TUS - dead?

[A.G.]

April Fools day joke? Or truth? It showed up a few days before today though…

www.metalgearsolid.org/

If it’s true, yet another fansite dies. I think it’s just us and the Soup. LOL Not many active ones left, huh…

[solidelman]

It's for real. It has been down for about a month now. Before it showed a 404 Error but looks like they decided to announce theri death in a more understandable manner.

R.I.P. TUS.

[A.G.]

Well, that just shows just how useless fansites have become. The truth is, if you want to be big and well recognized, you need to put some money into it. And a lot of time. Frankly, it's not worth it. What do you accomplish as a fansite. Sure, 10 years ago was a different story.... but that's 10 years ago.

MGF is a relic in itself. This site SO relates to Old Snake in MGS4. It's a forgotten shadow of the old age of fansites.

[The Mad Jackyl]

Sad, so sad...

My site evidently had some bs malicious code uploaded to it somehow and is currently blocked. I'm on top of that now and trying to resolve it.

[A.G.]

Do you update your site anymore? I don't mean content, but with like news or something? Just curious.

[The Mad Jackyl]

God, no. I think the last time I updated was April 9th.

[A.G.]

Wow! Yeah... the whole fansite bit is really outdated. Official Web improved and Wikipedia showed up. Not much reason to have fansites around.

[A.G.]

They are trying to sell the TUS domain for 3K! Hahahaha! Even the biggest of all Metal Gear fansites is still... JUST a Metal Gear fansite. And that means precisely NOTHING! ;D

[The Mad Jackyl]

"I know they lost their bid to make the next generation fighter jet.
That plus the reduction in SDI spending...It looks like there was even some talk of a hostile takeover. Everything was riding on this project, I guess." - Otacon

Wow, profiting from the sale of a fansite domain... I guess since they realized their business model was a sustainable one and they were going to get out of the Metal Gear 'business', they were going to have a liquidation sale? Man, that's a little on the side of exploiting their not-for-profit affiliation and status.

[A.G.]

This decade really did see the rise and fall of fansites. At the start of it, "we were needed. we were desired. But now... oh things are different".

[trustburger]

lol looks like tus got bought by some guy nobody knows who might not even care about mg for $1500 lol. $1500 omg if i had that money i would have 1 credit card collector off my @$$!!!! dont matter now tho ag ur site and snake soup are the best of the best on the internet urs for info and soups for a good laugh at teh series. i still vivist mgf too btw i just dont have time to post in the boards.

[A.G.]

Hahahaha!

I really want to know who the new owner is now. I mean, spending that much on a FANSITE!!! Wow!!! And I thought people running it before were stupid... TUS just raised the bar again! lol

[cernex]

I really wish there was something to be done with fansites... I don't know, an "evolution" of the idea to guarantee some sort of "profit" from all the time, effort, and money invested... but I really don't see how.

A shame, really. But hey, at least fansites still have some minor uses, unlike webrings which were completely useless since day one (if you ask me).

[Cerberus_0408]

The question here though, is who benefits from using all these?

[cernex]

Well, the fans obviously.