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Originally Posted by Gio~Logist

I see new gaming forums made every day. Can't remember the last time I saw one made with a very modern and in-depth homepage, a few custom systems for their gamers to utilize, an amazing skin, and an assortment of game reviews. That to me is what would make an established gaming website.

Did you take a look at the home page of the forum? Some of the articles I have posted span 13+ years of gaming history - http://www.elgms.com/

One of the things that I have tried to bring to the site is a since of history and maturity. A lot of people that open gaming sites are young, they might be in their early 20, with less then 5 years online gaming experience.

I started online gaming back around 1995 or 1996 with Quakeworld, Diablo 1 and Command and Conquer Red Alert.

Heck, I remember riding my bicycle to the corner store with my buddies, buying a coke, and putting quarters into the arcade in the early 1980s. This was before a lot of "gamers" were ever born.

I fully understand what your saying by gaming sites being all over the place. But very few offer "quality" content. The ability to post that content only comes through experience and first hand knowledge.

Its impossible to buy a game like team fortress 2, and post a quality article on "Team Fortess" - because the author has no experience with other games in that field. Only if the author has played Quake world team fortress, team fortress classic, fortress forever and finally team fortress 2 can they offer a quality and experienced opinion.

And that is what I am seeing these days. Noobs buy a game, play it for 4 months and consider themselves experts in the field. When they have no real experienc outside of a single game.