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HubCAp_
post Jun 19 2009, 09:23 PM
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Let's face it. This community is dieing. Most of the people in the past years have moved on.

Now with the new release of Tony Hawk: Ride, do any of you expect the same excitement as the previous tony hawk games?
I remember everyone being so excited for THUG (omg walking!). Now it seems no one cares and has moved on.

I understand in an act to keep this community alive, bgoat has moved on to all activision games.

Do any of you expect this community to ever be as populated as it was just even a year ago? I remember when there were like 20+ forum members active per month. Now I only see up to 5-6 people every month or so.

Maybe the another reason why this once populated BGOAT community has gone down is becuase of lack of excitement for the new Tony hawk games.

I remember back in 2004ish I first found bgoat back when you guys were on proboards. I was young, but I remember wanting to part of BGOAT becuase of the active community.

I remember when everyone thought wiz was female.

Looking back now, I remember how active the whole tony hawk video game community was in general. TXO even got its own channel in THUG1. I remember that all the tony hawk game's servers were all full with people. Now if you go onto one of the few remaining games with servers or backup servers, you will notice there is a very small tight dedicated community. maybe I ever only see 2-3 servers with 15 people total on THUG1 ps2 online.

I remember when the big ol' announcement that THPS4 was going offline on New Years (it actually stayed up till like the 11th). I remember staying up till midnight to play it one last time. that was probably one of the most active nights in THPS4 ps online history.

Now onto THUG2... man all I can remember was mayhem. People freeze texting you, freeze taunting you, modded CAS', colored names, modded CAPS, freeze flags, gameshark, full servers with mIRC spam, etc.
Even with all this going on, I found myself logging back in after resetting my frozen ps2 playing ring of fire over and over in a nonstop loop.
There was a whole community built just from modding the game itself. Then when gamespy had enough with all the Vault hacking, they shut it down for good. That is when I think the whole TH community went downhill.

then there was THAW. While still having an active community, it never felt the same as in the previous games.
Now from thps4-thug2, I was mostly glitching with lots of people. when thaw came, it had almost the same glitches as THUG2 had. (With exception of the Air Shuffle)
That is when I just quit glitching all together becuase it was boring.

then THP8 and the next gen consoles roll around. No online for ps2, ps3 versions. That is when I thought the community was going to die for sure.
THPG came out with still no online for [at that time] current-gen systems. THPG on next-gen wasn't all that great either especially with a broken voice communication system for the ps3 version. Now at this time, a lot of people still had ps2 and were happy. why they didn't want their half-alive current ps2 community to live is beyond me.

Then when skate came out, everyone all of a sudden got on the EA bandwagon and talked down to TH for realism and took most of their few remaining fan base.



Now I don't remember when this was, but when THAW went offline unannounced, that killed it. there were no games left to play on. Then when they decided to put THAW back up, it was Wayyyyyyy too late. Everyone moved on and gave up on the series.




Then when Neversoft decided that GH was where the money was, they left the TH series to continue making money becuase they are a business of course.

Now Neversoft was my favorite developer. Their humor that they put into the game and all those behind the scenes videos were all very distinct from any other developer. I STILL remember when they had that kickflip contest in their office (in thps3 videos).

I remember the distinct humor in the story lines and the darksides around their levels.





Now that it is 2009, I think everyone was tired of the same old stuff and moved on. No longer are the massive glitch database posts.

When TXO died, BGOAT was and still is the only long-term TH community left.


Now what is the future of the whole BGOAT community? We've seen the best of times and the worst of times for TH games and the community.

I'm sure keeping these sites up and running costs a lot of money. I'm wondering (to wiz) when is it time to call it quits? As much as I would hate to see it, I think there is no going uphill from here for BGOAT community. Or at least the glitching side of it.

Now i've been apart of this community for 7 years. I can't remember anyone besides the hardcore BGOAT members that are still here.

those 7 years though have been a blast. Now though, it seems everyone has grown up and moved on.

As the only TH community to still exist (as far as I know) when will the time be?
When will BGOAT finally end?

Now I don't want BGOAT to end or the community, but be realistic, don't expect to still be here when we are all 40+.

Now to wrap things up, I just want to know, what is the future of BGOAT?

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Well, everything else will be a surprise.

Porting THPS4 levels is a mere side effect of what I'm working on.


