The site is going to be booming soon, mark my words. If no one comes here, I and GP still will, even if that's only meaning that we're going to be chatting around forums but yea, GR was the site that really effected my real life.. How? I'll answer that some day. Gave me new friends that I met 4 years ago but I still speak to them (some of who are now becoming my real life friends). Greatly helped me improve my writing skills (English) and language in general. Learned a lot from my fellow members. Used to speak about this to my real life mates when they used to tell me "Go ------ yourself, loser, get a life, jerk, ------ off" etc.. I never gave up on this site. I loved enjoyed having my own Shop here as if I had one in real life. Gave me the few basics of Trade required that other sites never gave me, neither did anyone from my personal life or my personal life experience. I never took GR has 'just another site', it is somehow special. I still see the friendliness when I come to this site. I've got accounts over about 100+ graphic sites where I may have posted 500 posts max.. Never really got the same feeling as this one. A lot more has happened so I love GR from the bottom of my heart!
Its like all gfx forums die these days.. we gotta make it like w-bb (i think ppl know what i'm takling about ) They'rr booming.
WELL WELL WELL , if it isnt sanity and rena ...i see you lot are sitting pretty in high positions these days. and as i predicted when i came back GR would be dead... im only back here because kirbir came out of the blue on facebook and sent me a message asking me who i am.... so what ---- is going down in this place? i might have to stick around
...I'm Retired Staff... that's the equivalent of a shit member around here now-a-days. But people still like me for some reason.
^_^.. Expressed myself honestly. Now it's all a matter of opinion. Also: In the quiet words of the Virgin Mary... come again?
Alot of graphics forums are dying, the advent of social networking is slowly killing the last of them. Good times on GR years ago though.
When did I become fat? I never have been over 200 pounds. Is that still considered fat? Don't give up, like I said, we are updating the forums. Patients my son, patients!
It's been close to... I dunno, what... 2 years now that we've been waiting for v4? After a while, it just seems bogus.
I understand all that. I also understand not believing me when I say we are still doing the update. Shit always seems to crash when we get this v4 going, but this time there won't be that crash. Just shock and awe, or maybe just shock. I guess we will see.
The only reason GR was updated to this skin instead of waiting even longer was my coder promised quick results, which were delivered. I can't speak from anything recently, but I know when I was on staff a lot of ideas were brought up that would have helped the site. The two main ones were: - Premium Tutorials phase 1 was implemented, but as far as I know, none of those tutorials were actually submitted to tutorial search indexes such as Pixel2Life or Good-Tutorials. - Mass email to all members was suggested GameRenders doesn't need to advertise itself, I'm sure dementia or shaggy can easily prove that a lot of unique hits still come in for the site. It's just a matter of turning those hits into active members. I think once credits were mentioned about being removed, the site just sort of declined after that. I know the Marketplace has died, and that use to be one of the most active parts of the website. Ever since I purchased the first signature PSD for 700~ credits lol. In my opinion, this site has a lot to offer. No front page is really needed, just update the splash to reflect the skin update [as that splash incorporates the old GR skin] and spend some of that money building a front page system into some quality tutorials on areas that GameRenders would rather focus on: large pieces, templates, coding? You can also incorporate IPBSEO practices, which would increase the keywords GameRenders is known for. With the right tutorial, a few subtle changes, this website could be kicking again. It's just a matter if the staff wants to do so. It's kind of like World of Warcraft: Blizzard can sit back and not update anything in that game for the next six months, and they'd still make a fortunate. I'm assuming advertising revenue is still coming in nicely, along with premium memberships - so there is no.. desire for the upper echelon of staff to do something [shaggy]. It's funny: this site has always had a large member database, and for the most part, active staff - yet it was always hold back by Administrators. It took a lot of bitching to ever get Joe to do something, lol. Though, in hindsight, that was probably a good thing. It meant that he actually put some thoughts into his decisions, i guess. I understand where Zoh is coming from: if you were any sort of decent businessman at wheeling and dealing, the GameRenders masses could have easily paid for some smaller things. I know members like Pixelated Paradise, High Till I Die, Pegasus/Emerald, and other members made a fortunate on this website. The marketplace had a very simply structured supply/and demand. Anyone that tried could have made money on GameRenders. I can name at least 20 people that walked away $300+ dollars richer because of this website. Not many other graphic sites can claim that, even deviantART didn't bring in that much money to their artist - and they had a higher degree of professionalism and quality of their work then GameRenders. That's something to be proud of, but can we bring that back? Probably not, but we can definitely jumpstart activity to this website. Even myself, made a decent amount of money off GameRenders - though it was put into server bills, as I was foolish enough to sign a one-year contract for $130 dollars a month and had no job at the time. That eventually led to me adding credits to pay for various stuff, I admit. Though a bulk of the credits I initially gave away were for 'positive' reasons. For example, Gurly once spent about 50,000 credits in the Marketplace on tutorials/and signatures to give away in the resource section in two different segments. Andrew *edit: fixed some spelling
