User Feedback

[Nino]

Hey guys,

When we stroll through the comments section on our sites we really like what we see: active discussions with great insights from both sides of the fence and just a really active community. The amount of people commenting is pretty high and that's something we really appreciate and was something we always aimed for.

However, we noticed some complaints recently and want to discuss these with you guys: some people claim that this site has gone downhill, some people complain about the amount of news and that we're getting slow. Now the frontpage isn't the best place to have a good discussion so I want to invite each and everyone of you to give us your feedback here in this topic. Are we really that slow? Do you like our news? Do you like our writing and reporting style? Do you like the topics we post on?

We do our best to make this site the best games site there is and we really want to improve even further but we can't do that without your ideas and thoughts. So, what do we do next?

[trj156]

Personally, i check this site and gamespot once a day and read all the news on each. i like this site because of the usually more mature users and no real issues with moderations, which gamespot has more than enough of. i like the writing style, it's very no-nonsense-heres-your-friggin-news-to-the-point and i like that. it's also pretty funny due to some of the dirty jokes that normally wouldnt be on other sites. so i really like xboxic, its a shortcut thingy on my firefox bookmark bar.

[Sir SpankalotUK]

well.... my thoughts

slow, dont think so, your doing fine.

Would love my login on the forum to continue onto the frontpage comments. Think it would stop some of the flame wars, but then some of them are the highlight of my day.

[Cage]

Those complaints are based on nothing. Just childish comments if you ask me. The site has improved alot since I came here the first time back in January.

I also check xboxscoop.com since it's online and compared to all those feeds, yes xboxic is sometimes a bit slow. Especially because there's always a crewmember online, but I don't give a fuck about that. The news that should appear asap is showing up on this site as one of the first (new marketplace content etc.) The other news is nicely filtered for me and only relevant things appear on xboxic. And all of those are nice articles with some jokes and swearing added. Me likey likey

To say it in Dutch : Ga zo door.

[Chris]

Ga zo door my pants. Okay?

[Curry]

Originally Posted by Sir SpankalotUK

Would love my login on the forum to continue onto the frontpage comments. Think it would stop some of the flame wars, but then some of them are the highlight of my day.

I'm (slowly) working on letting the forum login continue on all the frontpages, but my strong preference would still be to keep it optional, so that people can still comment anonymously. I would add nick protection though, that people cannot use a nickname on the frontpage that is already registered on the forum.

Perhaps when I've done that I will also include email comment validation for anonymous users like Joystiq and 360FB have, that would probably eliminate some of the stupidest comments. Thing is that I like the anonymous comments very much and the low barrier they give to good discussions, and hell yeah we like a good flamewar now and then

[The_Glovner]

I like the fact that I can type cunty fucker donkey raping shit eater without anyone crying.

Also the news is fine (speed and quality), the flamewars are fun. Non nonsense approach to the writing as you may get with some larger affiliated groups. And enough blind PS3 fan boys to keep me entertained all day at work.

The site rocks and fuck everyone up the ass with a tyre iron that thinks otherwise.

[Sir SpankalotUK]

Originally Posted by The_Glovner

I like the fact that I can type cunty fucker donkey raping shit eater without anyone crying.

The site rocks and fuck everyone up the ass with a tyre iron that thinks otherwise.

[UKJAY]

Yeah again im on here once a day, news dont seem slow to me! This has the exact same forum layout as a website called www.digitalspy.co.uk so im familiar with it, but a better front page interface like Digital Spy would look sooooo much better

[Chris]

looks a little messy to me.

[Sir SpankalotUK]

change the layout of the front page and people will die

[Rival24]

Some people died when we from the blog-blog to our current layout...

[kobejonez]

If anything I'd say its improved, news is fast and articles are well written.
keep on keeping on.
Do the traffic stats indicate less or more visitors week on week?

[The_Glovner]

Originally Posted by Sir SpankalotUK

Why so sad Spanky?

[Chris]

We get more traffic than google every week.

[Rockaholica]

Hey, sorry if I started this shitstorm, I personally didn’t say its gone downhill leen was puttin his dirty dirty words in my mouth. I love this site I was just commenting that because I had seen the arcade stick news a couple days earlier. but I love this fuckin site it gets me through my work day ...I will submit news more often I did once and didn’t see any posts, and I figure if I’m seeing it then you guys must already have hundreds of submissions for the same news (people just love to see their names in the credit section)

[Phantom]

I've never understood this obsession people have with who gets the news out there quickest.
I check xboxic every day. It's my first port of call for all things 360 before I head off to the official xbox forum to see what the fanboys are dribbling about.
The reason I check out xboxic is because I like the crisp layout of the place and the simple fact that the news stories are usually relevant. I've never noticed whether the news is "late" or anything because I've stopped checking out other sites for news these days, got sick of the anti-Sony bullshit that was usually embedded along with the actual news.

I'll tell you what though, this forum is damn slow. I expected it to be much more active than it actually is.

[Chris]

You're right Phantom, start posting in threads more than one. 30 posts? Come on!

The more you add to the threads, the more feedback you get, the more active the place is. So start typing.

[kobejonez]

Originally Posted by Phantom

I'll tell you what though, this forum is damn slow. I expected it to be much more active than it actually is.

I've often thought that but again its improving.

[Nino]

Originally Posted by Rockaholica

Hey, sorry if I started this shitstorm, I personally didn’t say its gone downhill leen was puttin his dirty dirty words in my mouth. I love this site I was just commenting that because I had seen the arcade stick news a couple days earlier. but I love this fuckin site it gets me through my work day ...I will submit news more often I did once and didn’t see any posts, and I figure if I’m seeing it then you guys must already have hundreds of submissions for the same news (people just love to see their names in the credit section)

Hehe that's ok, thanks for joining the forums and putting in your 2cts, don't hesitate to submit, I'd rather see the same shit 5 times than that we miss out on something .


Thanks for the kind words all of you, we really appreciate it and it's good to hear that it's not as bad as some people portray it to be.

[Phantom]

Originally Posted by Chris

You're right Phantom, start posting in threads more than one. 30 posts? Come on!

The more you add to the threads, the more feedback you get, the more active the place is. So start typing.

Heh, well that just isn't the done thing, is it?
I'm a new member and general rule of thumb for forums is that a new member who comes in and posts here, there and everywhere pretty much gets his ass flamed.
But I'll post a bit more often in the future maybe.

[Nino]

We never flame people, especially not new members .

[Chris]

Yeah, we welcome new members.

Honestly.

[Zerodisorder]

Just look at the Glovner he was new in Aug, and posted till his fingers bled, and no one flamed him lol.

[Rival24]

Originally Posted by Zerodisorder

Just look at the Glovner he was new in Aug, and posted till his fingers bled, and no one flamed him lol.

Flame Glovny and you'll die.