fsped09 | 223 Moderator · Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 I too was sad to see the way NA was snuffed out. This was why VGS was created. There was a lot of things going on behind the scenes and the mods/admins were just left out to dry. We asked tons of questions, made some basics requests, we all provided feedback on how the new NA could be better. Given the way it looks, all that fell on deaf ears. I was positive it was going to be NA v2, not GoCollect forums. But this is in line with GoCollect's vision, which is totally fine, thats their brand and they're looking for a single pane of glass. Its just really sad. I hope that any of the NA folks that thought we (admin/mods) were simply casting gloom and doom can understand that our comments and actions we legitimate. We weren't being negative, we saw the writing on the walls and we took action. We all love NA. We wouldn't have been there (and now here) for that long if we didn't. My 2¢ 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpa | 3,501 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 They did say that this was kind of a placeholder and a better forum is in the works, but this has to be turning off anyone logging in so far. Not to mention all the new people finding it. It's also not on GoCollect's home page, that I can see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,105 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 It's still crazy the next day to see that NA has basically been wiped off the face of the earth and turned into a video games subforum of GoCollect. I think almost everyone expected it to die off, but I don't know if anyone predicted nuclear annihilation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightowljrm | 72 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 It just occurred to me now that I've slept on it: Y'know how EA buys studios, milks them dry, then throws them away? This is the retrogaming/collecting equivalent. It's soulless and corporate. We knew that already, but I think the comparison to EA is fairly accurate, only with EA it takes years for them to nuke a studio, it took GoCollect only months to do the same to NA. I think the staff here deserve another shout-out for giving us a place to go to so quickly. Thanks again! 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsped09 | 223 Moderator · Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 38 minutes ago, Nightowljrm said: It just occurred to me now that I've slept on it: Y'know how EA buys studios, milks them dry, then throws them away? This is the retrogaming/collecting equivalent. It's soulless and corporate. We knew that already, but I think the comparison to EA is fairly accurate, only with EA it takes years for them to nuke a studio, it took GoCollect only months to do the same to NA. I think the staff here deserve another shout-out for giving us a place to go to so quickly. Thanks again! I think this has been mentioned a few times, GoCollect was pretty clear that the purchase was DB focused. Its not too surprising that they went this route. To your point its more corporate than anything else. The soulless part is how they're treating the members. Very sad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boosted52405 | 178 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 WOW! This is INSANE - I guess I didn't realize they were going to get rid of "NintendoAge". Here I have been cautiously defending "business decisions" but NA has a legacy they are just flushing down the trash - wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abelardo | 154 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 RIP NA In all fairness, the clock was ticking and on Oct 30 the lights were going out regardless of sale or not, if it weren't sold it would probably be lost for good, at least GoCollect made the effort to archive it so I'd give them that. Having said that seems a bit unfortunate that GoCollect view on the hobby is basically collectibles as investments, I've been collecting video games for a while now and my primary motivation is that I like games and collecting was fun, I never purchased any video game thinking it was an investment, I always looked for good deals, stuff priced under market value, those are always solid purchases, instant profit basically, no speculation whatsoever, purchasing collectibles at market value to speculate just doesn't seem like a fun thing to do, to me at least. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br81zad | 629 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 3 hours ago, RH said: There is a small chance/argument to be made that the discussions facilitating this site brought about the NA changes. Well, they might have at least expedited them. Chicken or egg? Nah, we had nothing to do with their servers shutting down. Furthermore, we had pleaded with them for months to make the necessary changes to NA to PREVENT that sort of thing from happening to the site, and they either told us "no", or ignored us. What happened to NA is entirely on them. We didn't affect their timeline at all. They could have been better prepared, or planned for a better transition, but they chose not to. We waited as long as we could afford before giving up on GoCollect and NA. But if we had truly known how shitty GoCollect's plans for NA were, we'd have began work on VGS even sooner, and had this place polished up a little more before going live. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoTwizer | 123 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Nintendoage was my game collecting home for nearly 10 years. Sad to see it go away, lots of great memories and discussion there. Guess the cart competitions and secret Santa were some of my favorite things. The gaming competitions were also great! I guess some of the content lives on in a Frankenstein gocollect sort of way, but the name is gone and it looks like the vast vast majority of the community went with it. RIP Nintnedoage. Thanks to videogamesage who saw the writing on the wall and was able to give us Nintendoagers a new home. Now time to work on converting some of my old informational threads to live on here. 