Chang L.
Nice creative interface but quite some irony there!
Absolutely not the best platform for uploading games. First of all, let me tell you about the unlocks : after creating an account and logging in, you may find that there are several features that are available, but only by earning points or buying ripe. They say there are no paywalls (if you enter the site not logged in with adblocker) but if you don't have enough points then access to ripe is pretty much a paywall. However, the real reason they use points to purchase these features (or unlocks) is to prevent spam or something... pretty ironic! Because the Gamebanana site is FULL of spam! And that brings us to secondly... and no, those MSPaint mods are hardly spam compared to the spam I'm talking about... I call it "trash spam"! It's what actually becomes of MSPaint "masterpieces" after being flagged! You search up something vague, say "baldi's basics decompile", no precise names you know, and you find alot of results and many of them are either still in the works with sometimes no download, flagged and can't be downloaded, cancelled or downright TRASHED! Normally, when you're looking for a download, you don't really have time to discover something you can't even use! I'm looking for "Baldi's basics decompile" because I want to play it some time! They should only show what's been trashed if I actually typed in something that matches enough with the trashed item! Don't you also hate it when you see this very interesting mod, and only after you click on it, you have the right to know its actual status : cancelled. I don't know why this site appears to have more content uploads from modders than the two better ones (Gamejolt and itch.io, at least the original creator of Baldi knew that a very convenient place for his games was not Gamebanana)! Also, third : Say on day 1 you logged in to Gamebanana. You never clicked "log out" or something, you just turn off your computer at the end of the day... the next day you check out Gamebanana again, and this is what you see : "Gamebanana shows no ads to members" as well as some ads (and you coulda sworn you were a member just yesterday); you are logged back out. There are "Sign up" and "log in" options. You look a decompile, you find a decompile, then you wanna talk about it in the comments, but you have to log in first. Be sure to copy the url in the adress bar because once you log in, you WILL be redirected to your main account page, and there's no way to escape this log-in redirection before resuming your browsing. The point is, each day you first open Gamebanana, let's just hope you used your browser's log-in autofill or that you either log in before searching, or you search first, then save the url before you start logging in. Fourth, it seems Gamebanana is the only game hosting site that uses ads (although I'll go lightly on them for not ENFORCING ads on their users and removing them for logged in members) and makes you trade someting for features. I've made this review when their server was down, but I won't judge them for a server fail. These almighty errors can happen to any server! Although their competence may be reviewable depending on the time it takes to fix the problems. If a fix requires money, and they can't afford it, then I believe it's just that they are in a very unstable position to have ever decided to make this website at all.