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
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100409

This month's Vizzed Competition

Music Competition: PlayStation 2
Find the best PS2 song
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100407

Earn up to 100,000 Viz in the above competition!

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Vanelan won last month's 'Amiga' music competition. Results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100394

On Wednesday, 2/28/2018, from 5-8 PM (central time zone) we'll all be listening to and rating the songs from the Amiga Music Competition. Shortly before each song finishes, I'll give users a link to where they can rate each song and the song submitters get points for any rating above a 3 (out of 5).

I will be hosting this event on my Twitch channel and I'll be giving away a total of $250 worth of Steam Games in the form of Vizzed Raffle Tickets which can be used to redeem Steam games and other digital games including eShop, Uplay and more. The Raffle Tickets can also be traded into the Vizzed Market for 10,000 Viz each.

The more songs you rate, the higher your chances are of winning a raffle after the stream is over. Each rating you make during the stream is basically another entry in the raffle. There will be over 1000 digital games that winners will be able to pick from. You can see a full list of redeemable games here:
https://www.vizzed.com/market/listings.php?type=Raffle

My Twitch channel can be found here:
https://www.twitch.tv/davideo7
(be sure to "Follow" my channel)

If anyone has any questions or feedback, reply to this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100383

There's still plenty of time to compete in this month's competition!

Music Competition: Amiga
Find the best Amiga song
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100327

Earn up to 100,000 Viz in the above competition!

I wanted to give out another huge shout out and thanks to my supporters on Patreon. Their financial support has really helped out a lot. I'm hoping these shout outs give them more recognition among the Vizzed community. If anyone else is interested in supporting this site, you can help out for as little as US $2 a month here:
https://www.patreon.com/DavidAuchampach

Here are all of my current supporters:

$100 Tier
(none at the moment)

$50 Tier
Foxyman1113

$25 Tier
(none at the moment)

$10 Tier
Phoenix7
Vanelan
Light Knight
jerry.ferguson
lorddeathknight

$5 Tier
TwitchyLS
blucoll
xxdougiexxfreshx
JigSaw

$2 Tier
Devantaus
Mohammedroxx3
AuraBlaze

Thank you guys

I recently went through the list of patrons and adjusted everyone's patron status. If I accidentally removed your patron benefits, be sure to let me know right away here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100339

This month's Vizzed Competition

Music Competition: Amiga
Find the best Amiga song
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100327

Earn up to 100,000 Viz in the above competition!

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Vanelan won last month's 'Commodore' music competition. Results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100326

Commodore 64 Music Stream is Now Live
https://www.twitch.tv/davideo7/

For more information, refer to the previous announcement.

On Wednesday, 1/31/2018, from 5-8 PM (central time zone) we'll all be listening to and rating the songs from the Commodore 64 Music Competition. Shortly before each song finishes, I'll give users a link to where they can rate each song and the song submitters get points for any rating above a 3 (out of 5).

I will be hosting this event on my Twitch channel and I'll be giving away a total of $250 worth of Steam Games in the form of Vizzed Raffle Tickets which can be used to redeem Steam games and other digital games including eShop, Uplay and more. The Raffle Tickets can also be traded into the Vizzed Market for 10,000 Viz each.

The more songs you rate, the higher your chances are of winning a raffle after the stream is over. Each rating you make during the stream is basically another entry in the raffle. There will be over 1000 digital games that winners will be able to pick from. You can see a full list of redeemable games here:
https://www.vizzed.com/market/listings.php?type=Raffle

My Twitch channel can be found here:
https://www.twitch.tv/davideo7
(be sure to "Follow" my channel)

If anyone has any questions or feedback, reply to this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100320

There's still half a month left to compete in this month's Vizzed Competition

Music Competition: Commodore 64
Find the best Commodore 64 song
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100257

Earn up to 100,000 Viz in the above competition!

I also just recently finished adding the C64 soundtracks so now there's nearly 500 game soundtracks to choose from.

This month's Vizzed Competition

Music Competition: Commodore 64
Find the best Commodore 64 song
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100257

Earn up to 100,000 Viz in the above competition!

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G789 won last month's 'Christmas' music competition. Results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100231

The Tour de Vizzed has 2 updates. A new "gray" banner has been added for veteran users who have been registered for more than 7 years. The TdV is now biannual and will take place only in January and July from now on.


The Autumn Tour de Vizzed is here and can be found there:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100223

Hall of Fame page can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/tourdevizzed-halloffame.php


Each day there will be 4 Jerseys you can compete for:
Yellow Jersey: Most words in a day
Blue Jersey: Most posts in a day
Red Jersey: Most CP in a day
Green Jersey: Most CP actions in a day


You can find more information there:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/controlpanel.php?category=help&help=terminology&name=Tour%20de%20Vizzed#Tour%20de%20Vizzed


You can find the current Tour de Vizzed results page there:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/tourdevizzed.php

The server maintenance that resulted from the server migration is finally finished. I apologize for the delay and for the various features that were down for a lot of this time. I have a separate full time job and a family to attend to so I wasn't able to dedicate as much time to the maintenance and server migration as I would've liked. The migration in the long run was not only beneficial for me since it cut server costs by a ton but it also resulted into all games (except PlayStation) being available to all users with no limitations at all thanks to the unlimited bandwidth that I now have.

