mrstickball said:
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.
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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.
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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.
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I agree completely. I dunno, I just want to see Ioi make some money too, I mean, maybe it's just because you and I have a background in statstistics... but we know just how hard this kind of thing is to do accuratly.
Statistical tuning usually takes a LOT of work.
