| ioi said: Tiger Woods was again an administrative error - these things do happen when you are tracking so many SKUs. It was rude since you immediately pointed the finger and suggested that numbers were just being made up or whatever  |
ioi, as someone who partakes in many different tech based forums and blogs, some of which are not sales related or even directly console related, just general tech, I have to say that this site has a credibility issue in the wider tech community. Even fairly level headed sites like Ars, if you ever bring up VGC as a source for sales data you get smacked down hard, with the usual accusations that you'd know of, ie 'VGC just guesses numbers' or 'VGC just plaguarise the other tracking sites'. Is it fair? God no. Its brutally unfair because what you do on this site is awesome. But as someone who regularly has to defend VGC, its tiring. On the other hand, whether you should care or not about what others think is up to you. As you've said, if the professional community take your work seriously then thats great, and who really cares what the blogosphere thinks. But within that sphere, which I'd hazard a guess overlap a similar demographic to VGC readers and people from which you generate revenue from, these little mistakes affect how seriously you are treated a lot.
Because everyone of these little 'administrative errors' put cracks in the veneer of creditability this site deserves. The doubters use these to discredit VGC, and convince people who don't know the site that the numbers are fake. Hence why we have the situation now that the general online tech consensus is that VGC is merely a guestimate and not a real tracking site. Us VGC'ers know thats a load of crap, but we're a small community by online standards.
All I'm trying to say I guess is that Chrizum is doing you a favour, and as you've recognised, you need to get more people helping you with this massive task you're taking on to track and crunch the numbers each week and cut down on the errors.
