This is no different from Jack Thompson's rants about games that don't exist. The less attention these wackjobs are given, the better.
These lying alarmists NEED to be ignored. The only people gamers should be paying attention to are their elected political representatives, and make sure they aren't being fooled by these idiots.
"Conservative News Service Cybercast today issued a release entitled "Sex in Video Game Makes Waves Through Industry", which focuses on a topic that has been our own focus on numerous occasions for notably different reasons - the Mass Effect sex scene. The article is riddled with quotes from one Cathy Ruse, a lawyer and senior fellow for legal studies at the Family Research Council. I found it helpful to read her words while imagining her foaming at the mouth."
@Cabrill, If you go to "Game News", then "your submissions -> articles" it should be listed there, with a number of options, one of which is "Remove this Article".
I have followed your request to put a disclaimer every time I mention vgchartz numbers in a post.
Plus, I already pointed out, those new players who learned not to trust vgchartz and did their own research are the ones who rose the most (I'm assume that of Just Ben, ixaarii and the like), as the market is designed. Those who blindly trust those with a high net worth, like in the real market, deserve to be punish accordingly.
I am just providing things for feelmyring and others with things to consider, especially since feelmyring said, "VGC is largely irrelevant to what we're doing here, since games here are priced vs. NPD numbers.", which I thought was disingenuous since only the NPD futures are priced vs. NPD numbers, the rest are priced vs. what lifetime sales are expected to be. Vgchartz has a role, just the importance or relevance of that role varies widely from user to user.
@Just_Ben, But that's the problem with assumed knowledge: the people who should be most responsible for spreading the knowledge don't mention it anymore, because it's assumed. Then all the headway made into ingraining people with a sense of perspective about VGC's numbers is lost, because newbies come in, see top 20 people throwing out VGC numbers WITHOUT ANY KIND OF DISCLAIMER, and think that VGC is a valid source of hard data.
I've made all my points before, and frankly I'm sick of repeating them. If people don't want to listen, what's the point?
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These lying alarmists NEED to be ignored. The only people gamers should be paying attention to are their elected political representatives, and make sure they aren't being fooled by these idiots.