GTPlanet
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GTPlanet is the web's largest online community dedicated to the Gran Turismo racing game series for the PlayStation/PlayStation 2.
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[edit] History
The site was created originally as an MSN community group in 2001 by Jordan Greer. It became a fully-fledged website in May of that year and has undergone several functional and visual changes since then. The current version - colloquially referred to as "GTP8" - was released on January 6th 2006.
The site currently has somewhere in the region of 90,000 registered members - 89,999 of which are virgins. The only one who is not a virgin is Jordan.
[edit] Features
Prior to the update to GTP8, GTPlanet featured sections for videos, car list data, prize car list data, race data and screenshots for Gran Turismo 2, Gran Turismo 3, Gran Turismo: Concept and Gran Turismo 4 - the first Gran Turismo having preceded the site's existence by several months, and the Prologue version never reaching US shores. Now, rather than having such a complicated tree of information; all of this has been merged together into the Game Guides section - a Wiki, rather than a library. The original Gran Turismo, along with Gran Turismo: Prologue and the upcoming Gran Turismo HD and Gran Turismo: Mobile (the latter for the Sony PSP console) all now have their own sections, filling the gap that previously existed and allowing for future releases.
The forum section of the site could well be considered to be the core. Though a minority of registered users actually visit the forums (i.e. the really sad ones who have no lives), almost all of the information in the other sections of the site is generated by forum users. This also has an interesting consequence in that all of this information is peer-reviewed by the same forum users.
The site has also released, from 15th January 2006 onwards, a mobile-device-friendly version, available at http://mobile.gtplanet.net/
Other features of the site include:
- Hostile 'wanna-be' moderators who will closely scrutinize every single one of your posts and heavily criticize you if you are off topic or say 'butt'.
- Spelling Nazis. If you spell a word wrong you will be greeted with lots of 13 year olds posting about 'how much you suck' and you will also get the moderators on your ass because they will complain too. This is because they want it to be an adult forum even though it's about a PS2 game which everyone knows is for kids.
- Boring, boring threads and an area of the site called the 'rumble strip'. This is supposed to be a fun place where you can chill out, but it is the exact opposite. Every thread is boring and this section is also packed with spelling nazis and wanna-be moderators.
[edit] References
GTPlanet.net
