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Torillian said:
WiiU-Dude said:
Why not look into a new person that can do what this Brett person was doing? I'm quite confident if you made it known you were looking for someone to fill this role some VERY competent people would emerge. Second, don't EVER let it rest on one persons shoulders. You have to have at least one back up or one to share the duties with. This has gotten out of hand. I have been visiting this page since it started.


Brett owns the site and does almost all the coding, deals with advertisers, and has all the money.  Replacing him wouldtake quite the coup and I just don't have the time and energy for such an endeavor.  

I thought Trucks was on board with coding and stuff now, so that should have freed up Brett to do more of the work that he will not release to others.

Dealing with advertisers aye? Well intrusive auto-play advertising needs to be gotten rid of, this is the ONLY website I visit regularly that has this sort of shitty advertising on it, so clearly it's possible to prevent those autoplay adds from being part of a website site. So if he can work on that too it would be appreciated.

OT, can we please have Japan numbers updated weekly even if no other regions are updated for months. We already have the official hardware sales every week for Japan so Brett doesn;t need to do any work at all except MC+Famitsu+Dengeki/3. And he pretty much has the top 30 software numbers sorted as well. So 70% of his job is done for him for Japan. Indeed he could probably had off the whole of the Japan charts to one of the staff. Outside of the top 30 software sales you could probably let a random number generator pick the sales for all other games being sold in Japan and not be more than 20-30% out for 90% of the games. The Japan charts can just about be run on autopilot.

Do something at least to keep the numbers on this site moving forward. The situation is really getting out of hand.



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Maybe some powerful company is paying brett to delay the charts to the utmost possible time. Maybe because they don't want people to see the current status of the market. "Just my imagination" hehe



How soon will be soon enough? 6 months?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Has Brett gotten tired of all of the comments from the Internet and has decided "fuck this site!" Seriously, if we keep guessing, one of us has to come up with the right answer as to what is going on, since no one else is going to give us answers.



Torillian said:
We haven't given updates because we have none to give. Brett continues to say that things will soon return to normal, and that continues to not be the case. Nothing has changed since this thread was created for better or for worse.

Most straightforward answer that I've heard yet. It's very unfortunate though. I'm a chart/data nerd, sounds like Brett needs to just call it and put the weight on someone elses shoulders.



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Thanks for the update until the start of May. Here's hoping that june will follow. Thank you



Well done on the updates!!!



Thank you so much for getting these updates in over the last several days. It's good to see the site returning to form.



So are we looking at a return to the bad not-so-old days? End of July is fast approaching and no July numbers yet posted. I thought we were approaching normalcy again, but perhaps not.



“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

Jimi Hendrix

 

binary solo said:
So are we looking at a return to the bad not-so-old days?

Hope so. :)