A Time for Change
I would like to start this post with a “Thank You”. Thank you to all of the passionate writers and contributers that have added to this site. Thank you to all the readers of this site and in particular those whom have added their $.02 in comments. I started TGC as an experiment and project. I wanted to dive into the blogosphere with both feet and thought gaming would be the best topic for me to write about. I thought about wanting to explore the medium in a way that was authentic to what the medium provided. I came up with the progressive review where I wrote about games over time as a I played them. Then I sought out to learn about driving traffic to the site and realized quickly that you need a lot of content and a lot of interesting content. I needed to find others to help provide that and had the wonderful pleasure of meeting many. It is pretty cool to think about the relationships made through this site and experience it has provided me and hopefully others. I wish I could continue pushing it forward as I had imagined to but I feel it is time for a new path.
In the past year plus, I have found myself unable to lead this site due to competing priorities and as a result, I am deciding to reimagine The Game Chair. I’ll be keeping the domain and likely relaunch it in some simpler fashion as a place to still write thoughtfully about games and maybe put some affiliate links for people looking to buy game chairs to help fund this ever expensive hobby (there are more people looking ot buy game chairs than I would have ever thought).
Maybe the site will re-emerge with a new approach as a community blog, maybe just a more open personal blog about games, or maybe I will take my desire to write about games now and then to another community blog. There are so many great ones out there.
Thanks for everything everyone - Seth
Special thanks to all the authors that have contributed (in no particular order and please scream if I missed anyone):
Hieronymous
Clayton
Maggie
Jake
Joe
Scotthal
Scott
Brinstar
Paul
Blight
Joe M
Neil
Andy
Atul
John B
Kirsty
1. August 2007 at 09:08
Good work everybody! Go out and celebrate a great run with an after-party of scattered proportions. I’d say that the drinks were on me, but I’m just a poor storyteller who has to con his own pints down at the pub. ;)
The Game Chair is dead.
Long live the Game Chair!
1. August 2007 at 14:34
Yes, it ’twas a good run and I had blast. Thanks Seth for the opportunity and keep on gamin’!
2. August 2007 at 00:16
Seth, thank you for inviting me to write on The Game Chair. I had a lot of fun. I’m looking forward to seeing how you evolve this site. :D
2. August 2007 at 15:03
Seth - sorry to see the current Game Chair go out, but I’ll be looking forward to whatever emerges from its ashes.
Good luck!
2. August 2007 at 23:14
It was a great site and a pleasure to be a part of it. I can’t wait to see it in its new form.
2. August 2007 at 23:57
I’m sorry to see the exit of The Game Chair as I’ve known it. It’s been fun to read and was of course invaluable to Flicker when I was foolishly trying to run an e-zine (what was I thinking?)
I’m sure that whatever it becomes going forward it will be something I’ll enjoy.
3. August 2007 at 02:52
Cheers!
I’m looking forward to whatever comes next.
3. August 2007 at 11:17
Sorry to see it’s leaving in it’s current form, since I’ve had some great fun ‘debating with others here, but I can’t wait to see what comes next.
Maybe user submissions?
4. August 2007 at 22:04
T’was good times, Seth! A great big thanks to you and all the fellow Game Chair writers.