[dooch]

Ok, here's my opinion.

I really like the subject matter. Something which lots of ppl can rant and rave about. I rent 2 game servers so I know the score.

So thats a great basis for a forum, however... 1st impressions to me is thats its very bland and not geared towards the gaming community. How about some nice glossy photoshoped images for the header... ie quake / c/strike / BF2 / WoW characters behind the .com name.

Maybe use a hack to make the icons different for each section. It needs livening up.

Obviously the forums are very dead so you need to get advertising / spamming. If this was to take off then you may get some interest from the big game hosts for a bit of advertising.

Also I cant tell whether this is a EU UK US, whatever based website. So someone could write a review on say Multiplay.co.uk which would be pretty useless if the website is for the US.

Overall

Great potential, good idea. Needs tarting up, maybe a sexier template. Needs advertising or users. Maybe spam your own board in the beginning with spoof users, use the fake stats hack and make it look a little bit more alive. Also, dont start a forum off with too many categories.. its spreads the content too thin. This can always be sorted again later when the board is a little bit more busy. Also concider the use of a portal such as vbadvanced for a news page etc. This is what I have done.

Hope this helped.

Dooch