(Nov 21, 2016 at 12:26 PM)AWFADragNaut Wrote: (Nov 20, 2016 at 3:30 AM)Kazaam Wrote: i cant be mad/disappointed with mfgg. gave me way too much inspiration as a kid
Kind of in the same boat.
It was amazing at the time I joined, and honestly probably the best first sense of any online interaction I could have possibly had. But I likely wouldn't last long there now. Minus World is like a weird evolution. Some of the same people but I guess everyone has matured that little bit more to create what Minus World is that MFGG now lacks. And that ain't because its themed around Mario either, I still love mario games; maybe all the more now.
Hit the nail on the head - when I go to MFGG now it's like the maturity of the userbase is at Club Penguin levels.
And that's fine. It took years for me to understand why 07ers, 08ers, and 09ers were each more cringeworthy than the last: it's because they were kids stumbling upon something new, just as I had been in 2005. MFGG is very child-centric, we just never noticed back then because we were kids ourselves. But the maturity disconnect between a 9- and a 14-year-old is extreme, which led to a confusing transition period in which we felt like MFGG was being taken over by idiots.
It's still a great site for what it is, and it makes me very happy that kids still want to make Mario fangames, _especially_ in a world where Mario Maker would let them do something similar for much less effort. I mean imagine if MFGG was dead right now instead, the Mario fangaming scene gone alongside it. That would just be depressing - I much prefer the window-into-the-past situation they have going on right now.