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I haven't visited for a while and this news is about a week old, so bear with me if I am repeating.
Can anyone remember PC Accelerator (PCXL) ? It was a US magazine that was a combination of "Loaded" and "PC Format", a sort of "Lad PC Mag".
As for the readership, well if you took all the lamers, flamers and morons from every FPS Gaming BBS ... well, you know what I mean.
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There was a poll by another Gamers Site offering a Quake2 challenge, both PCXL and BW were in the poll and for a while had similar results.
Then this loud american came to these hallowed boards and began talking b*ll*cks about how PCXL was gonna whip BW in the poll and generated a lot of nasty remarks.
Then the PCXL website started nasty comments about BW, which was well out of order as BW was not a commercial concern at the time.
In the end PCXL won, not surprizing as they had a far bigger membership, they got their match against the Gamers Site.
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36324,00.html
This is a report from Wired Magazine on E3, but they have an interesting piece in it ...
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Thanks for the Support, Guys: Overzealous fans and supporters can sometimes be more of a detriment than a blessing, but they've never killed a product. Until now. PC Accelerator, a magazine aimed at high-end gamers, was shut down because its readership of hardcore gamers were flaming its advertisers. They wrote obscene letters to PC makers like Dell for advertising in the magazine, since most hardcore gamers build their own PCs.
The worst case was when AOL sign-up CDs were included in an issue. "You wouldn't believe how many people microwaved their AOL CDs and sent them to AOL, saying 'Don't ever advertise in PC Accelerator ever again,'" said one former staffer. Publisher Imagine Media, which has over a dozen gaming magazines, didn't need this headache and pulled the plug.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
So there you go
Can anyone remember PC Accelerator (PCXL) ? It was a US magazine that was a combination of "Loaded" and "PC Format", a sort of "Lad PC Mag".
As for the readership, well if you took all the lamers, flamers and morons from every FPS Gaming BBS ... well, you know what I mean.
[flashback]
There was a poll by another Gamers Site offering a Quake2 challenge, both PCXL and BW were in the poll and for a while had similar results.
Then this loud american came to these hallowed boards and began talking b*ll*cks about how PCXL was gonna whip BW in the poll and generated a lot of nasty remarks.
Then the PCXL website started nasty comments about BW, which was well out of order as BW was not a commercial concern at the time.
In the end PCXL won, not surprizing as they had a far bigger membership, they got their match against the Gamers Site.
[/flashback]
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36324,00.html
This is a report from Wired Magazine on E3, but they have an interesting piece in it ...
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Thanks for the Support, Guys: Overzealous fans and supporters can sometimes be more of a detriment than a blessing, but they've never killed a product. Until now. PC Accelerator, a magazine aimed at high-end gamers, was shut down because its readership of hardcore gamers were flaming its advertisers. They wrote obscene letters to PC makers like Dell for advertising in the magazine, since most hardcore gamers build their own PCs.
The worst case was when AOL sign-up CDs were included in an issue. "You wouldn't believe how many people microwaved their AOL CDs and sent them to AOL, saying 'Don't ever advertise in PC Accelerator ever again,'" said one former staffer. Publisher Imagine Media, which has over a dozen gaming magazines, didn't need this headache and pulled the plug.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
So there you go