Crossfire these days

Dear users, here is a little article.

Before you read i will add this:
- I know there is already a lot of whine about CF 4.0, but i just intented to write a column with actual pageview facts
- I know that a lot of people already wrote about this particular subject, but i still try to add some decent content
- My english isn't that good.


Crossfire these days is mostly filled with boring content to no content. I know I shouldn't whine, its not that I add that much good content, but for some reason it doesnt feel as good as it did before. Everytime i check cf these days, no new content is added and most journals lack a decent story or nice pictures. 6 months ago, before the release of cf 4.0, the site was in my opinion more active and more fun to read.

Because i was curious to the statistics of crossfire due to webtraffic, i looked up the current webtraffic with Alexa(wich is not 100% guaranteed, but still quite good). http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/crossfire.nu#
You can see clearly that Alexa estimated a drop of pageviews in the last 3 months of 57.56 %.
And let's be honest, a little drop is ofcourse normal, since et is a dying game. But crossfire was the forum that kept the game quite alive for some time, with an active community on crossfire.

Now that Crossfire 4.0 is released, less and less users visit crossfire, wich is such a shame, really. I dont know if changing things back to 3.0 will help to revive ET and CF, but even with a lan comming up, i dont feel confident that ET will last long. Although i'm not to positive about both the future of CF and ET, i'm looking forward to the upcoming months with Adroits and one of the last EC's and ESL tournaments. Keep them comming, and keep creating good content.

tl;dr = Pageviews of CF are dropping by +/- 60% the last 3 months. Cf 4.0 a good decision?
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yes really a shame, I used be be a regular visitor/reader, but it lost my interest completely
agree with u in all ur points
razzah we need u =D
Can you see when cf were at the top?
Making this website is a big amount of work, asking for cf3 back, even if I agree it was better, will not motivate admins.
I'm most certainly not asking cf 3.0 back. Im just stating some facts, and trying to get a discussion going about the future of this forum and the decisions that were made, or solutions that might help crossfire in it's current state.
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I'm an admin and want CF3 back. I also know I'm not alone.
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i think this vid is fake
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in a few years ppl will say cf4 killed et :p
du schwutte

prost mein freund
yeah I noticed that, too. CF was one of the first pages I'd visit everyday and i always got a lot to read. but now im opening it and closing it almost immediately
didnt read lol

there is not even a date to the events column, you have to click to see dates..
no comment..
FUCK THE SYSTEMMMMMMMMMMMMM
august ban lifts keepin et alive
may be give a theme where you can view CF just like CF 3.0
would be nice but the theme is not all imo i think cf4 is just missing some things that made crossfire so fun to browse
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tosspot killed ET
Tosspot doesn't give a fuck about ET, the new layout is designed to entice individuals from other games who follow eSports.

Even i'm bored as fuck and cba anymore.
Agreed.

CF4 is just too demotivating to even look at.
After the familial rooms are ransacked, even the girls look at one another like strangers as if they were strangers who lived among
Safe to say that Tosspot kept EU ET comp alive for a while and he decided to end it and move on to other esport games by attracting more people interested in other games. However, cf4 only managed to get rid of most of the people still interested in ET. Even I'm visiting this shit way less than before.
As a former "contributor" and admin, I feel like the lack of contribution and action is because nothing happened after the announcement of cf4.

I really can't mock the new design, it works, looks kinda cool. But there should be some tweaks.

Some of the known contributors & community members have just disappeared, not sure why, summer? Or just because of the site?

Hard to contribute, especially the news-section, edit something = news disappear, wait for admin who isn't there to see it again.

As an admin, nothing works anymore, bogus-accounts, spam, bla bla bla. Can't handle them, site-wise.

And one of the biggest issues, it seems like Toss & other "big" guys have just abandoned the site. Nobody really cares.

Sure, there are several reasons for everything, I guess. But they could have been explained or dealt with. Now there has been nothing. So why to be interested about the site.

Enough rant, I shall still be here checking the site few times a day, but don't care about it that much anymore. I hope it will be fixed at some point, but it will be late soon if the normal users get the feeling that it is gone for good.
agree with every word
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I left this site because crossfire 3.0 was much easier to use/customer friendly and had a different look from all the other gaming forums. Just bring crossfire 3.0 back and a lot of members will come back. If not, krijg de cholera.
Agreed. CF 3.0 was unique, this shit is just another really bad clone of all other gaming websites. The uniqueness of CF 3.0 was what brought a lot of visitors to the website. It's too bad the guys in charge are too stubborn to reverse the change and revert back to 3.0.
gtv became more active than cf
gtv admins were always better than cf ones anyway
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is like when they changed facebook., massive whine, less new accounts, many left, then it got up again and ppl got used to the change and eventually numbers were same or better than before, sadly this wont happen witht his site since no1 knows what crossfire is..not even half et players do (jaymod+nq+etc), so changing this site was dumbest mistake ever, many et ppl left, no1 rlly comes to this site to check stuff about other games lol this site doesnt even come up when you search "enemy territory community" in google , so honestly other tahn et players no1 knows this site and is hard they ever will..so ye cf4 is a lot less active, interesting than before, and as usual nothing will be done until eventually cf dies :many beers sry english
summer + CF4 sux
This is just some Nustyle crap webpage and I don't like it. It's just lame and unattractive -.-
Make a poll about keeping CF 4.0 or go back to CF 3.0 (One of the admins who's left?)
CF 3.2 > CF 4.0

easy as
sup with ET + Steam Greenlight?
As many already mentioned, the "big guys" do not even take care of their website anymore.
It looks like they tried something, noticed the big failure and decided to leave it as a shitty website browsed by 200max users
prolly 99% of users here prefer old style, but wont happen anyway ;d
There's no content cause the admins keep deleting it.

Idea for evening times...send Blank papers..
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