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- HubCAp_   The Future Of Bgoat?   Jun 19 2009, 09:23 PM
- - GlitchMasterBiz   notHubCAp (10:26:09 PM): go check out the BGOAT fo...   Jun 19 2009, 09:31 PM
- - ROOK Master wiz   BGOAT's prime time was THUG/THUG2. thats when ...   Jun 20 2009, 10:48 PM
- - GlitchMasterBiz   hell we still have aleast 50+ visits from guests e...   Jun 21 2009, 06:32 PM
- - ROOK Master wiz   Ya those guests are most likely spider bots for se...   Jun 21 2009, 07:43 PM
- - uɐlʎp   I wish I still had a PS2 or my PS3 could play PS2 ...   Jun 22 2009, 03:50 PM
- - =bgizzoat=ukjmn   my old xbl tag before it got banned/canceled for u...   Jun 22 2009, 08:56 PM
- - Chase   I'll save it! Gimme a little time.   Jun 23 2009, 01:37 AM
- - uɐlʎp   QUOTE (Chase @ Jun 22 2009, 10:37 PM) I...   Jun 23 2009, 02:44 PM
|- - Chase   No, that's not what that is. Also, I'm co...   Jun 23 2009, 06:55 PM
- - uɐlʎp   So, your saying, carnival on thug? Epic.   Jun 23 2009, 08:44 PM
- - =bgizzoat=ukjmn   so what your saying is a game we've played for...   Jun 24 2009, 03:38 AM
- - uɐlʎp   /me is excited and getting giddy   Jun 24 2009, 09:15 AM
- - HubCAp_   Wow now all I need to do is actually find an activ...   Jun 24 2009, 09:28 AM
- - GlitchMasterBiz   Chase, i think you are doing an epic job. I think ...   Jun 24 2009, 01:54 PM
- - uɐlʎp   http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GYXWYFO9 Theres THUG...   Jun 24 2009, 04:27 PM
- - Chase   Don't get panties in a knot, because it's ...   Jun 24 2009, 07:24 PM
- - GlitchMasterBiz   so i do not need to download those files you will ...   Jun 25 2009, 02:32 AM
- - HubCAp_   Thank you for the links. Is the online on the p...   Jun 25 2009, 12:49 PM
- - =bgizzoat=ukjmn   3 weeks and not a single post. great job everyone....   Jul 16 2009, 07:29 PM
- - Scofield«±»   Whatever maybe it's not active now but if you ...   Jul 17 2009, 02:05 PM
- - GlitchMasterBiz   Yea based on the actual activity in the actual gam...   Jul 19 2009, 06:05 PM
- - HubCAp_   QUOTE (GlitchMasterBiz @ Jul 19 2009, 07...   Jul 21 2009, 09:40 PM
|- - ROOK Master wiz   QUOTE (HubCAp_ @ Jul 21 2009, 10:40 PM) i...   Jul 22 2009, 12:40 PM
|- - =BGOAT= water   QUOTE (ROOK Master wiz @ Jul 22 2009, 12...   Jul 23 2009, 05:03 PM
- - GlitchMasterBiz   No its not based on life or death. bGoat just does...   Jul 23 2009, 06:20 PM
- - =bgizzoat=ukjmn   who actually clicks on ads? anyone? really?   Jul 24 2009, 12:07 PM
|- - =BGOAT= water   QUOTE (=bgizzoat=ukjmn @ Jul 24 2009, 12...   Jul 24 2009, 02:43 PM
- - Embro   I'm very interested in that THUG/THPS4 thing c...   Jul 27 2009, 06:52 PM
- - GlitchMasterBiz   ever since i redid the logo and made the banners e...   Jul 27 2009, 08:19 PM
- - pinky dinkydOod   hOly smOkes :-/ yuppp been awhile, sup guys? its c...   Jul 30 2009, 05:03 AM
- - skrattahögtmunk   Oh hello there. Glad to see there there are still ...   Aug 1 2009, 11:53 PM
- - Oompa   QUOTE (=BGOAT= water @ Jul 24 2009, 03:43...   Aug 13 2009, 03:22 PM
- - ROOK Master wiz   We could use Jenna Jamisons I mean Daisy's boo...   Aug 13 2009, 06:29 PM
|- - =BGOAT= water   QUOTE (ROOK Master wiz @ Aug 13 2009, 06...   Aug 14 2009, 07:49 AM
- - Graves (Skril)   I was wondering about the bGoat tag aswell. Thank...   Sep 24 2009, 11:47 AM


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