Alex95 Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 (edited) Another forum I'm part of that helps me figure out how to make my game, RPG Maker Forums, looks and works EXACTLY how SF does. So I thought "Why not do a comparison?" Well.... At least we've posted more topics! We got that going for us! SF's also a lot more fun, so that might be the cause of it. Completely pointless thread, but that's what FftF is for! ...Right? Anyone else part of forums that look like Serenes Forest? Comparisons of your own? Edited January 10, 2016 by Power Master Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Masayoshi Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Which RPG maker are you using as comparison? They're two RPG maker forums Also because RPG Maker isn't a game series, but a dev forum, so there's gonna be less posts, and more members with questions, and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex95 Posted January 10, 2016 Author Share Posted January 10, 2016 There are two? Huh. Didn't know that. Well I'm using http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/ What's the other one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Masayoshi Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 There are two? Huh. Didn't know that. Well I'm using http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/ What's the other one? http://www.rpgmakervxace.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex95 Posted January 10, 2016 Author Share Posted January 10, 2016 (edited) Huh. Alright. I'll just stick with RPG Maker forum for now. No point in being part of multiple forums that cover the same thing. Edited January 10, 2016 by Power Master Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magical Glace Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 From a DQ forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Masayoshi Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Huh. Alright. I'll just stick with RPG Maker forum for now. No point in being part of multiple forums that cover the same thing. the vxace forum is much better than the site one imo anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex95 Posted January 10, 2016 Author Share Posted January 10, 2016 From a DQ forum I didn't know you were a DQ fan! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
claire Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magical Glace Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 I didn't know you were a DQ fan!I'm a huge DQ fan DQVII Hype! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garnef Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 PureZC: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tangerine Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 (edited) SF has always punched above its weight class. You'll be hard pressed to find a forum as active as ours without many more registered users. The difference is that people stay here when they join, as opposed to posting for a couple months and leaving. It helps that we have such a diverse group of users as well; very few of our sections are inactive. Among dedicated Nintendo fan forums, only Serebii is more active than us in all ways as far as I know. Edited January 11, 2016 by Tangerine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euklyd Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Among dedicated Nintendo fan forums, only Serebii is more active than us in all ways as far as I know.smashboards? serebii: smashboards: (with 1500 currently online users) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tangerine Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 (edited) Smash represents more than a single series lol. I don't think it could possibly be considered in the same league as a forum dedicated to a single game franchise, since by default it draws fans from every single Nintendo franchise including our own. That Pokemon is even close to it is testament to how popular it really is. Excluding that, it is curious that Serebii has over 150,000 more threads but less posts. I don't use either forum, but I'm guessing Smash Boards has a lot of forum games or thread series that attract a lot of people. Edited January 11, 2016 by Tangerine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex95 Posted January 11, 2016 Author Share Posted January 11, 2016 I'm a huge DQ fanDQVII Hype! Yeah, im excited for 7 and 8, but i would like to see 10 localized as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euklyd Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 I don't see why that matters. It's not like there's overlap between SF and Smash fans that there isn't between SF and Pokemon fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tangerine Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 (edited) Apart from the fact that our Smash Bros section on SF itself is nearly twice as active (and receives nearly 3x the daily visitors) as our Pokemon section? I'd say that is a pretty clear indication that Smash Bros has a significantly higher overlap value in the fandom. To suggest that any series could have equal overlap value with Smash in any fandom that Smash has significant representation for is insane lol. Especially one with as many representatives as FE. Pokemon might be the only one I'd consider reasonable, because it attracts a lot of casual gamers who might not even play other Nintendo titles to the extent that they'd call themselves fans. Edited January 11, 2016 by Tangerine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naughx Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 (edited) Fanbases tend to like when their favorite characters appear in Smash so it will draw a lot of attention. --- Pretty sure a lot of Metroid fans would like to have a Chozo Ghost or something. Edited January 11, 2016 by