Just wondering what everybody thinks about the longevity of this community and where it is going.
Just wondering what everybody thinks about the longevity of this community and where it is going.
In Jail with Shito.
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Originally Posted by Curt
But i dont know, depends how long shawn will keep forking out the £$£$£$ for this place.
I hate when you suddenly get off AIM yet i know you are still online as I e-stalk you.
Seriously though, I imagine the community will still flare up as new SNKP games are released on the AtomisWave hardware. Traffic will definitely die down, except for all the spamtards, like myself, who come here to talk games and bullshit in Unrelated.
I was reading something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lagduf
Jesus what a high maintainence stalker. :rolleyes:
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On a serious note though.
We've survived the death of the neo but can this site weather the long term impact of that?
Especially in the face of the low quality (and low interest in stuff) that is being released by SNKP sporadically.
Assuming WOW hasn't further afflicted Shawn and the bills are still being paid for this forum, I'd predict a good deal of us will still be in here on a semi regular basis give or take brief hiatuses. This place is basically CHEERS on the Internet... a place where everybody knows your name, were bonded by a common love of video games anchored by love of SNK's Neo:Geo, and it's the differing personas and "TEH DRAMA" that keeps us coming back. I don't really see much changing to be honest with you.
...of course unless one day we come to this URL and get a farewell message similar to what happened over at S-C.Com. Hopefully we'll all be shootin' the shit 12 years from now, but I've learned not to expect anything.
MERCENARY X99
How much traffic do sites devoted to other so called "retro" systems get though?Quote:
Originally Posted by syringe
They seem to be doing reasonably well. I think there will always be some members around but not as many as their used to be.
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mercenary X99
Worst comes to worst maybe we'll still have Sega-Spetsnaz ;)
Wheres its always been puto...right here. It will still be up and running, if not someone would make a refugee site and what not. I dont see myself being here too much longer though....tis the status.
Hopefully this place will still be here. Yeah I've been on a lot of forums and sites like faceparty, but out of them all, this is easily my favourite place. So many great people here, it's more than an online community, I'm sure many would agree that it's part of their life.
Remember when everyone got worried earlier in the year about this place closing and a subscription fee was suggested? I'd still happily pay that in the future, if Shawn couldn't afford to host this place any more.
Arbilus, look -- it's Unicron!
It will still be here. :)
Yep, shawn has like 5 more years plugged into this site, he posted about this a while back.Quote:
Originally Posted by SilverAngel
Slowly crawling towards the grave, like all of us.
Xbox360 probably.
Get to the ships! It's our only chance! (or not as the case may be)Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthtownKid
In three years time I predict: that unless Shawn difersifys the Neo store, that it'll go under but despite that, the forum will remain. It may change hands a couple of times and people may come and go it'll still be here.
i think it will be here and stronger than ever!!
LONG LIVE SNK AND ITS FANS!
ROFL they talk on AIM how cute.Quote:
Originally Posted by syringe
Kranix.... ARRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoTheranthrope
I think it'll still be here. Hopefully we'll see some Atomiswave ports on the next generation of system, and we see some new life being breathed into the Neo Geo world.
ill still be here im sure.
neo geo might be the reason to come but its not the reason to stay.
ive had some many laughs and heard so many crazy stories.... couldnt find a better commnunity.
Mak's thread will have evolved into a global religion and the human race will face extinction from lack of breeding. So in other words, we'll still be here spamming.
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Originally Posted by SilverAngel
I'll be here as long as you are.
This is the only place online where I post. I imagine I'll probably be here for a while, but who knows.
SEGA-SPETSNAZ.COM will always be up (at least the website) as long as I draw breath, as I add to it little by little. The forums there will always be up as long as the "other" MD20XX keeps it up and invisionfree is still supported. I like our little community there, though I need to be more on the ball with getting a lot of locals I know who are SEGA nuts as well as other die-hard gamers to get their butts in there. Of course if they're just going to join and only post 5 or 12 times I'd rather they not. **ON TOPIC though, I don't see NG.Com going anywhere, but if it does we'll always have the SSC to hang back at so I'm not worried a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve
Just wish I could change my screenname here to Grizzly King without having to start from Zero and have yet another "Join Date" being so much later than it has been since I've been here originally since May 2002. Mercenary X99 really isn't accurate with how I feel or do things anymore really, but it's not worth starting from zero to me, thus I'll stay MERC X99.
