If I may chime in:
I first heard of GSN since its inception, and I wanted my cable system to get it soooooo badly! I got real jealous of GS fans posting clips of Match Game and other G-T and B-E shows on the internet and I could only reminisce of the good old GS days through 15-30 second audio and (sometimes) video clips.
Anyway, after several years of torture, I finally was able to get regular cable and then, digital cable which had GSN included in its package. October 15, 1999 was when I saw GSN for the first time, and I was in hog heaven, and my VCR was taping a lot of eps of various shows. Anyway, this was right before they did the split screen GSN promos and the time compression speed ups. Long story short, I had quite a few VHS tapes of various game shows (and I still have them btw). After about 9 months I temporarily gave up cable for about 2 1/2 years because I moved out of the apartment I shared with a roommate into my own home and because I later enrolled in graduate school. In the fall of '02 I got cable again and got my GSN fill. I also was a regular poster at the GSN message boards, but after about 2 years I got tired of all the whining from the posters and left there, though I did play my share of GSN playalong games which were rather cool.
The rebranding of GSN was killing my interest in the network and by the summer of 2005, I had found GSN to be MORE than a bit stale. Then again, I found television as a whole to be 90% BS and not worth watching. So on (or around) September 14, 2005, I disconnected my cable and actually retired from watching TV in favor of the internet.
By this time, Youtube was beginning to rise in popularity and with it came tv shows and game shows I had either never seen before or haven't seen in 20-30 years. So pretty much whatever game show scenarios I was interested in seeing, I saw it on Youtube. In short, my fill of game shows has been pretty much satisfied; I really don't need GSN anymore, though I had a great time watching it when I did need it.