I've been sorta distant from the Vizzed community for the past year and a half and especially lately over the past few months. I've been spreading myself too thin ever since I started a full time job 1 1/2 years ago and especially more so with my wife recently getting a full time job, putting me in charge of my kids while she's at work which has limited my time to invest into Vizzed even more.
Up until a few months ago I was investing a lot of time into the website. Between working my full time job, I was also investing an almost equal amount of hours into the website...but not the community. A lot of the stuff I had been working on was more behind the scenes stuff such as fixing things, optimizing things, server transfers, server maintenance, marketing and advertising, researching, studying, general site maintenance, working on making the site more mobile friendly and making the games in the Retro Game Room playable on mobile devices. I was working too much, lacking
sleep, battling depression, barely spending time with my wife and kids and definitely had no time to myself (basically retired from video games and definitely no time to work out like I use to). I eventually had a mental (and physical) crash where I had no motivation to even use the site and the lack of
sleep was really taking its toll (still is). So now I'm going to be taking a slightly different approach to the site.
From now on, I'm going to put far less focus into adding new features to the site and more focus into fixing the ones we already have. But prioritized over that though will be the Vizzed community since that's the part of the site that has been dying the most. Over the past year, the posting traffic has taken some massive drops and more recently it's close to extinction. I've got 100s of Private Messages I have to go through and I'll make those a higher priority than I have in the past but it'll still take me a while to get through them because some require time consuming responses, some require me to look into and/or fix things that are complicating, and some are ideas and proposals that people submit to me. I also had 10,000s of unread notifications but one day I accidentally opened it up which cleared it all so there's a lot of stuff I'll never know about that I was summoned to. Anyways, I'll probably be investing about 20 hours into the site a week on average with 10% of my time invested into adding new features, 25% of it fixing features and maintenance, and 65% of it invested into the community.
Becoming more involved with the Vizzed community should result into me posting more. I'm also hoping to get back into netplaying and streaming once in a while with some of you that I haven't done so with in a long time. In the near future I'll be making a thread allowing users to let me know of what needs to be fixed around the site but my first priority will be restructuring the staff. I'll most likely demote all staff (excluding site staff) and rebuild the entire staff from the ground up. A community can't survive without a good staff and a bad staff can turn users away from the site and that's been one of the biggest complaints and one of the top reasons I've heard that users have been ditching the community, they don't like the staff or the leadership.
So yeah, my involvement with the users of this site and the staff has been terrible and I apologize for that :( It's not that my management skills are bad, I just have really bad time management and I think the big reason for that is not only my lack of time but also my ADHD, which is something I've always struggled with and can be pretty bad sometimes. I start a lot of projects that I don't finish and adding new stuff to the site is more exciting to me than spending hours reading and responding to Private Messages and emails so I tend to put off to the side those things and ended up prioritizing what was exciting to me since it motivated me. But those reasons aren't justified and probably caused me to sometimes become impatient since I started viewing it as a burden to have to respond to things that were time consuming or unexciting. I'm hoping this new direction is the right direction (or at least until I can make Vizzed my full time job again) and those of you who have stuck around and been patient with me, or even those of you who are willing to give me another chance, I thank you all :)
All RGR Games Cost 0 Viz & Temporarily 25% Off All Market Listings
As part of my apology and gratefulness that some of you are still checking up on the site, I've made the price of all the games in the
Retro Game Room cost 0
Viz (a while ago I did make it so users could still play games without
Viz but they'd have in ad in the play window). I've made all of the game systems (except PlayStation) available to everyone (this actually was done a few months ago), regardless of powerlevel or what items you own from the Vizzed Market. I've permanently dropped the price of the
PlayStation item from 30,000
Viz to 10,000 Viz, which gives you access to play nearly
2500 PlayStation games. I'm able to do this thanks to the new servers that I migrated to recently which now offers me unlimited bandwidth, gives me more disk space and surprisingly the servers are cheaper than the previous I had which is crazy since they're also a lot faster.
I'm also temporarily discounting all of the items in the
Vizzed Market by 25%. This includes all digital items that I've listed and also all vizzed items.
150+ Items Added to Vizzed Market
Over the past month or so I've added well over 150 games and other various items to the
Vizzed Market (actually 200+ but a lot of those listings sold quick). I still have a lot of game codes to add from years ago when I had the money to invest into buying digital games in stock quantity. The purpose of that was to reward users by giving them something to spend their
Viz on. I'm hoping to get another 100+ items added within the next month or so.
Anyways, if any of you have any questions or feedback regarding any of this, please let me know in this thread :)
http://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100409
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