Actually, I think you would be baffled...even if 50 businesses (that seems very plausible, if not too low) buy this at $20,000 each, that's $1,000,000 per year...do you really think the miniscule amount of ad revenue lost won't be easily recovered by that?  Plus, having a more professional approach like this may very well get vgchartz name out there more than it already is, which could lead to even more people visiting the site, meaning even more yet ad revenue.

i hate to admit it but this is exactly how i feel.

All i like doing is following my favourite company and seeing how many games they sell each week.Can't do that now,so no point coming back here any more.

This is the main thing I want back too...

It happened so fast LOL...I was gone for about 6 days(after stating I would be gone until April but I am nowe back...long story) and when I come back this all happens?

Well in all respect you missed the point.

Why would a company pay let's say 20,000$ a year for estimate numbers when they already have real numbers into their internal reports? And like I said, sooner or later the expensive data we have to pay now will appears on other video game sites for free.

Unfortunately this site will go down from now on...

you guys are a bunch of whiners, vgchartzpro is in the making they probably remove some features right now because they are fucking up the codes for the new vgpro, they will probably be back when they are done coding for the new site, also can you really blame ioi for wanting more money from you lazy ass rich gamers? especially the ps3 owners who get to play online for free.

We can't track any specific title now :( Imean week by week because the software sales  section only displays th first ten weeks. And just the moment FFXIII had reappeared in the American top 100 -_- I'm really angry now!

That's where the graph comes in hand, you can get an approximate down to the 10,000's how much a game over 1 million sales has sold.  As for games under 1 million, it is actually in the 100's that you can see the weekly sales for it.

Plus, what exactly is it people are whining about with the developer dealio being taken away...there's still a search by developer option...so was it something with that option that was taken away?

Same here. Being able to look at weekly sales by platform is one of those things I enjoyed doing each month. I also orignally joined years ago because of the sales data available and being able to look at it per platform and such. This is total crap! I would possibly pay if the price was reasonable to for the exact same thing we had before if that was necesary but in the thousands? WTF?? The forums and the weekly sales data are what this site was best for. Botching the sales data info is going to make many likely leave and make this site lesss relevant to the majority of us users.

I understand vgchartz is a businesss but it seems you are forgetting about why vgchartz became popular in the first place. Users joined this site because of sales data available to the public and a user friendly site where people discussed sales and upcoming games etc. The best thing that this site could do is make a vgchartz pro option available that is affordable to the majority of us regular site users that would be interested in the sales data. I am sure many of us would pay if it was reasonable/affordable.

lol, all you people "leaving", as if.

As for people leaving, you're here for a reason, you like sales. And this is still the best place to get sales data, so if you leave, you're cutting your nose off to spite your face ... stupid.