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Raymond W. Rowe (rwr...@earthlink.net) wrote:

:  Mr. Svensson and others at IGN work long hours gathering information
: about the industry and they report on the same day. In general, if
: anything important has happened in the industry on a given day, it can
: be found on an IGN site that night. All of this information is given to
: the public for free.

And all the end up doing is either creating controversy and people get 
upset and argue and stuff like that, and all the really important game 
news that I would think most people would want to see ends up on Game Fan 
Online. Imagine twists the information to borderline of credibility. Like 
how they take press releases, rewrite it as if they researched and dug 
for the news, and in the end, often screw up what the press release said. 
I remember when the PS price drop came up and they stated "All 
PlayStation games would be $49.95 MSRP", yet the reality was all games 
made by Sony would be $49.95. That was in a press release, which is where 
they got the info from. But because they rewrote a press release, unlike 
GFO which just posted the release like other sites do, they screwed it 
up. Or how about the time NGO reported the potential censorship about 
FF7, which up until that point, nobody was really worrying about. Then 
all of a sudden after this story, there is massive talk about censorship 
all over the place, web sites start putting up what NGO said, petitions 
started, and only a day or two later, PSX Power, their sister site, says 
that everyone should get a grip, how sony hasn't said anything yet on it, 
etc etc, when they are the ones who caused the hysteria. Or how about how 
NGO and PSX Power have ripped off Geisen, a Japanese online site, with 
major news, even copied for word for word, and didn't give them any 
credit. Heck they got caught too because Geisen, which really is a 
respectable site, made one tiny mistaken in their story, and yet that 
same mistaken appeared on PSX Power and NGO. Then there is the fact that 
Game Fan Online brings the info about the games and doesn't concentrate 
on the industry as much. Mega Man X4 pics, before everyone else, both GFO 
and I have Zelda pics up that Imagine still doesn't have, Front Mission 
Alternative pics, etc. They bring you the latest news from Japan, and 
often have pictures of stuff way before NGO or the rest of Imagine has 
them. Why? Because Imagine simply sucks when it comes to Japanese info. 
Too bad for them since a lot of the good info and games come from Japan.
So if you sit here and think that Imagine is all good and so forth, you 
really need to look closer. I always thought to myself one of these days 
i should just take down all the big screw ups and write them down for 
posts like this to prove the stupid things they do. I'm not really 
talking about mistakes, I'm talking about abusing their press status, 
rewriting info, stealing info, making controversial news just to gain 
readers and so forth.
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