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I will post more details, including a FAQ in the next couple days.
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IGN's Tech Board is found here...
http://www.ign.com/boards/forums/tech-board.5124/
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board merge? o.O are all the vnboards going away or just this one?
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All but a handful of high traffic boards.
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I'd be interested in seeing the stats of how many people switch to IGN and how many just leave the site entirely. 
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Tai-Daishar_MT posted:
All but a handful of high traffic boards.
which ones are not being moved?
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This is NOT the official list as I am not remotely in a position to have any influence whatsoever in this area. I would guess the Boards nearly certain to merge would be;
ACF
Outpost
Ywain
AC:DT
They seem to generate enough traffic to warrant it. Past that, I would think they may try to combine server boards from a few popular (here anyway) games (AC and DAoC) into a generic forum for each game. After that, I am guessing the rest get nuked.
Again, this is nothing more than my personal observations and is not remotely to be considered official.
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It seems the way of the world at the moment to "improve" everything people like by turning it into crap, in search of an extra few pennies from eg cross-sales (which never materialise). I'm coping with that at the moment on Massively (no logging in to comment through their own account setup, you now need a third party social media account to log in) as well as domestically in the UK with the new recipe for Flora, formerly the country's leading margerine brand and which now tastes and smells so disgusting that people are no longer using it. Don't even get me started on SOE's discarding of its European customers.
Ah well, it was fun here while it lasted. My thanks to all for their company and my best wishes for their future. I won't be moving across to a grossly inferior site. Thanks also to Mithan, the rest of the board staff and the Mods for taking care of us.
Just looking at the post count of the few in this thread makes one realise how much an awful lot of people are going to miss these boards.
Does anyone know of a similar setup to VN that we could all descend on and take over?
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I just wanted to say you guys are awesome and I will miss you when it comes to the Technical stuff.
I really wish they had just ignored us and left us alone to do whatever we do.
This sucks.
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I was pretty proud of my 9k posts over ~10yrs of being here. i was a lurker since 00-01 and then finally registered in 02 for DAoC. I hope the Kay board doesn't go away, since I know a lot of people do check it from time to time, even if they don't post.
sigh 
i'd guess that 7-8k of my 9k posts have been to this board. it will be missed.
but, i guess, all things must come to an end, or at least be transformed to something else. maybe the new ign hardware/tech support forum will be just as good as this one is (was).
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Sad to see the boards go. I wish they would merge the accounts of those who have them on both side thought.
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I wish they would merge the accounts of those who have them on both side thought.
There was a merger along time ago that caused me to have the login name I have now and lose my previous post count.
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I guess I dont understand
I just visited the Tech board and the latest posting is Mar 13
They, the powers that be, are going to nuke this board that has traffic every day for a board that has traffice once a month. ???
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Greybear1andonly posted:
Luryn posted:
I wish they would merge the accounts of those who have them on both side thought.
There was a merger along time ago that caused me to have the login name I have now and lose my previous post count.
Once upon a time this account was just named "jurojin" and had around 1100 posts. Then it was vn_jurojin and had 0 posts because of that merger.
As for the merger, I'm surprised they aren't keeping this board, it gets decent traffic even though it's not hammered.
*edit* And if Ravyn isn't in charge of that board then I want nothing to do with it.
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Tai-Daishar_MT posted:
AC:DT
Haha not sure the people from Darktide will appreciate it when the moderation from IGN reviews their posts... 
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I will check the new board out when the merge happens. I hope I see familiar "faces" there. Maybe we can recreate our current board at the new place.
I do like the friendliness of everybody here, and would hate to lose it to a board full of troll and 13 year olds with hissy fits.
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Hope to see you all in our new home.
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Oh my god - their avatars SUCK! And it won't let me upload my dragon... probably have some requirement to "level up" your account first... not that it explains that anywhere of course.
Well... looks like it will take some getting used to.
And yes - the post count is reset to 0.
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Does not seem promising.
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I'm really not looking forward to this.
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This sucks, I used to post on IGN, their mods and policies are beyond strict for a gaming web site. This is not going to end well for all these communities on VN.
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I'm really not looking forward to this.
Likewise here. I get a headache whenever I go there.
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Stop reading ign board when 9/10 users had names including pokemon in their users.
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Mortalis3 posted:
I guess I dont understand
I just visited the Tech board and the latest posting is Mar 13
They, the powers that be, are going to nuke this board that has traffic every day for a board that has traffice once a month. ???
It has posts from yesterday. Though it is slower than this one.
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vn_jurojin posted:
Once upon a time this account was just named "jurojin" and had around 1100 posts. Then it was vn_jurojin and had 0 posts because of that merger.
As for the merger, I'm surprised they aren't keeping this board, it gets decent traffic even though it's not hammered.
*edit* And if Ravyn isn't in charge of that board then I want nothing to do with it.
I haven't been asked to moderate (think they have moderators over there already). But I'll be hanging out there... so long as I don't end up talking to myself, I've been told that's not healthy.
