GameFAQs creator calls it quits

Ahh, the memories...

"GameFAQs will never feature ads." -CJayC

Hopefully they ax the forums from the website. Anytime I tried to browse them, pieces of my brain ran away from home in protest.

-shrug-

As long as they keep the repository of older game FAQs for those clutch situations, then all is well.

The site lost its soul the moment he sold it anyway. Nothing would change he said, hah! That he sold it is why it's no longer the first and last place to go for FAQs.

The forums are needed though, where else are you going to have entire boards dedicated to Faxanau, Mario Tennis AND Mighty Max?

Look, "sir", the age limit is 13 to register so there are no 10 year old people there. Research something before you make baseless assumptions.

I remember my first time. I was getting nowhere fast in FFIX and I.. Wait actually it was probably Pokemon when I was looking for Game Shark codes. I tried the site but it was relatively useless. I then googled it and found GameFaqs. Really useful for all those FAQs.

lol, you think 10 year olds don't know how to subtract 3 years from their birthdate?

I love that site. I regularly visit it when I get stuck on a game.

Does this mean the site will actually move beyond 1995 and start accepting FAQs in something other than .txt format?

Gamefaqs outta be touted as a google type internet revolution. I have made use of gq countless times. Its the shizznit.

Good luck on your other ventures Veasey!

"GameFAQs will never merge with Gamespot. We're not going to sell-out the soul of the site." -CJayC

He's probably in his 30's now (just guessing), and just read the forums on his site for the first time in years. When he read the innane fanboy curses, hip hop jargon, jackass type commentary that seems cool when you're 12 and the rest of the type of threads on his own site and realized that he couldn't even remotely identify with the majority of it, he realized it was time for him to move on.

i dont go on the social boards, but the actual game forums can provide tips and stuff before anyone writes them up into a FAQ (great for new games)

i don't pay attention to the ads there, but when gamespot does the intro page ads before you can even access the main page, i just close the browser and don't go back there for a day or so, that shit is so annoying

please, you can't go anywhere on the net and not bump into ads. what do you think you see on this same page, next to comments, next to the headline.

don't like ads? then get off the internet.

gamefaqs still is the best site to visit when you're stuck on a game.

It always pisses me off when I have to go to GameFAQs but I'm always less pissed off once I figure out what stupid thing I have to do that the developers didn't make obvious enough.

Hats off to CJayC for a job well done, broken promises or not. Hopefully he uses the money he has to build something better for the gaming community. Either that or beer and hookers.

As an avid user of GameFAQs since 2000, I am sorry to see CJayC go. While some may say that he sold out... it was necessary. The choices were either to let the site die, or to get funding from another source. He definitely made the right choice. I have also been on the boards since sometime 2001, and while the userbase is very immature and rude for the most part, it has remained my Internet home for as long as I can remember. Having CJayC leave feels almost like a friend is moving away.

Even I feel like I have outgrown it a bit. Granted, I an not quite as old as CJayC, but I can still feel my age showing while reading the same middle school-ish posts that I read 5 years ago. I'm not quite up to shaking the habit yet... the forums are just too addictive. It's really unlike any other forum that I have been on. There are so many boards, and so many communities, and so many users that things just somehow never get old. I take up residence at a new board every so often and leave a couple months later. CE is my current home.

But I'm just rambling. I really just want to thank CJayC for doing everything that he has done over the past so many years. I should get around to that before he actually leaves.

I hate going to GameFAQs.

I hate it because the people on the forums are utterly irredeemable of being intelligent life forms.

And I hate it because some part of a game ticked me off enough to go there and experience said people.

appreciate that guy.. for creating one of the pioneer gaming 'wiki' where we could confidently go into when we get stuck on a game.. kudos for him!

I've been using it since it started. And it's still the first place I go looking for help in a game ... and as if to prove something (though I don't know what) the first place my daughter goes for help.

Oh. And I hope it stays in txt forever.

It's funny I've been using gamefaqs for YEARS and have never posted on the forums there. It's just not my thing. I'm just there for the FAQS.

Before I heard of gameFAQS, I used to wait for the saturday paper at home because they feature a "Game Guide" column. I always waited my guts out for saturday to come, and when it DO arrives, the games featured are limited.

I then tried googling walkthroughs when I first learned to use the internet, but sometimes, it would take forever for me the find a guide for the game i'm currently playing.

then I discovered gameFAQS, and my gaming life was never the same.

so i'm just wondering why would anyone hate gameFAQS. It's a WEBSITE, for crying out loud. People have the right and the capability if they want to visit it or not. If there are people who hate gameFAQS, then DON'T VISIT THEM. Don't insult the site or voice out your objections on it because gameFAQS is a great site. It's the haters who let themselves be affected, not the site. Hate the forums? DON'T READ THEM THEN. GameFAQS was, of course, a lot better when there were no ads or links to gamespot and stuff, but they're already there. We'll just have to learn to live with those minor nuisances.

Anyway, I'm sure CjayC had a pretty good reason why he put up all those things there. Maybe because just the FAQS and the boards aren't profitable enough anymore.

And come on. FAQS with flash or videos may be cool, but who really needs them, right? The purpose of gameFAQS, in my opinion, is to simply provide information on games. And what format is the most basic and takes the least amount of space and bandwidth? and if gamers who
contribute (three cheers for them!!!) FAQS want to show an image to the reader, they could post a link to them, right? Knocker is right. I hope it stays in TXT forever. Having media embedded into the guides could compromise the site's speed. The ads already slowed it down as it is.

And to Sir Jeff Veasey, Thanks for making a great site. The idea that you would be leaving the site sucks, but that's life. Good luck on whatever you're planning to do next. God bless and more power!

One last thing, sorry if any of my grammar's a bit off.