What's with people like u these days acting like everybody owes u something? What does the owner making money have to do with anything, if we were paying customers than u would have a point but the site and it's numbers are free so yes in a sense it is in fact a charity to us.

if u knew half of what u were talking about, then you would know that nothing is free on the internet. and then u would know that there is no charity about any of this. 

and this is not about entitlement. if u think that that's what this is about then as I said, you have no idea what you are talking about. this is not even about the owner making money or not. its simple. you make a site, your site offers a service. be it news, sales data, a marketplace, access to ur friends pictures and updates....whatever. every site serves a purpose. how good that site is at meeting that purpose ensures its user base and reputation grows. the more those two grows, the more money that site makes. IT IS NOT WRONG, ENTITLEMENT, SELFISH.... or whatever, to simply ask that a site does what its supposed to do.

if u knew half of what u were talking about, then you would know that nothing is free on the internet. and then u would know that there is no charity about any of this. 

and this is not about entitlement. if u think that that's what this is about then as I said, you have no idea what you are talking about. this is not even about the owner making money or not. its simple. you make a site, your site offers a service. be it news, sales data, a marketplace, access to ur friends pictures and updates....whatever. every site serves a purpose. how good that site is at meeting that purpose ensures its user base and reputation grows. the more those two grows, the more money that site makes. IT IS NOT WRONG, ENTITLEMENT, SELFISH.... or whatever, to simply ask that a site does what its supposed to do.

What do u mean nothing is free on the internet? Does it cost u money to access this site and view it's sales data? Nope, so that indeed makes it free.

The comment I originally replied to was u stating holidays/family were not a legitimate excuse for not having numbers up to date. U saying that another human being has no right to temporarily leave his job to go on vacation to spend time with family over the holidays is selfish, there is no debating that.

What is ur job? Are u not allowed vacation/holiday/personal days? Do u fail to meet ur purpose and hurt ur reputation when u take a day off or go on vacation?

They've certainly been weak about giving sales numbers lately.

IMO if VGC has a single point of failure (ioi) then VGC has a problem. If ioi gets hit by a bus (or ebola) does the site essentially fall over and become defunct?

What do u mean nothing is free on the internet? Does it cost u money to access this site and view it's sales data? Nope, so that indeed makes it free.

The comment I originally replied to was u stating holidays/family were not a legitimate excuse for not having numbers up to date. U saying that another human being has no right to temporarily leave his job to go on vacation to spend time with family over the holidays is selfish, there is no debating that.

What is ur job? Are u not allowed vacation/holiday/personal days? Do u fail to meet ur purpose and hurt ur reputation when u take a day off or go on vacation?

jesus what's with people these days and acting like everyone is doing them some sort of favor????

do you think ioi made, and runs the site purely off charity and from the goodness of his heart? do u have any idea how much he makes from this site? are we not all here primarily for dales data? is the sites name not based on sales data????? yet to be on the site and expect said sales data is so,show being selfish? 

how's this for selfish. if I make a site and the site goes on to make a lot of money for me. I owe it to the members or people that come visisting that site to provide them the service the site is set to provide. failure to do so will be quite simply that, me failing as a site. look at it this way, if there were another site called vgsales. and every single Friday like clockwork that site had sales data. and also had forums as good as s this one with better tools, this site will fall hard or ioi will start taking the site more seriously. this is just a simple fact, but Yh, I am probably selfish and the bad guy here. 

You aren't smart enough to pick up on the context of what Intrinsic meant by nothing is free on the internet. Nowhere did Intrinsic talk about ioi's rights. Intrinsic I'm sure has a job, ioi has a business, big difference young grasshopper.

Intrinsic is simply judging the site and stating how its a poorly run business when ioi just simply doesn't update numbers, which this site is known for. If you want to defend ioi then go ahead but in no way does that take away form the fact that Intrinsic has a very valid point.

Please enlighten me wise one, what does he mean nothing is free on the internet? If I'm not paying for a service then it is free, regardless if ioi is making money from us visiting the site, no money is coming out of my pocket so it is free, that is a fact.

Go back and look at the post I originally replied to, he said holidays/family were not an excuse to take time off. And yes I know ioi runs a business, the machine shop I used to work at is known for manufacturing, during the holidays the entire company shuts down for nearly an entire month, during this time the company is not doing what its known for, just like this site is not doing what its known for when ioi is gone.

Intrinsic is right that the site could be ran better, like another poster said, ioi could have simply made a thread saying he was taking a few weeks off so we weren't sitting around wondering when numbers would show up, that would have been a nice easy way to avoid such a situation. I just feel we shouldn't really complain about how a site is ran if money isn't coming out of our pockets. Yes I know, ioi gets revenue from us visiting the site but that's not the same as actually having to pay.