Naughx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuxSpes Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Fanbases tend to like when their favorite characters appear in Smash so it will draw a lot of attention. --- Pretty sure a lot of Metroid fans would like to have a Chozo Ghost or something. Sure, Metroid fans love Chozo Ghosts nearly as much as they love Dark Pirate Commandos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Smash represents more than a single series lol. I don't think it could possibly be considered in the same league as a forum dedicated to a single game franchise, since by default it draws fans from every single Nintendo franchise including our own. That Pokemon is even close to it is testament to how popular it really is. Excluding that, it is curious that Serebii has over 150,000 more threads but less posts. I don't use either forum, but I'm guessing Smash Boards has a lot of forum games or thread series that attract a lot of people. Smash Boards has a LOT of subforums - find a game, then find a character, and that's a subforum! I'm a horrible person that still plays Falco, and this trend started in Brawl, so if I want to talk about the blue bird, I'll have to post on the Falco subforum for the correct game. Not that it's a bad thing, because a lot changes between games! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tryhard Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Oh, I remember that RPG Maker site - I posted a guide on there and then buggered off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euklyd Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Apart from the fact that our Smash Bros section on SF itself is nearly twice as active (and receives nearly 3x the daily visitors) as our Pokemon section? I'd say that is a pretty clear indication that Smash Bros has a significantly higher overlap value in the fandom. To suggest that any series could have equal overlap value with Smash in any fandom that Smash has significant representation for is insane lol. Especially one with as many representatives as FE. Pokemon might be the only one I'd consider reasonable, because it attracts a lot of casual gamers who might not even play other Nintendo titles to the extent that they'd call themselves fans. [spoiler=this stuff doesn't actually matter nvm]a) the vast majority of all the SF smash activity is limited to the equivalent of a chat thread for smash bros, and much of the rest is mindless arguing about sakurai's character selection. that's not indicative of greater overlap, it's indicative that smash fans have a lot more to make posts whining about (or defending against whining). b) pokemon games are the subject of the other forum being compared to. pokemon also has a far larger userbase in general than smash, and definitely more widespread recognition. it's by no means "insane" to suggest that a franchise so much larger than smash might have a greater overlap. c) I still don't see how player overlap matters; smash bros is a nintendo franchise with a fan forum that is more active than SF or serebii. it is a genre of games unlike any of its nintendo constituents. if someone buys smash, pokemon, and FE, there's no reason to think they'll register for and be active on all three forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Water Mage Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 You know, this discussion makes me wonder, what does the other fandoms and the rest of the internet think of us? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tangerine Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Probably nothing apart from "they exist". Most probably don't even know that if they aren't personally interested in the series, lol! SF is really active for its memberbase, but the FE community is still too tiny to make a large forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwlr Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 (edited) Among dedicated Nintendo fan forums, only Serebii is more active than us in all ways as far as I know. Serebii's activity has dropped off quite a bit recently or so I'm told anyway. Excluding that, it is curious that Serebii has over 150,000 more threads but less posts. I don't use either forum, but I'm guessing Smash Boards has a lot of forum games or thread series that attract a lot of people. It's not curious to me. The mods over there are pretty terrible (a widely accepted view from members there and my personal view) and in general there is constant drama. [spoiler=Specific examples for Serebii]I recall an instance where a member made an art shop there and was simply using art others made to fill their requests including art that people on Serebii made for other people, this was proven by linking to the posts they were taking the art from however the mods didn't ban the member or do anything at all actually. The mods get annoyed if you report posts for rule violations or don't follow the rules themselves, a big one is the sig size limit, people completely ignore the filesize limit and have sigs several megabytes large when the limit is a cumulative 500kb so you either have to turn off sigs or deal with all those sigs loading anytime you go anywhere. Then there is the general consensus that mods favor their friends in any circumstance regardless of what actually happened all in all it doesn't surprise me that people don't post there. By Smashboards do you mean SWF, AllisBrawl, or some other one? Haven't been on SWF for years, but whilst I was there there was a lot of hoping X gets in or Y gets in, those threads got A LOT of posts (several hundred posts each), haven't been here terribly long, but this forum appears to lack those type of long winded wishful threads Edited January 11, 2016 by Dwlr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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