A New Era Beginning Soon at OS...

[iLLWiLL]

Change is needed. Why I am still greeted with this large MFL Mutant Football League image to an article of a game that -- for me, personally -- I care absolutely nothing about? How old is that article anyway, 2-3 weeks old? It's way past stale.

I do like the idea of more videos; however like most people have said, I do prefer silently reading the content and obviously it's faster to get the information that way than to have a video load, and either wait for or fast-forward to the information you are looking for.

Overall, looking forward to a fresh new look...

[Bigg Cee]

I can't wait to see what happens!

I hope I can still make my fight night threads looks sweet.

Also finally we're getting rid of the number rating next to your name. It's worthless if it's broken and no one else can rank up. I want my number higher then a 0 but can't since it has never worked for me.

[ffaacc03]

Change is always welcomed ... then again, as long as you guys keep the text articles, all will be fine with me ... even more, if you do some video or podcast based article I would really appreciate some text along with it, like a summary or something alike.

[SportsGameGod]

So in other words go to Metacritic for reviews and go anywhere else for coverage of games since everyone thinks they have present things exactly the same.

[The Senator]

Can't say I like much of anything I read about this overhaul. I couldn't care less about social media, I access the site on my computer and never had a problem with that, I much prefer reading a good well written article over watching some video(I can read much faster than you'll speak, and can multitask easier that way), and I feel that when it comes to sports games, e-sports hurt our genre much more than it helps, in terms of providing a solid, realistic "sim" approach.

I always thought that one of the best aspects of the OS community is that we're generally in agreement that we want to see our games reflect the sports they represent in as accurate a way as we can get without compromising the gaming experience. E-sports generally move away from that and take away many of the real aspects of the sport to replace it with a sterile "fair" environment to foster big money matches, with Madden being the biggest example. Anything that takes away from the purity of the stick skill gets purged from the game, like botched snaps or penalties away from the ball.

I digress however, as an old school user of the site who peruses the articles on my PC, I just don't see much good coming for my experience, and I'm sure I'm not alone here. All I ask is that people like me are considered in this change, too.

[RaychelSnr]

Quote: Originally Posted by The Senator

Can't say I like much of anything I read about this overhaul. I couldn't care less about social media, I access the site on my computer and never had a problem with that, I much prefer reading a good well written article over watching some video(I can read much faster than you'll speak, and can multitask easier that way), and I feel that when it comes to sports games, e-sports hurt our genre much more than it helps, in terms of providing a solid, realistic "sim" approach. I always thought that one of the best aspects of the OS community is that we're generally in agreement that we want to see our games reflect the sports they represent in as accurate a way as we can get without compromising the gaming experience. E-sports generally move away from that and take away many of the real aspects of the sport to replace it with a sterile "fair" environment to foster big money matches, with Madden being the biggest example. Anything that takes away from the purity of the stick skill gets purged from the game, like botched snaps or penalties away from the ball. I digress however, as an old school user of the site who peruses the articles on my PC, I just don't see much good coming for my experience, and I'm sure I'm not alone here. All I ask is that people like me are considered in this change, too.

I'll restate what I said earlier in the thread: we're looking to add aspects to the site not take anything away.

Nowhere in this announcement are we saying we are replacing text content with multimedia or sim content with e-sports -- the desire is to add it on top of what we're already doing. If anything, our new CMS and more modern architecture on the backend is going to greatly enhance/enable our ability to deliver even more text-based content as well.

[spoofrice11]

Quote: Originally Posted by ggsimmonds

I understand the reasoning and need for the change(s), and I get that it may be the right move for you guys, but I don't like most of these changes. My personal opinion: 1. That image makes OS look something like a clickbait nest. Not sure why, layout just looks generic and cheap to me. 2. I always prefer articles over videos. Now more videos doesn't mean fewer articles right? 3. A little nervous with mention of e-sports.

I agree. Not sure I will like these changes.

This is my favorite site to go to for video games. Hopefully it's not messed up because some people check it on their phones. I think looking at internet stuff on a phone is dumb if it's not something you have to check.. It's hard to see and it's so much easier to do things on a computer.