So yeah, I think these images should speak for themselves: https://imgur.com/a/rhTEePY
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Gamefaqs has been dead of real value for years. Their only useful continued traffic has been to text guides for games too old to get anything modern.
Like, their forums were a Tumblr-lite shithole in the 2000s, this is almost perfectly on brand for them and the correct type of market research for the users of the site.
Still a great site for console games and Jrpgs that the big sites don't bother with.
Oh yeah, I still use it regularly because there really isn't a replacement for it nor the great value that a good Text Guide can provide. Especially older games where the level of effort put into some is well above most paid guides of the time.
But if you venture off the guide section at all, its nothing but the most juvenile and proto-woke idiots possible.
I didn't even know they had anything but the guides. I've only ever been to their site by linking from a search for a walk thru.
In their own words:
It would be worth scraping the site, and setting up an "archival project" complete with at least the appearance of DMCA reporting functionality just to bleed them of 99% of their traffic.