| jman8 said:
You're definitely right about that. #1 should read "And if a title spikes but is outside public data and the 2-3% retail sample VGChartz will never catch it." You're right in that the article isn't of the highest quality. However, it still points out the flaws in the system, which is the main point. |
Yep, but I wouldn't be pointing this out if I thought it was just an occasional mistake from the author. I could easily point you at more places where the same type of claims are repeated (actually I did point some out before).
I don't have a problem with some of the points made in the article, I even agree with some of them as I said in the first page of the thread. What I don't accept is the fact that the article attempts to disseminate some unfounded doubts about the site.
If he wanted to write it in a balanced manner, he could easily find some cases on which VGChartz accurately tracked non-obvious developments. Of course, someone could now tell me that that would be cherry picking, to which I would reply "not more so than the examples given in the text".
Instead, the writer wrote an article full of contradictions, unbalanced cherry-picking and frankly, a lot of FUD. That's why I felt the need to point out the glaring deficiencies of the article.
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