I think all of this is easily solvable and the forums can become much more active, if the current members decide to spread the word about PakGamers and contribute quality material and threads.
A community cant thrive if all the members are not on the same page. When I was a normal member, I used to refer PakGamers to each and every single person I met.
Now, even though, we are in an age of social media, I dont understand how we have hardly 6-8/ 6-8 likes shares on our Facebook pages. Even if you dont like an article or post, share and like and spread it for the sake of PakGamers.
We have a pretty large number of people here everyday, but we are so shy in sharing PG stuff, remember my "Beti ka rishta aya hai syndrome thread I made", about the stigma of being a gamer in Pakistan.
People like @
IzHee, Asadullah khan (sorry dont know PG nick, pm me
), yasir, minion tim, etc and a few other are usually the only names which like our posts.
We have to solve our problems, no one else will come and do it for us. Instead of complaining, which I am doing aswell, we should now look for solutions.
I feel like there are only few committed souls on PakGamers, which are trying to work for a solution but alot of people are just being lazy and content. Sorry, but that's how I feel.
Another thing is, I guess alot of old members know this and new ones might not, but no member of Team PG earns or gains anything monetary by being present here.
So its not like NaNoW, Jshak, Global mods, mods are of course doing this because they get paid in gold bars and are millionaires by now and PG is a cash cow.
It is easy to complain, but very hard to deliver.
If you feel that you can contribute from a position of power, then start contributing and I will personally make you a supervisor, team ug member or mod (as per the requirement)
I try to take the initiative so many times, but I cant do it alone.
Once our front page is completely finished (which is at 98% done), we will be publishing 1 articles at least every other day. We have even said we will pay you if you make new content, only two people have honestly taken me up on that offer.
Yasir and Callofhonor
I need people who can take Community Nights and just run with it. Organize it yourself, every week. I can personally only do it for CS or Fifa, I cant do it for Dota or LOL or BF4 or whatever. I will support you with everything I can: servers, announcements, fb posts, etc.. Find players, make threads, organize with your fellow gamers. Just Do it. @
DivineTerra just pmed me himself saying, I will make the Raidcall server for ts and organize that server, so we can have our community multiplayer on difference games at all times. and every weekend we have a special community game night. I thank him for that and asked him to set it up, cause thats how I envisioned this when I thought of community nights. @
nafu is holding a PC benchmark competition, where is his support, pc guys..I remember we had a kickass PC MOD community, with the best and sexiest cases in town belonging to us (remember Rameex)
This kinda self initiative is what is needed.
We need to honestly spread the load and promote PakGamers ourselves, instead of being nostalgic.
One more thing : PG is improving. The traffic has been on rise since last 6 months (these are stats, not what I feel ) but its not as fast as one would hope.
I would like to ask the "Old members ", how much have the personally contributed to Pakgamers, interms of content, managing threads, competitions, discussions...and I am sure they will agree that we all used to do it much more than now.
I apologize if I sound bitter, its just because I care for the community. Please take the imitative to move pg ahead and if you cant do even that then at least promote PakGamers everwhere you can (online and offline).
