popkorn1, if you are still reading this, I hope it will help you to know that we are aware of all the problems you mention and have been working on solutions for a long time.
Some of them are very slow to come to fruition, like the site's redesign. I think you will see that this summer, after E3.
The forum community suffered from our technical problems, because the forums are hosted on the same server as the rest of the site. As our traffic rebuilds, the forums will become more active. And I am thinking of ways to promote the forums so that new people join the fray, some of whom will bring valuable discussion.
I agree very much about spam against spam, and I'm going to do what I can to stop it. If you see a thread you think should be locked, just let us know with the forum abuse tool...there's no need to reply in the thread at all.
I think our news coverage is much, much improved from what it was a few months ago, and we're still working on ways to bring it up to the former level of quality and more. Sometimes we don't get news as quickly as other places because we are not getting the required information from publishers, and I'm trying to fix that right now. Sometimes it's because we are trying to validate the information. This has always been important for us at PGC, and it's why sometimes you will see us post news later than other sites even if we found it before they did. We have a strict policy of finding the original source and verifying its reliability, and this process takes time. Here is my goal for PGC news: "Usually we post first. Always we post right." When you come to PGC and read a news story, I want you to be sure that it's real. Many of our competitors, though I will not name names and mean them no disrespect, cannot say as much. Did you see the supposed screenshot of Wind Waker 2 the other day? That's a very good example of what I mean.
Topic: My OPINION on PGC... Goodbye old friend (Read 13192 times)
