Originally Posted by
danawhitaker
Something like that had been my intention initially, for all the consoles and handhelds. Unfortunately, the 12th snuck up on me with everything else I had to do and I didn't realize it until the night of the 11th. I started copying some stuff on the 11th. What I wasn't sure of - and what they weren't clear about - was whether they'd be up all day on the 12th and *then* go dark, or whether they'd go dark at some random point that day. Unfortunately, it was earlier in the day than I'd anticipated them going down, and I missed my opportunity.
I did my first work on my own database post-allgame.com on Saturday. I supplemented with info from GameFAQs and for the most part was satisfied. I discovered what I'm going to miss it most for is determining for old games whether something is a Sears clone and also for classifying categories for new games as they're released. And unfortunately the first half of my database uses them for Developer and Publisher info. While I can get that information elsewhere (though I found checking among various sources there's often not a lot of consistency in the way names are formatted or how companies are referred to) it's going to bug me to lose that consistency. Over time, I can eventually attempt to normalize that between the halves of the database, but that's a large undertaking.
In regards to the person who had Norton flagging spyware, that's strange, and I wouldn't be surprised if that were a false reading. I don't trust Norton at all after what it did on one of my systems in the past (constant false alerts, and then it started causing my machine to BSOD at random after an update). I used the site for years across multiple systems and not once did I have any kind of spyware. I admit, I also adblock and flashblock and block pretty much any kind of scripting there is except on a case-by-case basis, so maybe I was bypassing some tainted ads.
I have to admit, thinking back over the past year, I should have seen this coming. The search feature was completely broken for almost a week at one point on the site, with absolutely no response from their support team. Then I noticed shortly before the announcement the search was screwed up another way, and never got a response from support with that either. That error wasn't *as* screwed up, but was still pretty bad, in that searching for specific titles wouldn't yield any results, but dropping a word or two from the title would bring it up. Alas. It was clear also from the fact they hadn't added PS4 and Xbox One to their main page that less and less attention was being paid to the site. Though, for all those failings, they were often on the nose with new releases - often more accurate than Game Informer, Joystiq, or GameSpot. On that note, does anyone have an *accurate* site for listing all new retail releases each week? I right now use a combination of several sites and then error-check it by seeing which games have been released on Amazon in the past 30 days. It's rare for any of my sources to be accurate each week. They either miss a console or two from each release, or they end up leaving off less popular titles entirely. I'm interested in all retail releases regardless of how "cool" they're going to be.
Oh no! Allgame.com shutting down Dec 12th
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