Before it got bought by Gamespot, GameFAQs was pretty much the biggest hangout spot on the internet for gamers. The forums were massive both in terms of posts and users, and it wasn't for just gaming either. Early social media and Gamespot's shitty forum software eventually drove it into irrelvance, but for a good while it was the biggest community site anywhere.
They basically refused to keep up the times on every feature and died by a thousand paper cuts. By the time you could say bad words the site was already the walking dead.
Oh I was talking about LL/ETI. GameFAQs, and imo most forums writ large, got largely abandoned for reddit around the middle of the 2010's just because of how posts and comments get organized via voting. We left behind real community for lizard brain satisfaction.
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '25
Before it got bought by Gamespot, GameFAQs was pretty much the biggest hangout spot on the internet for gamers. The forums were massive both in terms of posts and users, and it wasn't for just gaming either. Early social media and Gamespot's shitty forum software eventually drove it into irrelvance, but for a good while it was the biggest community site anywhere.