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Sites stealing our news!?

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:34 pm
by iceytoa1
Anyone else noticed that a website posted our news that we've had on our site, hell they use the same damn article, but they have now been listed as a source by BIG websites like Joystiq.
I am really, really annoyed right now :( Nitro or somebody if you wanna get onto them or something?
http://playstationlifestyle.net/2012/02 ... this-year/
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/rum ... velopment/
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/02/08/rumor ... #c35396292

Re: Sites stealing our news!?

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 1:11 pm
by RogueStarkiller
I've addressed the issue over at www.gwtor.com forums too. I've already posted comments at several of the sites linking to the PlayStationLifestyle article. I've also sent a tweet to the author of the article itself. I don't expect a reply but it still needed to be done.

Re: Sites stealing our news!?

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 1:22 pm
by spartan64
Uhmm what? Isn't that a good thing? It creates a lot of publicity and interest to the game plus it has ended up on the joystik website and that would get a heck of a lot people aware of it. Although I am pretty pissed that they haven't given credit to our site.

topic moved from news & rumors

Re: Sites stealing our news!?

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 4:26 pm
by Scott
Ya, this happens a lot. Even G4 did this with the GameSpy servers and mentioned this site as The Battlefront Community forums without a link.

It's great for Battlefront, bad for us. Or at least not good. If those sites DID link here traffic would probably jump significantly. That of course would be awesome.

Re: Sites stealing our news!?

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 4:36 pm
by Darth Vader
As long as there is credit given to this site, there shouldn't be a problem.

Re: Sites stealing our news!?

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 5:31 pm
by Terrabyte20xx
Darth Vader wrote:As long as there is credit given to this site, there shouldn't be a problem.
And there lies the problem, they aren't giving the site credit.

Re: Sites stealing our news!?

Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 6:02 pm
by Nitro
Yeah.. that's too bad.. Not a whole lot one can do about it though. Some people.. :8(:

Re: Sites stealing our news!?

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 6:15 pm
by Scott
Direct credit to us here: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=139954 (look in the comments)

Indirect credit from Tuggie actually: http://www.gamebandits.com/news/star-wa ... eal-28560/