<h2>Mobygames? Yeah, you were great once</h2>

Seems like Mobygames has been bought by Gamefly and has lost basically everything that made Mobygames the resource they were. The site is a slow, buggy, redesigned mess that makes you wonder if this is some kind of joke. Unfortunately it isn't. The change has caused an uproar amongst many of the the long time contributors - and honstely I can't blame them: it looks like it was designed by a group of drunken midgets on ponies.
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But even if the design is what looks completely different at first, there are a multitude of other issues here, one is the fact people feel cheated by the founders that they could sell it out to a conglormerate that wants nothing more than to absorb and dissolve. <br /><br />
There is a long backstory here and <a href="http://www.mobygames.com/forums/dga,2/dgb,4/dgm,180655/"><strong>you should read about it here</strong></a>. <br />
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It's easy to understand that the users and the community that made Mobygames into the exemplary resource it once was, react with things like updating their avatars to the mistrust and complete lack of respect Gamefly has shown. And heck, we have all reasons too. Here's a couple of examples:<br />
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<img src="http://www.mobygames.com/images/i/06/18/1623768.png"/>
<img src="http://www.mobygames.com/images/i/45/32/1625032.gif" /><br />
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Plenty of users have also left the site, leaving on their profile statements that they will not take this insult of a fiasco. One of the top contributors and been there since the beginning, <a href="http://www.mobygames.com/user/sheet/view/reviews_written/userSheetId,6226/"><strong>YID Yang</strong></a>, has this on his profile:

<blockquote>I have worked hard on this website for twelve years. In 2010 its founders sold it to GameFly for an undisclosed sum and under unknown conditions, without notifying the community. This resulted in three years of agony and vain hope during which we were unable to establish any sort of communication with either GameFly or their representative on the site. Then, in September 2013, this atrocious re-design that you see now replaced the old comfortable design without as much as a notification. This design is not only ugly: half of the features that made MobyGames a great site are either removed or obfuscated, and the functionality is buggy and impaired beyond belief. I boycotted this site in protest with other contributors and then left for good when all requests were ignored.
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<a href="http://www.mobygames.com/forums/dga,3/dgb,4/"><strong>The forums are also overflowing with topics</strong></a> that glow distrust to the new ownership due to how Gamefly has run things since they took over. Threads like "Mobygames is dead" and "Gamefly killed Mobygames" are just two of a well responses to how the sellout Mobygames has turned on its community.<br />
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If you ever used Mobygames, hell, even if you never did, take you time to let your voice be heard. If you ever wanted to read more about a game or do some research, Mobygames was your one stop place to get trivia, history, screenshots and other great info in an excellent package. Losing that is not acceptable and killing off great resources is NOT OK! <br /><br />Head over <a href="http://www.mobygames.com/forums/dga,3/dgb,4/"><strong>to their forums</strong></a> and let the owners know we want back what once was an incredible resource - it must not be lost. Or even better, release the copyrights on the databases so others can start carbon copying. And while you're there, feel free to tell them a thing or two about bureaucratic high horses whose only interest is making more money. <br />
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For those you want to relive how f*king great Mobygames once was, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130502073642/http://www.mobygames.com/"><strong>The Wayback Machine is here to help:</strong></a>.<br />
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Now we just have to wait until somebody HoTU's Mobygames, <a href="http://hotud.org/"><strong>like Hotud did HoTU</strong></a>.<br />
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Until next time, stay retro, keep preserving what's great and never sell out!<br />
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- bakkelun