Dragon_Puncher

Funny thing is that this is exactly what happened. Except that pretty much all the mods folded when Reddit actually threatened to remove them. Including the GB mods right now.

@haxadecimal: Covid was the start of the site's downward spiral, but after Nextlander guys left it was clear that it was running on fumes and flailing around trying to find out what to be now.

At least the new crew tried something new and had a sort of direction, but when none of the original personalities are left on a personalities driven website, it's gonna be pretty damn hard.

Now it's clear to me that Fandom has no intention of doing anything to let GB trive. The site is just going to die a slow death.

Overall Elden Ring will win most GOTY awards though I think God of War will have its fair share as well.

If we are talking GB awards I think GoW is pretty well positioned to take it. A lot of members loved the first game and didn't fall in love with Elden Ring, so I'm gonna guess that's where it ends up.

He didn't, but at least he had a bad time. That makes it better.

@rawkpartee: Listening to what Jeff has said on the topic, it is clear that around two weeks before his own first stream (and the announcement of the new GB) Jeff was forced to leave the site on pretty much a moments notice. The exact circumstances of what happened here we don’t know, but reading between the lines it seems pretty clear this is not how he wanted his last time at GB to go.

So I don’t buy the idea that everyone could leave happy here. This was not an amicable split, even if getting away from the site was what Jeff wanted.

@finaldasa: It wasn't family or personal though. Not anymore than this one. And there were no threads allowed on the subject at all, at least none existed and I can't imagine I was the only one creating one about such a watershred moment for the site.

I guess time has made you relax a bit on this topic and change your stance.

Interesting. When I made a thread on the circumstances of Jeff’s departure a little over a month ago it was immediately locked because you “didn’t allow speculation“. Maybe you need to have a talk in the mod team.

Yeah, people saying "Jeff is so private, that's why we know nothing" is just straight up kidding themselves. Do you really think Jeff didn't even want to write his own goodbye blog post to the fans on the site he created and ran for 14 years? And if that was really it, he would have just said so in his first solo stream. Instead he adressed that he knew there was going to be a lot of speculation about his departure, but he couldn't talk about it. If one thing did become clear in the first stream Jeff did, it was that he had been completely out of GB for 14 days and it had happened suddenly.

Some sort of deal was made, that made sure Jeff (and maybe the GB staff as well) couldn't talk about the circumstances of his departure publicly. We know Jeff had a lot of problems with RV executives and I think it came to head and he resigned, but instead of giving him his 14 days leave, RV just kicked him out immediately. But that's just speculation, obviously.

Like others have said though, it doesn't really matter a whole lot anymore. Both Jeff and GB seem to be in a better place. But like the story of his firing from CBS, I do hope the real story about this comes out one day.

@drrobotnikx: They had a whole goodbye stream. There were goodbye streams for Dan and Abby as well.

For the guy that actually created the site.. Nothing. Highly doubt that was Jeff's own wish.

Great thread! The amount of active users here in 2022 is scarily low, not gonna lie.