Also, the site should be a lot faster now and even faster than it was before the server migration. All of the features should be working fine again but if anything stopped working because of the migration, be sure to let me know right away in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100215

I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. It's not quite Christmas yet but I always like to make sure everyone in all time zones get this before Christmas.



7 Days of Vizzed Christmas
You'll all be rewarded a nice Christmas gift when you come to the site on Christmas (server time). Additionally, you'll be rewarded a random amount of Viz for each day that you come to Vizzed from the 25th until the end of the year, the 'Vizzed 7 Days of Christmas'. Be sure to visit the site each day to claim your random Viz gift!



Christmas Games in the Retro Game Room
The Retro Game Room has 40+ Christmas games. You can find them all here:
https://www.vizzed.com/playonlinegames/index.php?sort=best&search=Christmas&searchBy=theme



Christmas Video Game Music Stream
I'll be streaming Christmas / Wintery themed video game music 24 hours a day from now until Christmas is over. You can find the stream here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videogamemusicradio


Christmas Video Game Music
I put together a big playlist of Christmas themed and Winter themed video game music:
https://www.vizzed.com/videogames/music.php?playlist=4



Retro Christmas Game Montage
A few years ago I put together a video highlighting 12 Christmas games (non hacked):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcbh8UIMMj8



Any questions, comments or feedback? Or do you simply want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas? Do so in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100195

On Wednesday, 12/20/2017, from 5-8 PM (central time zone) we'll all be listening to and rating the songs from the Christmas Video Game Music Competition. Shortly before each song finishes, I'll give users a link to where they can rate each song and the song submitters get points for any rating above a 3 (out of 5).

I will be hosting this event on my Twitch channel and I'll be giving away a total of $250 worth of Steam Games in the form of Vizzed Raffle Tickets which can be used to redeem Steam games and other digital games including eShop, Uplay and more. The Raffle Tickets can also be traded into the Vizzed Market for 10,000 Viz each.

The more songs you rate, the higher your chances are of winning a raffle after the stream is over. Each rating you make during the stream is basically another entry in the raffle. There will be over 1000 digital games that winners will be able to pick from. You can see a full list of redeemable games here:
https://www.vizzed.com/market/listings.php?type=Raffle

My Twitch channel can be found here:
https://www.twitch.tv/davideo7
(be sure to "Follow" my channel)

If anyone has any questions or feedback, reply to this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100190

The Video Game Music Room is back up which means you all can go ahead and get your submissions ready for the below competition. The competition ends this upcoming Wednesday which is also when the stream will take place but I'll let everyone continue submitting their songs up until a few hours before the stream starts. The games in the Retro Game Room will be working again hopefully within 24 hours and the rest of the site should be back to full speed within the next few days. I'll make a separate announcement once the maintenance is complete. Thank you all for your patience

Music Competition: Christmas Music
Find the best Christmas / Wintery themed video game song
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100151

Earn up to 100,000 Viz in the above competition!

The server migration is complete but the site maintenance will continue for another week. The games in the Retro Game Room are currently down and the songs in the Video Game Music Room are also unavailable. The site is also a lot slower than usual. Once the maintenance is complete, all of these things should be fixed (some of these things sooner than others). If there are any other issues that I'm unaware of, please let me know in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100186

Starting now until Friday the site will be undergoing maintenance. Most of the site will be up for most of this time but some user features will be down for some of this time.

I'll be migrating the site to new servers which will help cut site costs, make the site a little faster and will give the site unlimited bandwidth which means I'll be making all of the games on the site (except PlayStation) available to everyone regardless of system and Viz.

For more information or if you have any questions, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100185

2017 Vizzed Awards
As of Today, 12-06-17, the current Vizzed Board is 13 years old!

There hasn't been a lot of updates in the past year but that's because I've been working on a big project over the past 6+ months which will go live soon. I've also been working a full time job for the past year or so now so the amount of time I'm able to invest into the site has dropped by a lot.

You can find the awards and additional anniversary information here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100169

This month's Vizzed Competition

Music Competition: Christmas Music
Find the best Christmas / Wintery themed video game song
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100151

Earn up to 100,000 Viz in the above competition!

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Davideo7 (me) won last month's 'Game Gear' music competition. Results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100164

Vizzed Board 13 Year Anniversary is coming up and every year the users vote for people to receive awards. Here's your chance to vote:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=100140