Post: A Very Serious Thread Regarding NGU
03-22-2012, 01:54 AM #1
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I have been noticing more and more attempts from the staff of ngu to monetize from the website more, not for personal gain but for the site, most of which are very annoying.

We're only about a week and a half from the end of the month here and we're only at about 40% of the donation goal. Now these admins just seem to continually be raping us with these annoying ways to keep the site going. First we had that annoying stream up that no one really cared about (which was blocked by adblock thankfully) and then we have this new video up, and I understand this new video is less about money and more about promotion but i'll get to that later. I also notice that there's adf.ly links in the downloads section, I don't have a problem with that but if you're going to do it, at least uncensor the site name so it's not something that is not allowed but staff can still do. If you guys need donations just ask, i'm sure some members will donate for the site to stay up.


Message to admins/media
Now to the videos. We don't need to see a little introduction video especially one recorded with a calculator. Try to keep this quality>quantity thing going with the new NGS youtube please, i've already noticed the quality dropping on the nguplayer youtube. You don't see the top youtube guys posting these little videos getting 70 views, you see them posting videos that people are actually interested in and getting millions of views.
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03-22-2012, 03:32 AM #11
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I think we are lucky to have such a great site. It is free unless you want premium, thats only $10. I think money hungry would be if we had to pay a monthly fee or something. NGU need to make money aswell
03-22-2012, 03:50 AM #12
Cubs
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Originally posted by Hondarydr View Post
I do agree, it does seem like NGU has become a little "money hungry" lately but why try to hide it? Like River said, if the site needs more donations then just simply ask for more, there are more than enough members on here that would be willing to donate to help out and that includes me.

Also, about the media team. One reason I haven't been uploading as much lately is because I feel like the same old commentaries over COD and what not are just so overused on YouTube today. It would be nice if the community pitched in some and told us what they would like to see so that we can actually make videos that entertain the community. We don't know what you guys like and what you don't so we need YOU to speak up. :y:


not sure if there's a thread or something for suggestions, but here's a few things i would like to see. instead of cod montages or commentaries, i say you guys make some funny videos involving cod. whether that's trolling in game or something like that, i think people wouldl like to see that. the possibilities for that would be endless. there are WAY too many montages and commentaries out there to watch, so NGU's would be a dime a dozen. another thing that would be a commentary, but different, would be to find the worst player you've played with, spectate their game, and pretend to be them. make funny comments, stuff like that.

another thing to look into is current events. a news report would be entertaining, especially if you make it funny. find current events and ridicule them, or find obscure stories and videos.

those are just a few of my suggestions, and if you like them and think others would then go right ahead. if not, thanks for reading.

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03-22-2012, 04:00 AM #13
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03-22-2012, 05:43 AM #14
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I am going to be honest, NGU has gone shitter (don't even know if it's a word) due to the new updates, merging all the general sections into General Discussion, the NGU youtube channel, we had like 2 or 3 channels, the download section (which is only available to premiums, might as well get rid of the Premium section) and then you have that stupid stream video on top of NGU which is either blocked by AdBlock or is disabled. Ever since these updates happened, I've been less active on NGU then I was back then. Nuff said

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03-22-2012, 02:09 PM #15
xinfectedsoulx
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Originally posted by Connor View Post
When Apple releases a new product do you call them money hungry? We provide free forums for all to use. These things cost money, which is why we provide the option to help out the site by donating. By donating we give you some benefits. As for Outsiders video on the homepage, it was an introduction, not an ad. Many of us joined because of his videos, and it's great news that they may be starting up again. NextGenSource, another free service.

If you're going to be so ungrateful for what is given to you, hit the log out button for a week. I guarantee you'll be itching to come back.


Apple are money hungry, which is why I refuse to buy a new iPod until I have that amount of money as "spare change" or unless it breaks. There have been many months that the donation bar has been hitting almost 200%, meaning 2k a month. Where has all that money gone? I don't think people are "ungrateful" but I think asking people for their opinions isn't hard. If 1 admin doesn't like something, then we all can't have it, even if 200k people like it. I visit NGU as more of a habit now. The quality of posts are going down. Since I stopped playing CoD, GD and debates were the only places I'd visit. Now the quality of the posts are going down and yes, I know this cannot be controlled by the Mods/Admins, but merging them all into one made the GD area a total Cluster fuck. I have no Idea what's a video or debate with some of these stupid titles. Who ever that idea was needs demoting. No one seems to like it.

