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**BarBoss** · 08-25-2009, 12:27 AM

News has been coming out slower for some time. Though the tech industry has been in a lull for a few years now, so that could explain it.
I remember when new technology for CPU and GPU was coming out every 6 months almost and plenty of games with them.

Games have drastically slowed down, and look at my sig. I built this rig a year ago to date and the only thing that I could change is my CPU to a $200 Phenom II, though it isn't needed at all. Nothing is as expensive as it used to be either. The variety has changed up.

Console games even seem to have slowed down.
I think that a lot of it would also have to do with independent developers and small time developers have been bought up by larger giants to help them work on their projects, or have just shut down. Look at the costs and time to make a video game these days! It is ridiculous. Not too long ago, you could essentially make a game in your basement with just a few friends in roughly a year. Cheaper to make, easier to make, ect. ect.

Then, there also has been a ton of characters that have been banned over the years that provided a lot of the entertainment. Hell, we even used to have people on here buy the latest and the greatest, just to freaking benchmark and test it out. Back when I first built my 2500+ Barton, I remember that at the time, case modding and water cooling was a pretty big thing here on FM as well. I went with case modding and my friend went water cooling.

Shoot, since then, there also has been more websites that have been created, and more games that have been created, so people end up drifting off to different newer or guild forums.

WoW would also have a lot to do with it as well. People that I never would have imagined playing WoW, or any RPG / MMORPG for that matter is playing freaking WoW.

08-25-2009, 12:27 AM	#88
BarBoss Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 577 Senior Member	News has been coming out slower for some time. Though the tech industry has been in a lull for a few years now, so that could explain it. I remember when new technology for CPU and GPU was coming out every 6 months almost and plenty of games with them. Games have drastically slowed down, and look at my sig. I built this rig a year ago to date and the only thing that I could change is my CPU to a $200 Phenom II, though it isn't needed at all. Nothing is as expensive as it used to be either. The variety has changed up. Console games even seem to have slowed down. I think that a lot of it would also have to do with independent developers and small time developers have been bought up by larger giants to help them work on their projects, or have just shut down. Look at the costs and time to make a video game these days! It is ridiculous. Not too long ago, you could essentially make a game in your basement with just a few friends in roughly a year. Cheaper to make, easier to make, ect. ect. Then, there also has been a ton of characters that have been banned over the years that provided a lot of the entertainment. Hell, we even used to have people on here buy the latest and the greatest, just to freaking benchmark and test it out. Back when I first built my 2500+ Barton, I remember that at the time, case modding and water cooling was a pretty big thing here on FM as well. I went with case modding and my friend went water cooling. Shoot, since then, there also has been more websites that have been created, and more games that have been created, so people end up drifting off to different newer or guild forums. WoW would also have a lot to do with it as well. People that I never would have imagined playing WoW, or any RPG / MMORPG for that matter is playing freaking WoW.
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