Are "hardcore" gamers ruining the industry?

[needler420]

GameFaqs is a vast wasteland where the forums are concerned. Go look at something like many of the Atari 2600 forums. Thousands upons thousands of postings yet none have anything to do with the topic at hand. I require at least a basic level of proper moderation to participate at a forum.

If I'm a user, it's to look up things like cheats, release dates, and rely on their database of software released for each platform.

Everything you say does not deter what I said or the sites credibility. It's well known that on gamefaqs the kids run the site rabid.

You have to realize though its the biddgest video game site with an all purpose discussion about video games. So with that you get all ages. Ask yourself what gaming forum you're on and what it's fundamentals are and you can get a sense of what the demograph will be.

Like this particular gaming site is focused on classic gaming and collectors. Any day of the week more people are in the classic section then the modern. So given that it's pretty obvious you're not going to hear a snarky 13 year old tell us about his nostaglia playing SNES as a kid.