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Stop "Looting" The Front Page

You know, It annoys me when small independent websites on N4G are blatently building accounts on this website to ensure their news gets published. The article "Microsoft Misleading" is a terrible article because the author has spun the way the article is written. If the author bothered to watch the advert with a decent attention span, they would realise that the Microsoft advert clearly states "From £129.99" it's rather annoying that the front page has nothing but fanboy provoking articles being featured. However the more interesting information is how these articles get approved in the first place?

Is it meerly in this case PS3 fanboy's seeing some information that is disingenuous to Microsoft and think, hey! i'll approve that? Doubtful, afterall a massive percentage of N4G's viewership are by those that don't post articles, let alone them getting 3 stories that are approved and hit the front page. The work in my opinion is by Loot Ninja staff themselves. It's a tactic clearly used by the HipHopGamer who's podcasts are nothing more than dreadful, non-thought provoking and distinctly lacking in FACTS. I'm starting to go off N4G.com, which is a shame because its a great resource, but its blatently obvious small independent websites that are gasping for exposure are bending the rules, because its suits them. Stop 'Looting' the front page of decent content.

JD_Shadow6402d ago

It depends on if you have facts to back it up, or have some good, viable reasoning behind what you're saying. If you're just saying that a certain system sucks, it has no games, or whatever, then you're flamebaiting because you're not giving anything to back it up.

In the case of the "Microsoft Misleading" article, I don't think you saw what it was about: They said that they were advertising the Netflix thing they have, and then say that you need the Hard Drive (in the fine print) to use the Netflix feature, but then push the bare-bones Arcade SKU (which doesn't have the required hard drive to work the advertised features). 3/4ths of the people not watching that commercial will not read the fine print (if you're aware, most commercials that have fine print will only display it for a few seconds, if that), and thus put two and two together and think that they can just buy the Arcade SKU and be able to use Netflix (or, for that matter, have a hard drive included in that SKU). That's the misleading thing the article was discussing.

Also, there is a LOT of hypocrisy on this site from most of the 360 crowd (granted, some on the PS3 side do this too, but it's the 360 crowd that does this a LOT more). If there is something bashing the PS3 for whatever reason, then they are all for it and it's an unbiased article (no matter HOW it's written) that the "SDF" somehow is trying to hide because they are calling the article what it is. However, when there is an article doing the opposite (making the 360 the target of criticism), they suddenly end up rioting on the article and it's suddenly not a good article and so biased. I've been submitting things from my site criticizing Microsoft and I'm suddenly called a PS3 fanboy and sh!t like that (hell, even calling someone OUT on the sh!t they talked about a Sony thing gets you hell), regardless of what I actually SAID in the article (SUP3R reported my article about GameDaily's SOCOM review saying that I had a biased site even when I was saying that the things they were saying about the game controls and how they worked were false with the help of someone who actually PLAYED the game).

Just wanted to clear that up.

slik10006401d ago (Edited 6401d ago )

VideoGames 24/7. While we're at it... I think it should be a completley bannable offence for anyone to re-produce the work of Edge magazine, of the Gaurdian as theirs. I see it all the time, there is actually one on the pending section right now (I'm not talking about the one from Edge-Online btw)

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

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Jin_Sakai14d ago (Edited 14d ago )

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio13d ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing13d ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster9213d ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit13d ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing13d ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster9213d ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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