BCG again

BCG has always been the king of game trackers. Most would say that it still is but to be honest BCG has lost much of its former glory during 2010. A year ago BCG tried a new invite system using referrals. They changed their login page to a fake one and they made up a personal random word that you had to write in a search box before being able to login with your ordinary username and password.
According to BCG this was done as a security measure. But the invite referral system was flawed.
Referrals wasn't easy to get a hold on. And the person you invited had to have your secret word in order to sign up and the sign up process had to be done in a couple of hours after the mail had been sent out. What happened was that people didn't bother to sign up. And people started using other game trackers instead of BCG.
We all know what happened after that. No new members meaning no new donors. BCG has now had open sign ups for the last couple of months looking for new members.
BitGamer on the other hand has closed invites in preparation for a new invite system. Hopefully they won't make the same mistake as BCG.

It definitely feels like most of the new accounts on BCG are dupes because of the vast amount of accounts found at different trading sites. And with no stop in sight when it comes to open sign ups the former king of gaming now finds itself at level 2.