These forums started 20 somewhat years ago with a site called Gaming Age. They had a forum Gaming Age Forums (or simply just Forums connected to the gaming site itself) - GAF. That's where "GAF" comes from.
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ResetEra Ownership Update
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These forums started 20 somewhat years ago with a site called Gaming Age. They had a forum Gaming Age Forums (or simply just Forums connected to the gaming site itself) - GAF. That's where "GAF" comes from.
Didn't see this post before, just wanted to say this is a great recap of everything.
I'd like to know, too. Just in case if things went south.
Same here.
I go whichever way the wind blows but I do think it would be fun if everyone left and set up another forum just for the banter.
Yeah. The other website was big for well over a decade. I do remember he had expensive cars etc. I am sure the website way smaller today but I am sure he amassed enough wealth where even if the website went under he would be just fine if he invested his cash. So people posting about how he cares about any of this is funny. The guy is too busy living the high life to care about what a forum poster thinks.
Okay, so you mean that Gaming Age got sold? I guess I was confused by your use of GA(F).
well that's a sign the end is coming. i don't care what is said...you don't spend $4.5 million just to "keep the lights on". MOBA (or any other business) doesn't spend millions for nothing. They expect to see a profit so things will change. Maybe not now or in the immediate future but it'll come.
It's because they started off as a group that left GAF (before GAF blew up) and knew what they didn't want anymore. Sadly that same thing has been happening here with more and more groups leaving for discord.
You can enter a ticket, I did it the other day and they didn't fuggedaboutit
Yeah, exactly. Sorry for being unclear. So they got bought by Snowball (IGN), or maybe partnered - I don't remember all the details - it was a while ago. :)
What, is that real??yeah, ya think? there are ads out the ass if you don't use an adblocker on desktop. There's apparently a New World skin, there are banner ads at the top and bottom of every page, there are ads mid-thread, and there's a giant fucking footer begging you to subscribe to the ad-free site.
This is what it looks like for me:
The true litmus test for me will be how the wizard game (you know the one I'm thinking about) is going to be handled here.
Damn, that's a good point.
I always judged these people who post the shit on twitter of "TWITTER OWES ME $2400, What's your Twitter Account Value," stuff, but.... I'm gonna start making demands on value soon.
Of course jokes on me, my long posts just shit up the SEO of any thread and make it less relevant for advertisers.
Honestly I'm a little bit surprised by the negativity here. Like, okay, Resetera has a new owner. I highly doubt that things are gonna change much in the grand scheme of things and if they do then so be it
User Banned (Permanent): Trolling, history of severe infractions
1. Cancel Tyler.
2. Create a site full of his site's members.
3. Go even woker.
4. Sell all your assets and member information to a toxic MOBA Community investor.
5. Profit.
It's really pretty smart. Enjoy the shitty site everyone!
LET'S GO BRANDON!
2. Create a site full of his site's members.
3. Go even woker.
4. Sell all your assets and member information to a toxic MOBA Community investor.
5. Profit.
It's really pretty smart. Enjoy the shitty site everyone!
LET'S GO BRANDON!
That's the thing, I think from posts here we can see they don't care, and as mentioned a paid position has drastically different implications, responsibilities and even legal ramifications from a volunteer positions. People seem incredulous that mods aren't outraged at not getting paid like they didn't know exactly what they were signing up for
Like if mods want pay - and let's not even entertain Cerium giving them money, he's gone - this is their time to negotiate for it, but that's up to them
Feels like something we probably should've known lol, but we never got more than "ERA is an LLC"
Yeah everyone there loves him now. He probably isn't making much, but he still gets to make a living off posting on a forum where he gets treated like a king
I remember he made a post years before everything blew up which was basically him bragging about sexually assaulting a woman and when people called him out, the thread and the posters got erased. Not locked or deleted, just completely disappeared. I've seen it happen on Era too (i believe given reason was moved to a private forum for moderation)
at least discord doesn't shove ads down your throat
yes, I opened era in a private window so no extensions were enabled and I wasn't logged inWhat, is that real??
This is what it looks like for me:
I completely agree with this; GAF was certainly a lot more valuable and brought in a higher pay-cheque than ResetERA ever did, and but I think the underlined is overly cynical.
I think it's much more likely that the reality was that after having put 5+ years into a forum and playing a key role in shaping the community and driving the forum's growth (e.g. retaining minimal ad support even though more ads, such as what ResterERA has, would have brought in larger revenue, making strict moderation choices and sticking to growth-limiting policies [significant ban volumes, limiting membership], etc.), and building a collection of industry posters, he cared more about building upon that than selling it to a faceless corporation and killing the community which he'd built for a pay-cheque and completely checking-out. In terms of data alone, there's likely still far more value there than here (triple the membership count with a huge data mining opportunity in regards to 15+ years of historic posting data) even if the overall growth and activity is likely smaller than here.
I call dibs on exclusive ownership. Volunteer mods can run all the stuff as usual though.
That was going to be a point of contention regardless of the owner of the site.
I'd say you're doing God's work then 🤝 Era wouldn't be the same without your posts.
Right, changes will happen. It won't be immediate, but it's entirely likely the advertisements will really take over in time. IMO, it is what it is. I've had problems with the ads here before but for the most part they're less obtrusive than most other gaming forums or wikis that I stumble on. Like, when I search "where are red foxes in RDR online" and end up on a gaming forum or gaming wiki, it's just dominated with a thousand auto-playing ads or distractions, and so I assume this site will end up going in that direction over time.
I'm really impressed to read that the site generated $700,000 USD in ad revenue/year..... That's much higher than I was expecting. I was always expecting a sort of break-even on costs, and not knowing how much the developers are paid that might not be very much, but it's more than I was expecting.
As resident neolib capitalist, I've been working to take this shit down from the inside for years 😄
libERA, but unfortunately it was taken last April when Freenode was taken over by a new owner. Freenode was huge in the open source circle and there was a huge exodus.
I would not be shocked if we get Hogwarts threads under the new owners. That's too big an IP to miss out on.
Fuck this. Will be requesting account deletion. Cerium made out like a bandit Jesus. Some of the most opportunistic shit I've ever seen.
Gmail is fine. If it was one of those racist burner email domains out there I'd probably deny the request but that should be fine.
Were any of the site policies put forward towards the MOBA guys, like, are they still happy with the sites choice to ban talk of the upcoming Harry Potter game for example?
I'm just wondering if there are guarantees that the sites mods still have final say over those kind of things or if management can overrule them
I'm just wondering if there are guarantees that the sites mods still have final say over those kind of things or if management can overrule them
I just want an active cool place to discuss videogames without having to worry about my data and worrying about corporate deals for threads etc.
Is that so hard?
Is that so hard?
Several forums have been created since the exodus actually where posters here already posted them. And to be honest I seriously doubt a big number of posters will leave the forum because selling is not the same thing as finding out the owner is sexually assaulted someone.
With a business expecting a return on investment I cannot imagine them ever making a stand against such intellectual property again, and would not be surprised to see it become fair game for discussion, possibly 2077 coming back in time for a next gen re release. Thats a ton of engagement to profit from.
Would not be surprised.
It wasn't, but you knew which one I meant regardless :)
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