MS Screwing Over the Little Guy

[DMeisterJ]

mrstickball said:

DmeisterJ -

There is a difference between a person posting an editorial piece ranting about something that he has absolutely no understanding of, and posting photo evidence of a strongly-held rumor.

And by the way, that picture was 110% right. It confirmed EVERYTHING despite the fact YOU were one of the main detractors of the article. Get over it. Just because you hate me doesn't mean that you need to keep bringing up an article that you were wrong over.

You may want to go back and read the headline from the article:
Thanks to an amazing VGChartz member, we have strong reason to believe the Ars Technica price drop rumor is indeed true, with a photo to prove it

Did you notice that it didn't say that it confirmed the rumor...Only that there was strong reason to believe that it was true? What was 100% certain about that? Oh, and by the way, that article was posted 3 weeks before the advertisments went out that confirmed the price drop, which gave readers a 3 week edge on what's going on in the industry. 3 weeks! That's huge!

And then, in comparison, we have a shoddy article that is relying on facts and statements made by Microsoft a year ago, and had very little substance by the writer concerning the plight of actual developers. There was only 1 quote by a dev - which was Jonathan Blow after 1 week of Braid sales. He never bothered looking through ANY other aritcles JB wrote that gave the progress and updates of Braid sales - Braid has sold about 5 times the number of copies since he quoted that article! How, as a writer, can you have any journalistic integrity by not researching your subject?

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What I mean when I say you take MS news, especially bad, WAYYYY too seriously.

Just needed to quote that, for evidence :P