Machina said:
SWORDF1SH said:
Machina said:
SWORDF1SH said:
It's should be VGForums now. That's all I come here for. Even the latest news turns up in the forums before the news section on this site. Sometimes, I swear the VGC writers use the forums to get the latest news and just cover it with their own article. |
I think whenever I've taken something directly from the forums I've given a nod to the user who made the thread.
Forums are naturally faster than all but press release feed sites tbh. There are far more users than writers by a long stretch, and writing up a story and properly editing it takes a lot more time and effort than simply copy/pasting the article and adding a link at the end (i.e. plagiarism), and sites need to spread their content out rather than just spamming it all up straight away. It's why gaming news sites like VG24/7, Gamespot, EG, VG, etc. will often post stories that are 'old'.
As for VGC, it's easy to carp from the sidelines but someone like Will dedicates several hours a day to posting news on the site. His and others' efforts being rubbished in a quick throwaway post from someone who's contributed nothing to the site makes me pretty angry.
The sales stuff being so far behind is ridiculous and deserves to be criticised heavily, but that is not the responsibility of the writing team, which is largely volunteer-based and does a great job of keeping the front page constantly active.
As Tor said above, he and I have reasons to be hopeful the sales situation can be turned around soon, but I'm not going to make any announcements or promises until I'm certain I can keep my word.
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You need to cool it a little. I'm praising the forum and it's members rather than having a dig at the writers. These guys are on the ball with everything.
And no need to have a go at me. I might only be 1 member that "contributes nothing", but the members and community are what keeps this site afloat. That dig was unnecessary
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I feel fully justified in the tone of my post given the tone of your post.
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Think whatever you want. You already made it clear what you think of the average member.
I think I explained exactly what I meant in my second post, ignore it if you must.
