A neogaf mod was arrested for child porn UPDATE: Owner has sexual assault history and site down.

[Thoughtspeak]

Would not be surprised if indie devs suffered from this fallout. Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, Axiom Verge, Transistor, Hyper Light Drifter, The Banner Saga, Shadowrun (Harebrained Scheme series), Cave Story, Iji, and so many others. I would have never heard of them or given them a chance had it not been for GAF. Cosmic Star Heroine? Was made aware of its Kickstarter campaign on GAF and backed it. I don't check out GameSpot, IGN, Polygon, Waypoint or whatever.

Yeah. Gaf was defo a signal boost for some of the more obscure games and Kickstarters. But such is the nature of the beast. Now indies will have to put a bit more work in than asking people on gaf to be their unpaid hypemen.

 

[Lv99 Slacker]

Maybe the new streaming service called Jump will help carry on the recognition for indie games because it's looking bad for the genre with websites covering AA and AAA games as of late.

https://playonjump.com/

Interesting. Gamefly, but primarily for indie games. Thanks for this.

 

[Hood Critic]

I thought you all knew that NG was an extension of *****.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Interesting. Gamefly, but primarily for indie games. Thanks for this.

No probs. The service reminds me of Gametap which is heavily missed to me

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

Why do y'all hate neogaf so much, at least it's not a white supremacist website like 99% of these gaming websites. Most arcadium posters are cac alt rights members in disguise.

It was alright. I'm not going to lie, I liked that it was one of the last places on the net that wasn't infected with the gamergate/alt-right/conspiracy nonsense that's everywhere these days.

 

[IGSaint12]

Why do y'all hate neogaf so much, at least it's not a white supremacist website like 99% of these gaming websites. Most arcadium posters are cac alt rights members in disguise.

This. They were pretty active in moderating hate speech and alt right opinions. I don't dare go on any other forums to fear of running into these people and getting banned for going off on someone. That would just be a waste of my time.

 

[IGSaint12]

Probably a revamp but the way things are going, what's the point? The owner is pretty much a blatant hypocrite and the posters rioting in those cyber streets. Reddit or bust I guess

Scust. He just needs to sell it at this point and fadeway, but bring back the same mods.

 

[StretfordRed]

I thought you all knew that NG was an extension of *****.

This is utter BS

 

[Kingshango]

Maybe the new streaming service called Jump will help carry on the recognition for indie games because it's looking bad for the genre with websites covering AA and AAA games as of late.

https://playonjump.com/

Thanks for this, one of the few merits of Gaf was the indie shilling.

 

[Tetsuo]

So glad to see gaf get a taste of its own medicine.

 

[Auger]

As games become more and more platforms, discussion of them is going to become more insular. There will be less big breaking news and industry insights will become of the more timid variety. Think the million and one destiny OTs.

But people want this, even if the typical neogaf poster didn't. Gaf dying Is both poetic and systemic of a gaming industry that is changing rapidly.

Things like lootboxes, micro transactions, and overall broken games were accurately called out.

I wouldn't know that MGSV had an abrupt ending, or that a lot of PC ports were poorly optimized if it weren't for GAF.

Devs can't ship broken games and hope consumers don't realize.

 

[Thoughtspeak]

Things like lootboxes, micro transactions, and overall broken games were accurately called out.

I wouldn't know that MGSV had an abrupt ending, or that a lot of PC ports were poorly optimized if it weren't for GAF.

Devs can't ship broken games and hope consumers don't realize.

I think alot of the industry will be rubbing their hands at the death of Neogaf for all the wrong reasons.

 

[Auger]

I think alot of the industry will be rubbing their hands at the death of Neogaf for all the wrong reasons.

shyt, they called out Nvidia for shipping the GTX 970 with 3.5GBs of GDDR instead of the 4GBs advertised on the box

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

I wouldn't know that MGSV had an abrupt ending, or that a lot of PC ports were poorly optimized if it weren't for GAF.

These things were discussed until exhaustion everywhere including in the arcadium.

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

Maybe the new streaming service called Jump will help carry on the recognition for indie games because it's looking bad for the genre with websites covering AA and AAA games as of late.

https://playonjump.com/

Indies were hot a few years ago when PS4 launched. Now we 4 years imto the gen, plenty of good AAA games can be had at discounted prices. Not to mention PSN having sales every other week. Basically who gone buy indy when you can buy AAA for the same price