(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); okay like i said purely my opinion, i am no veteran on this site i think i joined in like 2009 and i remember hitting 150k members maybe even less i dunno so i hope my opinion actually means something to someone else.

but i joined this site mainly as i was into gaming and i loved doing glitches on W@W but i find i'm unable to even go into the individual gaming sections without being bombarded with Mr X 1337 hacker trying to shift his edit of a patch or trying to sell his service to hacks my account, yes i admit i did jailbreak my console but only for like a week before i decided meh this is boring to me, i know other people find it fun and some people are really good at it one name springs to mind: juddy.

i'm far from being the most active user on this site i barely even comment any more as there is very little that interests me anymore i know this is a major rant and i'll probably get a umadbro or if your not happy GTFO, but really should i have to GTFO for expressing an opinion on a matter thats actually incredibly annoying, i was here when the leechers crashed the site for the ps3 CFW and i accept that not everyone was a leecher but its just a shame to see what was such a great and helpful community turn into this fest of little kids trying to be the next mossy to their friends.

okay rant over just saying i miss NGU (also realised this thread may same pointless to some but i figured i might aswell post it here instead of talking to a brick wall although some of the users on this sit have the intellect of one :L)

thankyou very much please feel free to take the piss below

OK I'll chime in with my 2 cents on the subject.

Everything changes over time on a site like this or any other forum.
Membership comes and goes for different reasons and the topics that are popular change as well.

As the site has grown it has lost some of its smaller community feel and has become a large site that doesn't seem to recognize the importance of new membership's value to it.This has been done by the membership as well as it's staff and ex-staff.

Too much of the Membership (some of whom have only been here a short period) are too harsh on others and show no tolerance or willingness to help newer membership.
They seem to view themselves as having to enforce rules or standards on the site through negative comments, Flip answers, or sending some kind of punishment for mistakes or errors made by others.

Staff and often ex-staff, over the last 2 years, loose focus on the community aspect of the site as well.
Sometimes forgetting that we are guides more than police and we need to be a part of the community and not above it.

I think the fundamental change is that everyone thinks we have "made it" now and don't need to try and build the place up like it's a new site.
We may not be new anymore and we are continuing to increase in membership, but the active member numbers remain somewhat the same ( about 4 to 6 K) and the ratio is declining as membership increases.

Once that mentality pervades the membership and staff, you lose any chance of a community feel to the place, Which it seems that most posting in this thread are saying they miss.


Recently I feel like there has been a lot of positive change in Membership and Staff's attitude towards the site and each other and I am genuinally encouraged about NGU's future, even if I will always miss the small community feel the place had back in the Day

Too many members that are inactive has ruined this forum. Most forums are dead now except for the ****ing COD section. This isn't just a COD forum.

That's all I really have to say honestly. To tired to type out an essay about why things in life always change.

The site's going to change. It always will. Two years here, and I've seen it. You can't stop it. You can't bring back the past with one thread. Just make the best of what it is now, and with some searching in the so called, "playground for morons", you'll find something you like.

people saying i should do something about it? well for one im hardly well known on this site and i am frankly suprised at the amount of attention this thread has gotten and also cheers for t3h r3p...... no :L i don't know the first thing to do about making this site the way it was but heres what i do know, it will never be the same, heres the way i think of it now.

Ngu when i first got here was kinda like cod4 it was nice, new and fresh, now its more like mw3 where things are getting repetitive and there is alot more to complain about (also more kids playing it) lord knows we all love to complain about stuff :L

But that has always been the heart of this community. Back when I joined and there was less than 5,000 members what brought everyone to the forums was Call of Duty and it was what all of the members had in common.

I have to agree that this site is far from what it used to be however like many mods have already said things change. Especially after almost 4 years of being here I've seen A LOT of changes.

For me when I knew this site was changed in a big way was when I saw people openly getting angry at people who wanted to hack and glitch. I knew from then on the site was moving on from its roots. I would never have thought that a glitching community with under 5,000 people into it would have turned into the current NGU with people who come here for so many different reasons other than to be a hacker (I still laugh at what we used to consider hacking) and glitcher.

i also miss the old ngu, before all of these CL's happend

Most of the people who I met on here and still play with are either Banned from the site or consider it too childish ( As in full of trolls/cod kiddies). I agree we need more Older Users but with Cod being more Child friendly with every release and Outie sticking to this being mainly a Cod forum there will always be more children>Adults which from a Business sense is Great since Tweens generate the most profits for Video games and for Video game forums.

I miss you as staff.