What's preventing people from stealing this site's numbers?

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nordlead on 30 November 2009

Xepher said:

bugrimmar said:

What if.. say, one day, I just decide to create another site named BugriChartz, and I don't bother doing any research at all, and instead just copy the numbers on this site and change them a little bit to avoid any copyright infringement or anything..

I mean.. I find it odd that this is the only site tracking game sales in this magnitude. Why hasn't someone just come and grabbed the numbers here and made their own site yet?

Why should I steal this site's numbers when nobody but its own members takes them seriously? If you go butthurt because I said that sorry but thats a fact and that's the true. Wanna bet? Go to another site like Gametrailers, Gamespot, ign or so, become a member and start a thread in the forums. Name it "Ps3 sell xxx.xxx this week", in the post copy paste info founded in this site. In the end of the post type " Source: VGChartz". Wait for responses like "VgChartzlol", "VgChartz its not a reliable source", "Nobody care about VGChartz' numbers", etc.

That is, I answer you. Have a good day.

so you are saying you visit this website to troll it?

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MAFKKA on 30 November 2009

Ive seen alot of VGImaginaryChartz, VGLOLChartz etc throughout the web. But sure the numbers are interesting. But the Forum is where its at!

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Xepher on 30 November 2009

Rhonin the wizard said:

Xepher said:

^

Links?

Here.

"

Off the top of my head we have been cited directly by -

Forbes

NY Post

Birmingham News

Codemasters PR (I believe it was for Dirt)

Ars Technica

Kotaku

Joystiq

Seeking Alpha

Edge

The Telegraph

Toronto Star

Gamesindustry.biz

Sony indirectly uses it through Destructoid

PC World Blog

The Bit Bag

The Indianapolis Star

Dean Takashii's Seattle Tech Column

Nordic Hardware

A Few Additional Links

http://www.hdtvuk.tv/2007/08/wii_sells_almos.html

http://www.gamesdog.co.uk/news/news.phtml/6992/8016/Nintendo-Wii-catching-up-Xbox.phtml

http://www.tech.co.uk/home-entertainment/gaming/games-consoles/

news/playstation-3-beating-xbox-360-in-europe?articleid=263086201

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/08/13/wii_nears_xbox_360/

http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=123728

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41780

http://www.infendo.com/business/nintendo-nabs-70-of-top-ten-video-game-sales-this-week/

http://meristation.com/v3/des_articulo.php?pic=GEN&id=cw46c86e76b5b4c&idj=

http://blogs.business2.com/utilitybelt/2007/08/nintendo-philos.html

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/94294
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/93793
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/92901

http://www.absolutegadget.com/news/games/could-wii-become-top-games-console-20070818-711.html

http://ps3center.net/story-893.html

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2107227,00.html

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Wii-Puts-Xbox-360-s-Next-Gen-Lead-In-Jeopardy-

2-Million-And-Closing-4487.html

http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/05/wii_hits_seven_.html

http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php

http://www.theeverydaygamer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=44

http://www.clubnintendo.com/mensajes/level1a.asp?Id=423931

http://crunchgear.com/2007/05/07/gran-turismo-hd-one-of-these-cars-isnt-real/ < --- that's Xzbeat post!!

http://www.jeux-france.com/blog153518_Darkshao

http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/print/wirtschaft/660880.html" "

Huh? So you give me that list that includes some big names like Forbes (without a actual link to te vgchartz' "reference" ), some links to randoms sites and blogs and you proved me wrong?

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Xepher on 30 November 2009

nordlead said:

Xepher said:

bugrimmar said:

What if.. say, one day, I just decide to create another site named BugriChartz, and I don't bother doing any research at all, and instead just copy the numbers on this site and change them a little bit to avoid any copyright infringement or anything..

I mean.. I find it odd that this is the only site tracking game sales in this magnitude. Why hasn't someone just come and grabbed the numbers here and made their own site yet?

Why should I steal this site's numbers when nobody but its own members takes them seriously? If you go butthurt because I said that sorry but thats a fact and that's the true. Wanna bet? Go to another site like Gametrailers, Gamespot, ign or so, become a member and start a thread in the forums. Name it "Ps3 sell xxx.xxx this week", in the post copy paste info founded in this site. In the end of the post type " Source: VGChartz". Wait for responses like "VgChartzlol", "VgChartz its not a reliable source", "Nobody care about VGChartz' numbers", etc.

That is, I answer you. Have a good day.

so you are saying you visit this website to troll it?

Not really, I visit this site because people are funny in this site in so many ways, just like yourself. I like to read how a lot of people in here think they are game developers, professional critics, "hardcore gamers", they (and them opinions) are more important because they have 100000 posts and some people are "noobs", "trolls", fanboys or have a worthless opinion because they have 10 posts.

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dtewi on 30 November 2009

Xepher said:

Rhonin the wizard said:

Xepher said:

^

Links?

Here.

Huh? So you give me that list that includes some big names like Forbes (without a actual link to te vgchartz' "reference" ), some links to randoms sites and blogs and you proved me wrong?

So you basically ask for a link to prove that we have been cited and when the link is given, you say that you demand BETTER citations that some
stupid random thing called Forbes or the NY Post?

Mr. 15 posts, I call into question your beahvior.

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MontanaHatchet on 30 November 2009

Xepher said:

nordlead said:

Xepher said:

bugrimmar said:

What if.. say, one day, I just decide to create another site named BugriChartz, and I don't bother doing any research at all, and instead just copy the numbers on this site and change them a little bit to avoid any copyright infringement or anything..

I mean.. I find it odd that this is the only site tracking game sales in this magnitude. Why hasn't someone just come and grabbed the numbers here and made their own site yet?

Why should I steal this site's numbers when nobody but its own members takes them seriously? If you go butthurt because I said that sorry but thats a fact and that's the true. Wanna bet? Go to another site like Gametrailers, Gamespot, ign or so, become a member and start a thread in the forums. Name it "Ps3 sell xxx.xxx this week", in the post copy paste info founded in this site. In the end of the post type " Source: VGChartz". Wait for responses like "VgChartzlol", "VgChartz its not a reliable source", "Nobody care about VGChartz' numbers", etc.

That is, I answer you. Have a good day.

so you are saying you visit this website to troll it?

Not really, I visit this site because people are funny in this site in so many ways, just like yourself. I like to read how a lot of people in here think they are game developers, professional critics, "hardcore gamers", they (and them opinions) are more important because they have 100000 posts and some people are "noobs", "trolls", fanboys or have a worthless opinion because they have 10 posts.

So basically, to troll and insult the users.

Somebody please ban this guy.