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2 comments by Sticky on Jan 31st, 2008 digg this super bookmark


After spending a while bumbling around pwned.com I noticed that there are similarities and differences between ModDB.

Pwned's Positives


The most striking thing on Pwned is the ability to earn "points" which denote activity and overall use of the site. These "points" then can be spent in the store on items like games (25,000-45,000 points), video game consoles (they offer up a Wii for a paltry 200,000 points, and more powerful systems like a 360 Elite and a PS3 for 350k and 400k points, respectively) and this encourages site activity, both through forum posts, posting blogs, and using the "Shoutbox" a kind of constant forum where there's usually always someone to talk to. Adding games that were conspicuously absent from the list will net you points as well. Interacting with others is also encouraged. They even have a forum designed specifically for Stimor and MadKill style spammishness.

The community there is also very friendly and I've recieved several friend requests and there is a growing ModDB shootoff branch from there. Bunnyjen, Gin, Krayzie, even BlueWolf is there! It is also home to a host of companies. Rockstar Games has a profile there, and a group that protects gamer rights from government interference is gaining a large following.

 

Pwned's Negatives


Generally, the only gripes I have are the slightly difficult to use blog poster, which is moderately inferior to ModDB's blog creator, and the strict policies for adding games, but once you know the protocol, even that becomes almost breezily relaxed. Also, there's no modification file, but the site is still in the beta, and something like that could come later on.

 

ModDB's Positives


A somewhat active forum, and of course, the endless mods. A strong central base of users who know each other and form a kind of loose member confederacy.

 

ModDB's Negatives


The "somewhat active forum" is losing members little by little and you'll get different answers from different people. Leilei will tell you the n00bs are fucking everything up and everybody who has a member number higher than 1000 will surely burn in the Stygian pits of hell. Newbies will tell you that the older members are relentless in torturing of new members, potentially driving them off for good. The forum policies are also becoming increasingly heavy handed. I dare say it's getting worse than my reign as Forum Moderator and Member Manager, when advertising for a potential sister-site to ModDB as a kind of gamer MySpace is locked without so much as a second thought.

Also, of the "endless mods" mostly are for HL, HL2, or BF2 and not everybody on earth owns those games. I don't own any of them, and while the mods in those sections grow in number, mods for games I actually own are becoming more and more scarce, either becoming archived or the mod team closing up shop and effectively scuttling the mod project.

 

Sticky's Analysis


ModDB has been great. Really. I've grown to love the forum with it's (now-gone) quirky members. But pwned.com immediately captured me with it's friendly userbase and rapid member growth rate. If ModDB can't take some cues and at least try to make the site more user-friendly, more intuitive, and offer more incentives for activity, then I might have to say farewell to the site I've called my homepage for nearly five years.

 

If you'd like to sign up to Pwned, then follow this link and sign up.

 

 

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This group has been formed to gather the people who enjoy Japanese anime and all of its facets, to salute the people from the land of the Rising Sun.

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Escapist Magazine

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The Escapist Magazine is home to some of the best Game reviewers on the net, and I'm here to post it all here onto this Group.

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Have your homepage set as the Forums? Join the legions of those addicted to sweet, sweet, forums.

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Senior members are members of the modDB community held in highesteem for their contributions to the site or their work on the staff.

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BlckWyerve
BlckWyerve May 10 2007, 12:26am says:

Been a while since I've come through to harass you..

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BlckWyerve
BlckWyerve May 11 2007, 12:17am says:

Ok, fine.

Im in ur profile,
botherin

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Baza
Baza May 9 2007, 9:53am says:

OOOOOOOOOOOOO... sticky has voice acting samples :O

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Jiffy_No0b
Jiffy_No0b May 8 2007, 5:59pm says:

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Dr.Noob
Dr.Noob Jul 9 2007, 3:47pm says:

XD
Thanks for the review.

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Dr.Noob
Dr.Noob Jul 9 2007, 3:29pm says:

Gawd. How is the Darkness? Heard it was pretty cool. Havent heard of overlord yet.

Shadowrun Was ok. Not So fun. But-thing is......
MY 360 IS GATHERING DUST

I bought Counter Strike Anthology....GOD IM SORRY
BUT CS IS SOOOOOOOOO ADDICTIVE

Pull me out, Sticky! Pull me Out!

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Dr.Noob
Dr.Noob Apr 29 2007, 1:32pm says:

I tried to umm kill the shai gen leader nade whore with %7.
And i half raped him until his men anal raped me.
I walked in with a Nade Launcher and the R launcher
and raped almost everyone-until i got to him.
I played the game so much that my B button sticks now, cuz of me being a total retard and kicking the volk leader about 50 mil times.
Ahh, those were the days.

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insanegamer26
insanegamer26 Apr 28 2007, 8:50pm says:

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Karuto
Karuto Apr 24 2007, 11:23am says:

"Uhh... Houstan, we have lift-off...

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deffiance
deffiance Apr 15 2007, 6:05am says:

The last Shai-Gen guy is a grenading whore. I kicked him to death.

P.S Hello Sticky!

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