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Br81zad | 629 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 52 minutes ago, Abelardo said: RIP NA In all fairness, the clock was ticking and on Oct 30 the lights were going out regardless of sale or not, if it weren't sold it would probably be lost for good, at least GoCollect made the effort to archive it so I'd give them that. You're giving them WAY too much credit... A group of current VGS staff made every effort to pry NA from GoCollect's souless hands. Our intent being to archive/port NA the right way and maintain it as a standalone forum. Don't give them ANY credit for holding NA hostage and ensuring that it dies in a subsection of the GoCollect site... They killed the site. It didn't have to die. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentlegamer | 174 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 2 hours ago, Nightowljrm said: It just occurred to me now that I've slept on it: Y'know how EA buys studios, milks them dry, then throws them away? This is the retrogaming/collecting equivalent. It's soulless and corporate. We knew that already, but I think the comparison to EA is fairly accurate, only with EA it takes years for them to nuke a studio, it took GoCollect only months to do the same to NA. I think the staff here deserve another shout-out for giving us a place to go to so quickly. Thanks again! 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psychobear85 | 141 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Hahaha I managed to get banned again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abelardo | 154 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 10 minutes ago, Br81zad said: You're giving them WAY too much credit... A group of current VGS staff made every effort to pry NA from GoCollect's souless hands. Our intent being to archive/port NA the right way and maintain it as a standalone forum. Don't give them ANY credit for holding NA hostage and seeing to it that dies in a subsection of the GoCollect site... They killed the site. It didn't have to die. I might be giving too much credit, GoCollect handled it so poorly that I wasn't expecting to have anything archived at all, anyways as you said they've pretty much killed the site, glad the community is here in VGS so seeing NA die doesn't feel as tragic as I thought it would be. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstralSoul | 502 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 RIP the Joel thread 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secret Santa | 270 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Whew! Made it out just in time. 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,712 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 4 minutes ago, AstralSoul13 said: RIP the Joel thread Fuck the Joel thread. Stupid never ending beat a dead horse into the ground jokes without a punch line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsped09 | 223 Moderator · Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 20 minutes ago, Bear85 said: I managed to get banned again Why are you trying to stir things up? Theres no need for stuff like that. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,712 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 As nice as it might be for Pat and this community to make peace, I kind of doubt he would be interested in posting here. He runs his own world now. But I thank him for mentioning VGS. Maybe some of his fans will check us out and join. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quaze | 342 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 I knew it. RIP NintendoAge, goodnight sweet prince. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quaze | 342 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 5 minutes ago, Link said: Fuck the Joel thread. Stupid never ending beat a dead horse into the ground jokes without a punch line. Word ^ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpa | 3,501 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 13 minutes ago, fsped09 said: Why are you trying to stir things up? Theres no need for stuff like that. Seriously. As tempting as it is to shitpost in a disaster of a forum, we're supposed to be putting all that behind us now. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psychobear85 | 141 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 (edited) 16 minutes ago, fsped09 said: Why are you trying to stir things up? Theres no need for stuff like that. Exactly stir what up? I’m trying to get perma banned so I can’t log back in. It’s pretty obvious there’s not much to be stirred on my part anymore P.S. all the stirring up was done already when it was decided to branch out Edited October 31, 2019 by Bear85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 1 minute ago, Bear85 said: Exactly stir what up? I’m trying to get perma banned so I can’t log back in. It’s pretty obvious there’s not much to be stirred on my part anymore So just don't log in? That approach has worked well for me. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuNKeY | 241 Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 2 minutes ago, Bear85 said: Exactly stir what up? I’m trying to get perma banned so I can’t log back in. It’s pretty obvious there’s not much to be stirred on my part anymore Seems a bit senseless to me, not all that difficult to just walk away if you don't wish to be a part of the place instead of making a scene. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsped09 | 223 Moderator · Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 1 minute ago, Bear85 said: Exactly stir what up? I’m trying to get perma banned so I can’t log back in. It’s pretty obvious there’s not much to be stirred on my part anymore Come on, have some self control. The fact that you're "trying to get perma banned" is in fact the part that you're stirring up. If you don't want to be a part of that forum, just don't go there. Its way easier to avoid the site, than ensure that you're account is blocked. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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