#12953422, By bzzct Sunsetting the Eurogamer forum

bzzct 18 Aug 2021 18:35:06 2,518 posts
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richardiox wrote:

bzzct wrote:
It's a shame this place is closing, but it's understandable. Complaining about EG pulling the plug feels a bit like the teenagers who get pissed in the supermarket car park complaining when they're finally told to clear off.
Not really. It's not like we're here uninvited and don't contribute to traffic to the site. Many regulars have been visiting the site for up to 20 years.

I suspect that in a world where you can measure unique ad impressions, it's perhaps optimistic to see traffic from the same few hundred people constantly refreshing one sub-section of the site as a net contribution. How many potential customers is the forum delivering to advertisers when the forum has hardly attracted any new users in a decade and a half? We can try to guess but EG have the numbers...

One could argue that they could keep it running just for old times' sake, as a favour to people that were around at the start even though there's bugger all in it for them, but FWIW I prefer to see it as good that they've effectively done that for the last ten years rather than bad that they're not going to keep doing it forever.