MERCENARY X99
I don't have anywhere else to go. There were only 3 boards where I ever posted this much. One went under in 2000 early 2001 (Planetnamek.com) Another went under in 2004 (deck-zone.com) . Currently (dragonballtoys.com) is still open, but I don't see it lasting much longer as there is barely any interest in Dragon Ball much less the toys.
So this is the last place where I actually kept coming. Even after I stopped posting here I had to come back. The community(drama) is like crack. So unless Shawn closes shop or some unseen life changes come, I'll be here.
Well will any one of us ever talk 2 each other once Neo-geo.com is finished
IT'S A TRAP!Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoTheranthrope
seriously in like four years the forums will probably close.......nah not if we all buy someting from the neo store
I think the site will still be around...
Maybe we can apply to be a UN World Heritage Site for gov't support of our international community :p
Or maybe there will be some radical breakthrough in wireless internet/interface technology so that we can simply think about the web anywhere cell phone service is available and post. Of course, that would lead to many people yelling obsenities in public because they were trying to be cute in the War Room ("Oh yeah, assclown? I'm not the one who dated some freaky vagina'd chick and got the attempted restraining order. So put that in your god damn pipe and smoke it you bracket-i-close-bracket assgoblin bracket-backslash-i-close-bracket exclamation point submit-reply!!!")
The real scary thing is... if this board and its current "regulars" are around 10 years from now... and many of us are married with new tales and drama to share... that would be HELLA funny... set your watches boys, 10 years flies by fast... maybe by then Boog will have gotten laid and so will Mak... er nevermind the last one there.... :kekeke:
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Originally Posted by The Legendary LoneWolf
lol...that sounds like something straight out of High School senior year.
Knowing how batshit insane Mak is, my money's on boog.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve
Now all we can do is sit and wait.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoTheranthrope
many of the more popular forum goers here will be gone in the next 3 years, I've seen it happen many times. they get what is called a "life", something like that I think.
Richard Gere, ladies and gentlemen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark of the Wolves
I liked him in Unfaithful. Haven't seen him in anything else though.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthtownKid
I don't post on any other forums probably because it'd be hard to find another place like ng.com. I used to chat alot but that stuff gets old real quick and i always find myself right back here.
this forum will be here until shawn decides it's not worth 4 grand a year in server bills.....
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Originally Posted by DashK
When I read your post, I heard it in Gere's whiney delivery from 'Officer and a Gentleman' with him and Louis Gossett Jr. Not saying you are whiney, but it's like, no matter who types: "It's a trap," you only ever hear it in that one voice. Kind of like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark of the Wolves
The idea of N-G going down is a scary thought. N-G is a big part of my internet.
The 10 years bit is interesting. I'll be 27 by then. If I get married, and this place is still around, I'll invite y'all.
n-g.com dies, a little of me dies too. :crying:
i predict that if NG.com gets canned everyone will migrate to ON.com
COOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I'll probably come here for the rest of it's existence
I'm sure a day will come when many of us will be too busy with our lives (wife, kids, job, etc.) to come here and talk about videogames, etc.
But I'll always stop by, and there's always AIM
heh heh, I'm betting that won't be the case with a great many of us, not to name names (me). Anyhow, if I was any busier than I am now, I would spontaniously combust (and some days I wish for it), but I still manage to find time to throw away here.Quote:
Originally Posted by roker
I'm still waiting for the day I get a stray PM from someone here via yahoo messenger. Then again, good luck finding my profile.Quote:
Originally Posted by roker
TIs worse for me, NG.com dies, i fully die :crying:Quote:
Originally Posted by Decepticreep
If this place ever gets shut down...Ill end up at Digitpress.com. :crying:
Ditto or i'll be spending a lot of time at pcenginefx.com :mr_t:Quote:
Originally Posted by Insaneclown
Probably "here" - as in, the unrelated forums... where this thread was posted :spock:
Even though I don't post very often, I check the forums all the time. I find a lot of news/game info and impressions.
Without Neo-geo.com I'd use the internet a lot more often and finish every game I'm half way through.
In three years? We'll still be here. Maybe King of Fighters 12 will be out. Hopefully SNKP will have given up on the idea of 3d kof games/metal slugs.
In three years hopefully a lot of us will be connected with Xbox360 live playing fighters and shooters with each other. Live chat.