THIA: Forum only?

[Jimmy Barnes]

Biohaze is an OK RE fan site that always has news, but I've yet to visit the forums as an active member (only skim read 'em).

We lost Capcom Central, reHorror, Resident Evil Fan, EFN, EU, TotallyRE and seemingly THIA could be next!

[News Bot]

Biohaze is an OK RE fan site that always has news, but I've yet to visit the forums as an active member (only skim read 'em).

We lost Capcom Central, reHorror, Resident Evil Fan, EFN, EU, TotallyRE and seemingly THIA could be next!

The problem with those sites is that they had very little to none in terms of content. Out of all of them, I think REFan had the best content but even that is stretching it a bit and it went stagnant with year long gaps between news updates on the front page.

reHorror was just bad outside of the forum. I actually worked for Evil Unleashed for a time, and they had some nice ideas and seemed like they were getting somewhere. In the end I think they just lost motivation and shut down.

[[STARS]TyranT]

I also think leaking the whole of the contents of the Resident Evil 5 demo on the front was the nail in the coffin for reH. It certainly was for me.

[Darkmoon]

The leak itself was fine, and we even had it over here as well. What wasn't cool was ignoring Capcom when they asked us to remove the spoiler details. Almost all the sites did it - bar reH. Which was especially stupid when you remember they had a interview with a developer lined up.

[Alexia_Ashford]

I also think leaking the whole of the contents of the Resident Evil 5 demo on the front was the nail in the coffin for reH. It certainly was for me.

It was. When they did that, they lost any support they got from Capcom, cancelled their Takeuchi interview and told them to do one. Ben Le Rougetel from Capcom Europe told me that when they refused to take that stuff off and started trying to get stuff from them, that was it. Though because I gave Capcom Temp and DaMa's email address, it was apparently my fault and I got banned for it. Then when the new forum came up and they couldn't ban people anymore (I'd found that out elsewhere), DaMa hid that fact and tried to make out he unbanned me because he wanted to be friends again.

It was their attitude throughout the whole thing that peed Capcom off. I remember during the incident, DaMa put on his blog (which Snow saw too) that some "low level guy from Capcom" was trying to get him to take the spoilers off and he wouldn't. Well that "low level guy from Capcom" was in contact with the "big cheeses". XD

[Jimmy Barnes]

Troll haven, lol.

http://totallyre.com

[Xander Ashford]

Troll haven, lol.

http://totallyre.com

Wow, I haven't been there in ages. I was impressed that my account was still active and actually had PM's in it. I had ones in there from 2003.

That was the first forum I ever joined and attempted to contribute to; I soon realized what type of people it was made up of.

This is an example of what happens when a community loses its actual site.

[Jimmy Barnes]

Yeah, it was a site - it was a site like b4 2002.

[Weed]

Turning this place into a forum only is nothing more then a slow death for THIA. I say just shut it down and move on.

What little reason THIA had to exist basically vanished when this topic was created.

[nemesiswontdie]

Turning this place into a forum only is nothing more then a slow death for THIA. I say just shut it down and move on.

What little reason THIA had to exist basically vanished when this topic was created.

I have to agree. This site is dead. Barely anyone signs on anymore including me and a few former regulars like Valentinesdead, Mr.Spencer, Bertha and Vector but when we do sign on, its a post or 2. Hell, even the fucking Admins rarely sign on anymore. When people want news, they go to capcom unity and so forth. This site gets a lot of new people when a new RE game is announced but look at it, OCR and Revelations has been announced and theres maybe like 10 new people who log on once. The horror here is definitely not alive lolol.

[Jimmy Barnes]

Well, I guess there's only so much a person can say about one or more subjects before you end up just covering old ground again. When the news is becoming dry, it means your community is bound to feel a bit dry as well, until something of interest should happen, like the real RE6 confirmation that we're waiting on.

One of the reasons I never venture into some forums is cos they're almost always full of many pointless threads and polls, like "who's the sexiest RE heroine?" or something like it. There's really no need in that! And I think boredom kicks in when things are quiet, and they just end up spamming.

[Dot50Cal]

Lots of stuff in the thread, I've been reading it over carefully. I do like the idea of getting more news posters, but I've been so detached from the site that I don't feel qualified to say yes or no to people. Perhaps we should do that, but have the site regulars decide who should be let in so to speak. If anyone is willing, please send me a PM and we'll discuss it.

Theres two things I want to do asap: TSBB Feature completion and the forum update. Because of lack of time on my part, the forum update will go through with the default skin, which is going to brighten things up here a lot. Some people might not like that, but its what we have, for now, unless someone wants to step up and make a skin.

TSBB feature relies on a bit of creative work between Carn, Myself and Ice. I'll see if I can get the ball rolling on that again soon. I'm sure once RE6 stuff is announced my interest will peak again and I'll be back on the site daily, but until then I just don't have as much interest in the series as I once did. RE5 wrapped things up quite well for me and I'm just not able to freely spend my money as I once was, so I'll be missing out on the side-titles.

I've begun to sell my RE collection off, so theres really no hope of having full game sections as we once promised. I still do plan on doing the occasional feature or two, and if theres enough people wanting it, I'll release what we have completed thus far on the various sections. We certainly wont have the fabled map sections and such. Thinking back on it, the scope of that was just too much for how simple of a game RE1 and the successors were. I imagine us becoming more of a feature centric site. We kind of were that way, anyway.

If theres any features or content we promised but didn't deliver on that someone wants to see, let me know in this topic and I'll do my best to post what we have left of it.

[Mr. Spencer]

Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most... human.

[Pikminister]

I have to agree. This site is dead. Barely anyone signs on anymore including me and a few former regulars like Valentinesdead, Mr.Spencer, Bertha and Vector but when we do sign on, its a post or 2. Hell, even the fucking Admins rarely sign on anymore. When people want news, they go to capcom unity and so forth. This site gets a lot of new people when a new RE game is announced but look at it, OCR and Revelations has been announced and theres maybe like 10 new people who log on once. The horror here is definitely not alive lolol.

As long as the main page looks dead, the forums will not attract any newcomers any time soon. And the forum looks dead because the news section rarely gets updated at all (or on time). So they pretty much kill any interest in looking for news or being active here.

I suspect that the guys in charge know that the fish rots from the head down. And that's why they have lost all hope for this place.

Unless they give up the ship to those that want to get this thing somewhere soon.

Will they?

[Darkmoon]

As someone from a fishing town, I find fish just generally rot, you know, all over.

And I'm happy to take on some site based duties as well as my moderating stuff if needed to keep things going.