So Vgchartz Pro has arrived...

[mrstickball]

Kasz216 said:

mrstickball said:

You forget why its a business.

Without access to sales data, companies will make crappier games that sell poorly, and close up shop. People have to have a profit motive to do things in life. NPD charges $100,000 per year for their data. VGC can likely expand and make everything better by adding more professional tools for developers/publishers/ect.

And if you really, really hate VGC, then feel free to make your own game charts website, work 40-50hrs a week, and then decide if its worth it to do it for free.

 

Do I like this change to a more paid format? No. I've been a member from almost day-1 (look at my ID). But there's a reason its here. Besides, getting a top-40 weekly is better than anything NPD, EEDAR, or any other company will give you.

Yep... that's about right.

As the numbers get more accurate and popular and used... the more expensive things get...

For the record, I only joined because of the numbers as well.  Well actually i joined because i was annoyed of people ignoring the numbers.  That one crazy guy who thought PS3 was way ahead of everything because it sold real well in portugal.

Yep. The real question (for me) is: 'Will the accuracy of VGC become much greater with a monetized system?'. I mean, if the users are getting a little less data, but far greater, almost-NPD levels of accuracy...Wouldn't that be a benefit for most of us? If its just a few tools, I can't see justifying the cost, because theres no way a few extra tools (which could probably be done on the users' end with some pivot tables and know-how in Excel) would be worth it. But if there is more data, better data, and more tools, then it should be pretty good.