL BE HORRIBLE! HOW DARE CJAYC EAT FOOD AND PAY FOR HOUSING GIVEN HOW MUCH WORK HE PUTS INTO THE SITE BLARGH SNARFLE FART
... sorry, just had to get that out of my system.
seriously, someone paying for the polls might improve them. they usually hurt me. =)
GAMEFAQ$
=D
i really hope that catches on.
CheatCC.comQuote:
Originally Posted by pixelassassin
faqs.IGN.com
~ww.neoseeker.com
~ww.fbgames.com [DEAD - now a Online Casio so don't click]
cheatcodes.com
The main reason GameFAQs is big is because it grew organically. CJayC wrote FAQs for Usenet, CJayC made a FAQ archive in AOL, CJayC bought a domain and programmed a professional site, etc.. etc... it grew in small steps, not one giant leap.
Most of the copycat sites when they are starting up:
1. Use spiders to crawl for FAQs, CJC PWNS them in 2.0 seconds.
or
2. Download FAQs manually but don't ask permission from writers, the writers usually on-mass email the domains network provider with "copyright infringement" notices and they get PWNED.
or
3. They use mass mailing to get permission from writers.
The worst thing you can do is get the people that write your content off side. IGN were smart, because they gave the writers incentives from the get go. I felt obligated to send them updates because they sent me Final Fantasy Tactics and Animal Crossing.
I'll vouch for copycat sites stealing FAQs without asking permission, despite warnings being in there about doing it. FBGames was nice while it was around, although they were far too lax about what they would accept.
It's God's way of punishing everyone for using IE.
There's a difference between having a sponsored poll and having your entire webpage littered with greasy breakfast sandwiches.
this is off topic but ive been meaning to ask
Chao what is that from thats in your sig?
If they're gonna charge, I want a fucking cut for the Herzog Zwei FAQ I wrote.
Yeah, an 18kb guide on semi-obscure game, I'm sure it's raking in the hits :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by diffusionx
CheatCC.com
faqs.IGN.com
~ww.neoseeker.com
~ww.fbgames.com [DEAD - now a Online Casio so don't click]
cheatcodes.com
All these sites are NOT the same. Seriously, GameFAQ's is the only database driven site I have come to know. One where users can submit something via a form, have it go into a queue and then have an authorized user allow it to pass to the database.
The other sites do not have this. They have the manual process and that is the worst way to go nowadays.
Personally CJayC's choice of ASP over PHP is kind of odd, but hey, they are very similar. I just don't like that whole supposed fee you are supposed to pay for every site you use ASP on (it's like 500US)...
As it stands GameFAQ's cannot charge for work they didn't do. If they change their submittion agreement to them becoming property of the site, then they could but then they wouldn't have as many FAQ's most likely.
All I'm saying is, GameFAQ's is big for a reason. I'd love to look at the coding for that site... but hey, I'm pretty sure I've already got it mostly figured out.
Heh. Grave asked the same thing in another topic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv
It's the chest-hair afro dancing scene from Jungle Wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu, my favorite anime of all time. It has, unfortunately, not gotten any sort of localization yet, but I'm hoping someone'll pick it up someday...
For now, it's all over BitTorrent
it is was one of the unholy triumvirate, consisting of guu, flcl, and excel saga
none were meant to be watched by mortal man
Holy crap! Those're three of my favorites right there! Well, those and Abenobashi Mahou Shotengai...
You have been marked for termination sir, as you are clearly not a member of the human race, but rather, an unholy construct sent to destroy all sanity on this planet
are the ones all over bit torrent subtitled?
Yep.
Guu hasn't been lisenced yet.
Oh, and TV first, OVA later.
snicker
doing a search for Gothic and this comes up
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shit, thats exactly why I visit gamefaqs!
I don't know if anyone has said it yet, but wouldn't that break the user agreement on the games the faqs are being written about, making money with adds?Quote:
Originally Posted by Videodrone
Depending on what CNET does, there's amusing potential for a giant lawsuit at some point.
And I wouldn't be surprised to see it ending with CNET hanging onto every written piece of work on there, hundreds of thousands of man hours of unpaid work, copyright, and submitted in the belief it would be free.
I could be wrong. I hope I'm wrong :P
Mostly, it will probably just be a continual creep of stupid ass advertising and embedded bullshit (check the Gamecube place and some of the forums - many are now 'brought to you by such and such' - which is a load of horseshit. Gamefaqs is brought to you by the people who wrote the faqs. That's ALL the place is.
What he should have done was posted bandwidth fees and let people pay THOSE. Particularly for the boards, which likely suck as much or more bandwidth than the faqs, given their insane usage.
I'd say he got a fat check from CNET, but if that's the case, why is he still the only one working on it? Why wouldn't he just take the money and run?
I dunno. Doesn't make a lot of sense.