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carnesaur posted:
Stop reading ign board when 9/10 users had names including pokemon in their users.
Doesn't your name fit with them perfectly?
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Palvati posted:
carnesaur posted:
Stop reading ign board when 9/10 users had names including pokemon in their users.
Doesn't your name fit with them perfectly?
Bahahahaha!
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Looks like I finally have a reason to stop dropping by here now. Never really liked the IGN forum communities.
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It seems the way of the world at the moment to "improve" everything people like by turning it into crap, in search of an extra few pennies from eg cross-sales (which never materialise).
... then the company either gets bought out and then disappears or files bankruptcy.
I will never have anything to do with IGN after this.
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Found this on the merger plans for the IGN boards. I don't like how that looks at all.
"** Merge following boards (http://boards.ign.com/nintendo_wii_3ds_ds_boards/c5062 ):
Nintendo Wii Lobby
Nintendo Wii General Board
Into
Nintendo Wii Board
** Merge following boards (http://boards.ign.com/nintendo_wii_3ds_ds_boards/c5062 ):
Nintendo DS Lobby
Nintendo DS General Board
Into
Nintendo DS Board
** Merge following boards (http://boards.ign.com/nintendo_wii_3ds_ds_boards/c5062 ):
Nintendo 3DS Lobby
Nintendo 3DS General Board
Into
Nintendo 3DS Board
Merge following boards (http://boards.ign.com/pc_games_and_more/c5060 ):
PC General Board
PC Hardware Board
PC Games Lobby
PC Software Tech Corner
Case Modding Board
Into
PC Board
Merge following boards (http://boards.ign.com/playstation_boards/c5058 ):
PS3 Lobby
PS3 General Board
PlayStation Move
PlayStation Network Board
Into
PlayStation Board
(Keep this board with no change: PS2 General Board)
Merge following boards (http://boards.ign.com/playstation_boards/c5058 ):
PSP Lobby
PSP Import Invasion Board
PSP UMD Video, Music & Multimedia
Into
PSP Board
Create new board: PS Vita Board
Merge following boards (http://boards.ign.com/xbox_360_boards/c5056 ):
Xbox 360 General Board
Xbox 360 Lobby
Xbox Live Board
Xbox Kinect Motion
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Xbox Board"
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Looking at a couple of their community boards, typical topics are best summed up by the titles "Have you ever touched another man's penis?" and "Would you have sex with an alien?".
I have to say, it doesn't look good  !
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Looking at a couple of their community boards, typical topics are best summed up by the titles "Have you ever touched another man's penis?" and "Would you have sex with an alien?".
I have to say, it doesn't look good !
VN community boards any different? I typically stay away from them out of fear what's going on there is contagious and my IQ might drop.
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Found this on the merger plans for the IGN boards. I don't like how that looks at all.
I believe that was the IGN merging some of it's own boards earlier in the year and I think that's done now.
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Ravy, you are probably right but it still looks bad to me. While a hardware/tech board may not get much traffic it is a much better place to post a hardware/tech question than a more general board where it is likely to get moved to another page rather quickly.
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Thanks for everything Mithan. I won't be moving over personally, it just won't be the same.
There's a lot of people here with some incredible post counts. I feel like this is the end of something for me, personally as well.
MMO's and gaming in general is just not the same as it was 10-12 years ago. I lurked here for a while after the AC Warcry boards were getting DOS attacks and just liked it here more. AC brought me here and I have fond memories of AC1 in 2000/2001 and VNboards.
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Ravynmagi posted:
Seffrid posted:
Looking at a couple of their community boards, typical topics are best summed up by the titles "Have you ever touched another man's penis?" and "Would you have sex with an alien?".
I have to say, it doesn't look good !
VN community boards any different? I typically stay away from them out of fear what's going on there is contagious and my IQ might drop.
That's certainly why I've stayed away from ones like AC Friends, but the Political and Current Events board is a serious one that I'll miss a great deal, albeit it's been very quiet for a while now.
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Well, damn. I enjoyed reading stuff here.
Anyone know of some decent boards? I refuse to move to the IGN ones. 
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Oh, well, I've enjoyed my nearly 10 years on these boards. I doubt I'll move to IGN. Thanks Mithan and all the mods for keeping the joint running all these years.
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Might stick an alt board out, we will see.
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I didnt like the last two mergers....I can already tell you Im not gonna like this next one at all.
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Ya, I was a lurker from 00-03' The boards were primarily was the place AC commerce primarily happened and my guild had a single guy that did all our purchases / sales here for us during those years. I remember the boards would scroll so fast you couldn't keep anything on the front page for a whole minute even with it set to 50/page... I highly doubt I will go to IGN as well. I kind of resented the last merger. This one will kill it for me. Good times though.
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This is bad news imo.....I will miss having this board around.
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I could not click on that because it had wow as part of the url  .
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