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This is a good point that you'd think anyone in marketing would be able to point out instantly. No one likes empty shelf space. It makes them feel bad, like they're in a famine. Just shrinking the bar till they get more content would help it at least look less anemic.

It'd also be helpful if I could figure out how to make the site notify me when a threat i'm interested in gets posted on. That'd be great.

I honestly don't think the Forums are what will bring people back though, not without substantial renovation, particularly with integrated Facebook comments under every video and article.

I agree with this completely. They need to be about games JOURNALISM again. Not just game stuff. Articles, think pieces, analytics, that sort of thing. Bring in an economics person, a few designers, a few producers, a tech guy, a programmer girl, someone from Marketing, HR, QA, have them discuss...

Well, what you tried to do there is rather substantially different then what i'm proposing here. That was an active attempt to bring back old people to what was at the time a diminished product, one that only got worse as time progressed. This is an attempt to get people to put forth good...

So we can add "Updated Forum Functionality" to the list of upgrades that would make the site more appealing. On that note, what do you guys think about the importance of Content vs. Community? Like, if you were to go to The Escapist's owners and pitch to them, would you say they should...

I'm not sure I agree with this. Yes, the era I grew up in was sure full of games, and did give rise to The Escapist, but it wasn't because of the quality of the work or the culture at that time. Most of those games were derivative crap. I've got entire shelves of Xbox and GameCube games that are...

The lack of content feeds into a lack of views which feeds into a lack of funds which feeds into a lack of content. To break this cycle something must be done to prop up some part of the site, and that is probably going to be the content part. What I would recommend is The Escapist turning to...

There are actually a LOT of good ideas here! It'd be fantastic if there was a way to bring them to the attention of someone at the company. And honestly, I don't buy the "It's dead, move on" narrative. It once was nothing, and now it is not. It could be great once again, all it requires is...

Also, I would more blatantly label the Arcade section of the site, cause right now that's just sitting there doing nothing. I've probably managed to visit this site a hundred thousand times over the past few years and literally never even clicked on that tab till I was thinking about how I would...

So, as the other thread ( http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.941103-Who-here-misses-The-Escapists-Magazine-format-and-old-content#23735671 ) demonstrated rather fully, you guys all miss the Escapist as it once was. Active, full of life, fun, and interesting. From your experience...

Actually... you know what, I'm making a new thread...

I honestly didn't think when I started this thread that it would end up being a wake for the Escapist... The thing is, I think they could come back. If they switched their format back to editorials they'd certainly get much more traffic then they do now. I also think they should leverage...

There was a time when I came to The Escapist every day, not only for it's news, but because it always had some new piece of content. As I recall, Tuesday was The Big Picture with Movie Bob, Wednesday was (and continues to be) Zero Punctuation, Thursday was Extra Credits, and Friday... Friday was...

You don't need to take it seriously to not like this. The Escapist is a gaming news/humor site. It's not news. It's not funny. It shouldn't be here. (Or for that matter, exist at all.)