Go tear a strip off PC Gamer

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MYstIC G

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Originally posted by Durzel
A very fair point. I'm just worked up about these types of things in general as they seem to exist all around the Internet. Granted there is an argument that the responses were jokey, but the sentiment is still there (and misguided).
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There a part of Human Nature Durz, people group/cluster together, its what they do, if you hate that you're gonna have to go live on an island by yourself m8 :(
 
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ShockingAlberto

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if you dont want the isolated island, can i have it?
 
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old.ignus

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Ok I vote we all go to war on MaverickNick, he's arguing with TedTheDog.
 
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ShockingAlberto

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hhmm, im still cool with the 'us stop showing them up for the fools they are and they take dan200 from us and never let him back here' idea...
 
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MYstIC G

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Originally posted by ignus
Ok I vote we all go to war on MaverickNick, he's arguing with TedTheDog.
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That isn't the purpose of this exercise, this is a nudge to get PC Gamer to stop acting like BW and its community are less important just because the company has been around the financial block a few times.
 
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Durzel

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MYstIC G - I hope this has been a valuable lesson in the old school of thought that states that you shouldn't wish for things on others if you're not prepared for the consequences, least not a company/magazine directly involved in the media.

Before this thread started no one knew of any of the comments that MaverickNick had stated about BW, EB, BT et al. And whilst we can all argue about the validity of the statements until we're blue in the face the fact remains had you and everyone else not been so virulent in your abuse of PC Gamer, than we'd all be none the wiser about any of the things he's mentioned.

This is what happens when you fuck with people actually in the industry - they bite back.

I think it was warranted, as you lot came here looking to slag off a very fine magazine, with a clear ethos on morals and the facts. They did not say BW died, they said fell, which is completely correct. It is your comments which are unwarranted, not mine. I have my proof, look at that link I posted. Now give me yours. I have no agenda, I just don't like people like you coming to slag Matt et al off.
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Summo

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Blimey. I posted at PC Gamer because I thought it was a bit of banter. Just read the remaining posts and I'm saddened to have my name on it albeit not my real name.

As an aside, what's eating you, Durzel? You seem to have a stick up your arse about most things, recently.
 
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Durzel

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Dunno. I call things as I see it, often that rubs people up the wrong way.

There's nothing wrong with being partisan about something. I want BW to succeed, I want Blueyonder to succeed, I want Ford Motors to succeed, I want Westbury United to succeed. I don't wish failure or financial ruin upon any company or person. That said, I am a realist - and I call things as I see them.

It just irks me slightly to see people defending entities as if they were their own flesh and blood. On the one hand its an admirable quality, but its misguided and ultimately ends up with this sort of thing happening. On the whole this thread has done BW more harm than any possible short-lived good PCG piss-taking would've brought.

I will defend something I believe in to the bitter end, but what I won't do is deny the facts, past goings-on and paint a rosy picture of something to people who patently know a hell of a lot about industry goings-on than I do.

I know very little about BW's finances (unsurprisingly), and until tonight I was happy not knowing. This thread and the actions of the few has brought about an altogether unnecessary war of words between TedTheDog and someone who (whilst I cannot dispute or agree with his assertions) clearly knows a lot more about GSP goings on than I, you or anyone else does - and the net result is that now the general populous knows (whether its true or not) things about BW that most people would not have any inkling to.
 
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Ch3tan

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Wow when did that thread get all serious, wasnt when I last checked.

Yes it was posted as a bit of fun by me and contributed to by people in irc at the time.

Ho hum, it is actually an interesting debate, from what I read after the fun posts.
 
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MYstIC G

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Durzel put simply m8, I dont give a shit who I fuck with. If you'd taken the time to read my posts though you'll find out that I don't make a direct reference to them calling BW dead, just that the way they refer to it 'implies' that BW is dead..... next
 
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throdgrain

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bloody hell durzel it was just a crack ffs.chill out m8 !
I f you like I reckon someone will have a ladder to help you get down of that high horse! mind, it'l be a big ol' ladder! :)
 
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Will

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Just to make you all feel a bit better...

Taken from The Financial Times
Your Group's new media division (now incorporating BarrysWorld) is likely to
lose a similar amount to last year's £1.9m, with a near breakeven in this
second half compared with a loss in the second half of last year of £1.2m. Its
prospects for at least break even over the whole of next year are enhanced by
a recent move from a free model to a pay model for on-line gameplay. Your
Board's consistent attitude to new media has been to view it as an additional
marketing tool rather than a replacement for traditional retail channels.
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Damn, just re-read that... maybe not. Though he could be talking about the clan servers.
 
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bodhi

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/me debates registering just to point out that PC Zone is like 100 times better.

/me decides not to.
 
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Moving Target

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yeh PCZ must be good if Dan2k and me got in ;)
 
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old.ignus

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Erm a shop Staz, I'll show you one tommorow if you like.
Did I tell you about the automatic door at the hildreds centre that didn't open, and I had to open it with my skateboard? (Really painting an image of the shitehole town in which we live aren't I)
 
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Stazbumpa

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Thats because it is a shitehole.

But it has 3 nightclubs though.

Hang on, they're all shit, oh well, ho hum.
 
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old.ignus

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yeah and none of them will give you a job
 
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old.TheCat

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People, stop acting like the kids you so obviously are and let it drop. It's no big deal, unless you make it a big deal.
 
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old.TheCat

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Are you really an elite badass ghettopimp?

I was referring to the attitude toward Gamer.
 
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Wij

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Originally posted by TheCat
Are you really an elite badass ghettopimp?

I was referring to the attitude toward Gamer.
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Yes I am.

And have you read this thread ? We've argued this one out and the matter is closed thx :)
 
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old.TheCat

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Yes I did read the thread thanks, and I read the one that Foruf Knight (whatever his screen name may be) posted more recently, and the ones at Gamer forums that various BW members have posted over the past week. It seems as though some may have 'put it to bed' but others blatantly haven't.

Just saying my piece. Like it or lump it.

regards
TheCat
 
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