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What if VgChartz starts charging a monthly fee to view sales numbers?

I won't pay. 334 75.57%
 
I'll pay. 23 5.20%
 
I'll go to BugriChartz instead. 85 19.23%
 
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Alby_da_Wolf on 22 January 2010
makingmusic476 said:
loadedstatement said:
makingmusic476 said:
Khuutra said:
makingmusic476 said:
Hm, the premium sub should help convince numerous industry people to sign up to the site, which means they could foreseeably post on the forums.

Should this happen, could we have a way to identify them? Either staff/mods being informed of who they are (and told to let it go public or keep it private depending on the person's wishes), or maybe give them a tag noting the company they're affiliated with. Don't force them into it, but give them the option should they choose to make a name for themselves on the site.

On neogaf the various insiders are given quite a bit of credibility, and I would want to see something similar here, lest every informed statement they make be followed by "and how would you know?"

@bugrimmar: Not even us mods can edit thread titles! Though I wish we could.

I rather like this, though it may be a case of putting the cart before the horse

It definitely is, and we may not even need such a feature for quite some time.  Despite the fact that the industry has grown more and more receptive to our site, interested parties have yet to show their face on our forums yet, except Shams.  I have few ideas of why they may avoid our forums, but I'll get into that elswhere.

Also, I see you're thinking of becoming a contributor yet again.  I think you'd be a much better fit in a certain other staff position, as you know.  ;)

There are some more developers that post here.  They just don't let you know who they are ;)

I can think of a coup of others off the top of my head.  One who is now perma banned and apparently hates my guts.  ='(  But none of them are  big time people 

Look at gaf.  David Jaffe, Geoff Keighly, and Michael Pachter all have accounts under their own name.  We have nothing quite like that here.

Now, that's one that would quite increase VGC credibility. Finally I get why gaffers are so haughty towards VGC!!!



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naznatips on 22 January 2010
Alby_da_Wolf said:
makingmusic476 said:

I can think of a coup of others off the top of my head.  One who is now perma banned and apparently hates my guts.  ='(  But none of them are  big time people 

Look at gaf.  David Jaffe, Geoff Keighly, and Michael Pachter all have accounts under their own name.  We have nothing quite like that here.

Now, that's one that would quite increase VGC credibility. Finally I get why gaffers are so haughty towards VGC!!!

Pachter and Jacob (The Source) have email discussions frequently. Jacob has posted some of them up as news stories before. The two know each other by face. Hell Jacob and I sat next to him at the Microsoft conference in E3 last year and talked to him about Natal lol.



Lostplanet22 on 22 January 2010

How did I miss this thread.



 

Alby_da_Wolf on 22 January 2010
naznatips said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
makingmusic476 said:

I can think of a coup of others off the top of my head.  One who is now perma banned and apparently hates my guts.  ='(  But none of them are  big time people 

Look at gaf.  David Jaffe, Geoff Keighly, and Michael Pachter all have accounts under their own name.  We have nothing quite like that here.

Now, that's one that would quite increase VGC credibility. Finally I get why gaffers are so haughty towards VGC!!!

Pachter and Jacob (The Source) have email discussions frequently. Jacob has posted some of them up as news stories before. The two know each other by face. Hell Jacob and I sat next to him at the Microsoft conference in E3 last year and talked to him about Natal lol.

You revealed Jacob's horrible secret, now he'll have to wear a paper bag on his face for the rest of his now ruined life!!!

 



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A fart without stink is like a sky without stars.
TGS, Third Grade Shooter: brand new genre invented by Kevin Butler exclusively for Natal WiiToo Kinect. PEW! PEW-PEW-PEW!   


halogamer1989 on 22 January 2010

No. Market to big box vendors and make sure that there is ample ROI for the overall site. That way subscriptions as a way to break even is not a necessity but an addition.



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bugrimmar on 22 January 2010
Kantor said:
outlawauron said:
bugrimmar said:
I DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULD CHANGE THREAD NAMES AND EDIT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS

show me how thx

You need to be an admin/mod, of course.

Not even that.

1) Become extremely proficient in coding.

2) Approach ioi and ask for a job as Assistant Development Manager.

Only ioi and TalonMan can edit thread titles, edit names, etc.


so... how do you become talonman or ioi?



Xelloss on 22 January 2010
bugrimmar said:
Kantor said:
outlawauron said:
bugrimmar said:
I DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULD CHANGE THREAD NAMES AND EDIT OTHER PEOPLE'S POSTS

show me how thx

You need to be an admin/mod, of course.

Not even that.

1) Become extremely proficient in coding.

2) Approach ioi and ask for a job as Assistant Development Manager.

Only ioi and TalonMan can edit thread titles, edit names, etc.


so... how do you become talonman or ioi?

While I do not know for sure, not knowing much about VGchartz internals - I would hazard an educated guess that becoming profient in php and mysql would be a good start. ( provided you meant "how do I learn to do what talonman and ioi do", is how I read it anyhow).

 

 



One-More-Round on 23 January 2010

Fuck vgchartz! i'll pay with my dump.



Kantor on 23 January 2010
Alby_da_Wolf said:
naznatips said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
makingmusic476 said:

I can think of a coup of others off the top of my head.  One who is now perma banned and apparently hates my guts.  ='(  But none of them are  big time people 

Look at gaf.  David Jaffe, Geoff Keighly, and Michael Pachter all have accounts under their own name.  We have nothing quite like that here.

Now, that's one that would quite increase VGC credibility. Finally I get why gaffers are so haughty towards VGC!!!

Pachter and Jacob (The Source) have email discussions frequently. Jacob has posted some of them up as news stories before. The two know each other by face. Hell Jacob and I sat next to him at the Microsoft conference in E3 last year and talked to him about Natal lol.

You revealed Jacob's horrible secret, now he'll have to wear a paper bag on his face for the rest of his now ruined life!!!

 

He could just change his shirt so it doesn't bring out his eyes so much.



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Lostplanet22 on 23 January 2010

After reading the most part of this thread I must say I like the additions what you get if you subscripe...Still I think 99$ is a lot of money for it. (Back in the day I would need to work two years to get that many in my country of origin) and how many users would go for it? I would not be surprised you would gain more money if it was like 20$/€.