High quality content can be hard to make and take a lot of time. And spam
Content is easy to make and little to no effort. I think people have stopped focusing on making good and meaningful full games that are high quality and instead started focusing on popularity and engagement instead. A big game at this point in time will never be as big as some of the random posts people have made and not even close to the amount of engagement you get (unless in this case it’s a colab bug even those aren’t as popular as they used to as most of them never get finished)
People like: @CreativeUsername @UnsignedArduino @PixelDoodle @InvalidProject all make high quality games that people love but those take time and there aren’t that many of us to fill the time between each game post, and of course that’s expected because these games take time witch means there are fewer HQ games altogether, and with less and less people making these games and just moving to low quality off topic stuff it can clutter up the forum and make good games harder to find.
new users being more focused on making low quality off topic posts then meaning full games
I think this has made a bit of a chain reaction where the newer user’s focus when they get to the forum isn’t the high quality games but it’s the low quality off topic content that’s all over the place thus making them pitching in on that and that becoming there focus of the forums
I do think we still have some good games still being posted but it’s getting progressively harder to find then as topics like this show up “ Just wanted to make a pixel smash tierlist” and clutters up the show and tell games area with something that’s not a game and could have just been posted in the pixel smash topic. because of that it gets progressively harder to find topics like this here’s my first game witch just makes viewing the forums as someone how just wants to see and talk about games a night mare. All and all to finish up this rant I just want to see a refocusing in making games on the forums.