Parokki on 18 May 2008
| windbane said: Hah, the "firm" vgchartz. That's cool. |
Couldn't help noticing that as well. Wikipedia defines a firm as:
- Any business entity such as a corporation, partnership or sole proprietorship. This more general meaning is used in macroeconomics (in terms such as ideal firm size).
- The word firm is sometimes used in a more restrictive sense to refer to a business group of professionals, such as law firm, architectural firm, securities/financial firm (such as private equity), or consulting firm. This use can be seen in phrases such as white shoe firm. Contrast with sole practitioner.
- British slang phrase for a criminal gang or football hooligans (see list of hooligan firms).
I guess you could call VGC a business entity, now that there's a shop selling stuff, and ioi's making a bit of money with it. We're also way more qualified to talk about games that professionals, so I guess the second definition might work as well. Finally, we lost a good deal of our gansta following when Leo got banned, but the amount of trolling going on easily takes us up to the level of football hooligans. =P
So yeah, we're a firm allright.
