If Ω/v/ ever becomes big, we'll want a slower board for our oldies. There will always be more anons who will discuss new games on a /v/ as opposed to us old farts and a few younguns who somehow got into retro.

Besides, 8/v/ was killed by cancer while 8/vr/ was pretty good, even if very slow, until the very end. BO and vols played an important part in this, sure, but a /vr/ board can't be popular by definition.

But that's my take on things, would be interesting to hear from him as well.

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Seconding this. Despite there being more old stuff to talk about, it inevitably gets drowned out by whatever hot new things are being discussed, including new games, industry trends and news. Even avoiding the less salubrious aspects of /v/, the place is by its very nature going to spawn more discussion on current topics than older ones, even while not actively disallowing retro posts.

tl;dr: even an on-target, non-cancerous /v/ will talk more about new shit and drown out potential discussion for retro stuff.