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Shadowblind on 02 December 2010
Kantor said:
Shadowblind said:

I'm incredibly surprised that people from big gaming sites read the articles here, let alone respond to them. Looks like I missed a lot in the two(?) years I was gone.

 

I assume the article is in reaction to the writer's favorite of four "major" releases getting less then perfect review scores recently. You know the ones.

SNOWBLIND! YOU'RE BACK!

Basically, VGC is the VGChartz Network, TalonMan quit, there was a major staff reshuffling, people actually read gamrFeed (real people!) and reviews are booming.

Only thing not going well is the sales data, actually.

You have just incurred the wrath of this nun.

I've actually been back for a while, are you just now noticing?



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Games4Fun on 02 December 2010

I thought his article was a rather nice read. While it is not perfect it does point out some of the issues that ALL the gaming sites seem to have.



The Ghost of RubangB on 02 December 2010
Seece said:

Seriously whoever the hell  "Joseph Jackmovich" is we need to stop staff from doing these pointless articles, it just makes us look bad.

Whoever the hell?  He's been on our team for months!  He's SSDNINJA!

He wrote our editorials about Medal of Honor and the Taliban, and interviewed military personnel with Stephen Kelley.

As one of our senior editors, I approve of his most recent editorial, and I agree with it too.



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Seece on 02 December 2010
The Ghost of RubangB said:
Seece said:

Seriously whoever the hell  "Joseph Jackmovich" is we need to stop staff from doing these pointless articles, it just makes us look bad.

Whoever the hell?  He's been on our team for months!  He's SSDNINJA!

He wrote our editorials about Medal of Honor and the Taliban, and interviewed military personnel with Stephen Kelley.

As one of our senior editors, I approve of his most recent editorial, and I agree with it too.

I don't care, and I have no idea who he is, hasn't posted in the forums at all, it's just a name to me.

If it makes the site look bad (and we already look bad on the web) more articles like this won't help our rep, "his opinion" or not, it's still a VGChartz article.



 

The Ghost of RubangB on 02 December 2010
d21lewis said:

The news section.  Our greatest weakness.

Ouch!  Your words are like flaming swords of darkness twisting ever deeper into my VGHartz!



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O-D-C on 02 December 2010

any traffic is good traffic, thats how i get payed : p



Torillian on 02 December 2010

damn....was hoping I could leave this alone but it hasn't died down.

so, to all staff, if you have issues with an article on the site or another member of the staff we have staff forums specifically designed for us to work these problems out in a cordial matter.  That is where things like this should and will be discussed.  If you disagree with this feel free to AIM me, PM me, send a carrier pidgeon or contact me in any number of ways except through replying to this post.



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thismeintiel on 02 December 2010
Rainbird said:

I still think the author has a point, even if it comes across poorly, and with poor chosen targets. Many actual gaming news sites are not up to speed on their content, and tend towards sensationalism and/or sexism and/or other things in some pieces. I have read pieces like that on VGC before, although I rarely read up on news here anymore, so it's hard to tell if it still happens.

But poking at blogs is the wrong way to do it, even if the people behind them come off as "reporters". 

Yea, I have to agree.  I think the article would have faired much better if the writer picked better sites for the study, like IGN and/or Gamespot.  Plus, I would have been more interested in the article if he chose to look at the state of reviewing, as opposed to news reporting.  I also failed to see the point in critisizing a site for reporting news using just the offical source.  Seems like the best source to use IMO.



 

thranx on 02 December 2010
thismeintiel said:
Rainbird said:

I still think the author has a point, even if it comes across poorly, and with poor chosen targets. Many actual gaming news sites are not up to speed on their content, and tend towards sensationalism and/or sexism and/or other things in some pieces. I have read pieces like that on VGC before, although I rarely read up on news here anymore, so it's hard to tell if it still happens.

But poking at blogs is the wrong way to do it, even if the people behind them come off as "reporters". 

Yea, I have to agree.  I think the article would have faired much better if the writer picked better sites for the study, like IGN and/or Gamespot.  Plus, I would have been more interested in the article if he chose to look at the state of reviewing, as opposed to news reporting.  I also failed to see the point in critisizing a site for reporting news using just the offical source.  Seems like the best source to use IMO.


exactly my thoughts. I've never really been to kotaku but i never thought they were a gaming only site any ways. And if you have an officail source why use another one? The only reason I would see to do that is if its contradictory to the officail source and is accurate. Wh y have an officail source though if your not going to use them isn't that why gaming compaines have them?