Are gaming communities getting smaller?

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As the title says. There were times when gaming audiences kept growing as in earlier in the last generation, but I started to sense that the number of guys who post on forums and websites about gaming are either stale or maybe even dwindling. Like, we see the very same guy who frequented on TXB making a fuss on GAF, users who were on one communities go to others, etc. But there seems to be a stark lack of totally new users everywhere. And as the numbers go down, opinions get much more conservative, fights get more violent everywhere, bad things happen, etc. ... Seems like gaming communities as a whole are dying. Am I the only one who see things this way?
 
I think conventional forums (not reddit) are dying out in general thanks to the social media scene.
 
Z A C K said:
I think conventional forums (not reddit) are dying out in general thanks to the social media scene.
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Yeah, they are quite outdated in a way. Speak with 12-18 year olds and I bet I'd struggle to find a single one who was signed up on a forum of any description.

Generally speaking, I turn to forums for specific issues I experience, e.g. car problems. I guess many youngsters won't really need that sort of advice (they don't do DIY etc. yet), and their general online interactions are done via social media.
 
Forums have turned in to posting stuff about Grumpy Cat. I'm OK with that.



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Maybe forums are becoming more something you go to, to get something specific out of it?
 
Not getting smaller, just more "spread out".

XBL, Facebook, and other social media is one thing, but it's the advent of the smart phone and tablets that's really separating the gamers apart. Social and other casual gamers are now gravitating or have already have towards the phones/tablet scene. Hardcore market have always been very small. In the past, it just wasn't that apparent due to the fact everyone game on a console. These days, with other options, people are just getting more spread out that's all.
 
BraddersTheDog said:
Yeah, they are quite outdated in a way. Speak with 12-18 year olds and I bet I'd struggle to find a single one who was signed up on a forum of any description.

Generally speaking, I turn to forums for specific issues I experience, e.g. car problems. I guess many youngsters won't really need that sort of advice (they don't do DIY etc. yet), and their general online interactions are done via social media.
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AMBER ALERT!!!!!!
 
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team56th said:
As the title says. There were times when gaming audiences kept growing as in earlier in the last generation, but I started to sense that the number of guys who post on forums and websites about gaming are either stale or maybe even dwindling. Like, we see the very same guy who frequented on TXB making a fuss on GAF, users who were on one communities go to others, etc. But there seems to be a stark lack of totally new users everywhere. And as the numbers go down, opinions get much more conservative, fights get more violent everywhere, bad things happen, etc. ... Seems like gaming communities as a whole are dying. Am I the only one who see things this way?
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I am quite curious about this. I see less "fights" and violent? Really? Lets hear about it!
 
no, just this community [TXB] got butthurt and everyone decided that they knew how to make/run/manage a website so we had approximately 342.45 websites created in the aftermath. 2 of those are somewhat successful.
 
I come to forums for game and nerd talk because few of my real life friend are gamers or nerds. Anymore Facebook is a glorified txt chat for me, as I not longer post or read public status updates. It is interesting how much pictures of me show up there though. Some of thoe pictures are like... Who took this picture and why???
 
XBoxNeo said:
I come to forums for game and nerd talk because few of my real life friend are gamers or nerds. Anymore Facebook is a glorified txt chat for me, as I not longer post or read public status updates. It is interesting how much pictures of me show up there though. Some of thoe pictures are like... Who took this picture and why???
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C*ck in hand amirite?
 
BraddersTheDog said:
C*ck in hand amirite?
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Lets just say it is as if there are awkward drunken moment faries at every awkward drunken moment of my life and they all post their pictures on facebook. But then there is this one that was of me and my son in Chicago on top of Sears Tower, and we were in Chicago alone...

Also I am apparently a photo bomber...
 
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