Originally posted by Gaia View Post
I am going to be honest, NGU has gone shitter (don't even know if it's a word) due to the new updates, merging all the general sections into General Discussion, the NGU youtube channel, we had like 2 or 3 channels, the download section (which is only available to premiums, might as well get rid of the Premium section) and then you have that stupid stream video on top of NGU which is either blocked by AdBlock or is disabled. Ever since these updates happened, I've been less active on NGU then I was back then. Nuff said


I agree. The amount of Youtube channels NGU have had is stupid. I can see NGS won't last long, but hey, maybe I'll be proven wrong. As long as it's controlled by the whole Admin team rather than just one member (like sesh) who then went on to become big on youtube, all thanks to this youtube channel, it might last. The content is on us, the members. Everyone seems to just bum fuck the CoD section and all the other sections suffer. GD used to be a good place, now it's getting full of shit things that isn't worth a discussion. The merging of the sections was, without a doubt, one of the most stupidest ideas this site has ever done. It's a total cluster fuck now.

At one point I'd spend quite a while in the GD area discussing things, and Elfmotats threads were some of the best discussions in their. Now he's not active, those discussions about science and space and shit are long gone. Instead we have shit threads about whose from 4chan and just people trying to troll with the old "cool story bro" (Personally I'd ban every fucker that types that). It's a joke when you try to have a serious discussion and some immature 16 year old comes in and ruins it with a meme. It would be hard to get this forum to what it used to be, but I think it could be done with time, stricter rules and an owner to lay down the law. But, would that happen? Probably not.

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03-22-2012, 05:38 PM #16
Mr.Kane
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Originally posted by River
Message to admins/media
Now to the videos. We don't need to see a little introduction video especially one recorded with a calculator. Try to keep this quality>quantity thing going with the new NGS youtube please, i've already noticed the quality dropping on the nguplayer youtube. You don't see the top youtube guys posting these little videos getting 70 views, you see them posting videos that people are actually interested in and getting millions of views.

The top youtubers dont even need good content to get views now. They are so big they get the millions of views.

anyway, I have to admit the NGUPlayer videos are not great, I wont say who i think isnt doing great as i know everyone puts effort in and it is very much appreciated.
I myself need to really get going on NGUPlayer but ive got other commitments in/outside of school that are far more important than NGU (IRL>NGU) and my last video which was ready to upload i couldnt during the DNS issues, and then when i went to find it again the file was corrupt :\ I made an edit planning on getting it on there but it got copyright flagged (which i didnt understand as the video i got the song from wasnt even flagged) so i am behind :(

NGS wont be dont by the media team as far as I know, but we will have a connection with it.

I also have asked the community in my video editing threads i post in the video editing/design section (no one comments!) what they would like to see a tutorial on from the edits i do and no one seems to post back, not even in the media section i said what effects should I do? to see if anything particular was wanted and only SS94 said syncing, i posted about 5 of my good edits in a thread with some nice effects (i think anyway) and no one commented from the media team, im sure you have probably seen me spam my links of my edits in the SB a bit, this is why!


NGU at 200K members > Every other time on NGU
03-22-2012, 05:44 PM #17
I Like Turtles
Who’s Jim Erased?
What happened with the tournaments, that was something that was recently added now seems to have gone. Gaspkay:
03-22-2012, 07:53 PM #18
Mods never listen.
03-22-2012, 07:55 PM #19
Originally posted by River
NOTE: This is not a troll thread, connor closed my last thread thinking it was trolling but this is actually serious. I took time to put this together and i'd like to see the communities response. I also know that carling has taken autoplay off, thank you for that carling. Disregard the part where I mention it being on autoplay.



I have been noticing more and more attempts from the staff of ngu to monetize from the website more, not for personal gain but for the site, most of which are very annoying.

We're only about a week and a half from the end of the month here and we're only at about 40% of the donation goal. Now these admins just seem to continually be raping us with these annoying ways to keep the site going. First we had that annoying stream up that no one really cared about (which was blocked by adblock thankfully) and then we have this new video up, and I understand this new video is less about money and more about promotion but i'll get to that later. I also notice that there's adf.ly links in the downloads section, I don't have a problem with that but if you're going to do it, at least uncensor the site name so it's not something that is not allowed but staff can still do. If you guys need donations just ask, i'm sure some members will donate for the site to stay up.


Message to admins/media
Now to the videos. We don't need to see a little introduction video especially one recorded with a calculator. Try to keep this quality>quantity thing going with the new NGS youtube please, i've already noticed the quality dropping on the nguplayer youtube. You don't see the top youtube guys posting these little videos getting 70 views, you see them posting videos that people are actually interested in and getting millions of views.

It's getting annoying as fuck, I see where you're coming from, so does the rest of the active members here. As for Hondaryn I'd help out myself too. If donations are needed, the site is filled like members like you and I who won't let the site fail. :y:

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