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The VGBoxart forums is an online forum, similar to other websites, |
The VGBoxart forums is an online forum, similar to other websites. Members can share box ideas or their box art for critiquing, host or take part in box art competitions, or ask questions. Members also chat about things unrelated to box arts. The forums have been known to be the place of many large fights, sometimes resulting in banning. |
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== References == |
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VGBoxart | |
| Owner | Reed [1] |
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| URL | http://www.vgboxart.com/ |
| Registration | Free |
VGBoxart (nicknamed VGBA) is an online community for video game hobbyists to showcase and discuss their mock-up boxarts. Works are organized by gaming console, including Wii, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Nintendo DS, Playstation Portable, among others. As of 2008 it has also been extended to accustom art of other nature such as posters, CD covers and DVD covers. As of February 2009, the website has over 14,000 members, over 16,000 boxart submissions, and over 195,000 comments.[1]
Features
Author Pages
Every author has a personal page at the URL http://www.vgboxart.com/author/username/, where username is replaced with his/her username. This page exhibits the author's boxart submissions in chronological order, as well as his/her fans, favorite authors, and favorite boxart submissions.
Hall of Fame
Having a boxart get placed in the Hall of Fame is the highest honor on VGBoxart. Once enough users add a box to their favorites, it is added to the Hall of Fame. Requirements for a box to get into the Hall of Fame have varied since the concept's creation. Originally thirteen favorites were necessary before a box would be placed in the Hall of Fame. It was later increased to twenty.
There were still issues with "unworthy" boxes getting in, though, so a point system was implemented. As users mature on the site (Submit more boxes, gain favorites, etc.) their user rank increases (Users are ranked on a scale of one to nine). Once a user marks a box as a favorite, the box gains a number of points equal to that user's rank. It was originally believed that one hundred points were required to get into the Hall of Fame. At a later date, it was increased again to require 150 points. This system was created to discourage people from counting up how close his/her box is to the Hall, but still, people count up how many points they have, and how many more are needed. There has been controversy over wether the system should be changed or not.
Favorites
The favoriting system is where users can honor boxes they really like by adding it to there "favorites" The system has had much controversy latley, as some people have been favorting too many boxes. Some people feel that the favorite system should be removed from the site. These people claim that the site was better back before the Hall of Fame/Favorites systems were introduced.
Forums
The VGBoxart forums is an online forum, similar to other websites. Members can share box ideas or their box art for critiquing, host or take part in box art competitions, or ask questions. Members also chat about things unrelated to box arts. The forums have been known to be the place of many large fights, sometimes resulting in banning.
References
- ^ "VGBA's Stats". Retrieved 2009-02-4.
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