South Africa makes top 10 in global eSport rankings

Why are there different stats from the same source?

Can we get some clarity on it?

EDIT: local and international?

What I can understand from this is that we're comparing traffic from local and international, which is apples and oranges.

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Originally Posted by Lazygamer

I fear you don't know much about us or our revenue stream.



First up Mweb Gamezone is bigger than you according to those stats

• Unique visitors - 55 725
• Page Views - 107 093

So are we meant to all believe they are the biggest local site.

But how about we look at all traffic the EM captures.

B]MyGaming
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• Unique Visitors - 97 257
• Page Views - 600 015

Lazygamer

• Unique visitors - 334 827
• Page Views - 789 562

According to Google Analytics we received 48 000 uniques yesterday which is more than your monthly local total.

I presume admin is rpm as well? You know all of this so I don't know why you'd want it to come out in the wash, it's also dumb to keep using this as your marketing tool as people have our stats as well. Stop playing dirty it just makes you look bad.

Oh and please do post your most popular articles, I'm sure your loyal readers would love to see that.

Or maybe review a game or two if you're a gaming news website.

The the guy who didn't know we existed.. We are the only African media site that is affiliated with both metacritic and gamerankings. http://www.metacritic.com/publicatio...r?filter=games and we constantly bring brand new previews and features directly from the source as the international publishers fly us out to cover their titles.

So if you can handle my bad spelling and grammar at times you may enjoy it, or ignore my articles and read some of the varied stuff that Geoff, Zoe, Stephen and Matt post on a regular basis.

To the constant insults at my spelling and grammar. I'm not a trained journalist, in fact I only have an education in software and hardware engineering where spelling was never important. I'm aware of my flaws and will continously strive to improve.

That's me signing off on this one.

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What about Darryn? That's basically the only guy in this entire thread that got some praise.

What the hell is MWEB GameZone?

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Originally Posted by TheAvenged87

What the hell is MWEB GameZone?

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This.

MWEB GameZone

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Originally Posted by Lazygamer

The the guy who didn't know we existed.. We are the only African media site that is affiliated with both metacritic and gamerankings. http://www.metacritic.com/publicatio...r?filter=games and we constantly bring brand new previews and features directly from the source as the international publishers fly us out to cover their titles.

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This whole argument is rather funny and people can browse where they like. I don't view metacritic in any good light at all. As in, I think metacritic should not be a basis for judging games.

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Originally Posted by TheAvenged87

EDIT: local and international?

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Yes. Or rather local and total.

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Originally Posted by TheAvenged87

What I can understand from this is that we're comparing traffic from local and international, which is apples and oranges.

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Also you can't compare Google Analytics uniques to EM uniques. That's beside the fact that 48,000 is not greater than 97,000.

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Originally Posted by Jan

Yes. Or rather local and total.



Also you can't compare Google Analytics uniques to EM uniques. That's beside the fact that 48,000 is not greater than 97,000.

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I meant that both parties have different versions of the same data.

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Originally Posted by czc

People can browse where they like

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If more folks in the online tech news space in South Africa lived by this philosophy things would be far more pleasant than they are now. Your competitor need not fail for you to succeed.

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Originally Posted by Jan

If more folks in the online tech news space in South Africa lived by this philosophy things would be far more pleasant than they are now. Your competitor need not fail for you to succeed.

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True. They aren't even the same thing. It is like comparing News24 and MyBB. ;)

All jokes aside, I think it was pretty unwise to bash "competitors" in an article and then banging on in the "competitor's" forum.

The stats are interesting, but in this case they are only partially relevant because of the difference in platform. News site vs a full-blown community, which are both backed by bigger sites. Turns out LG has some stuff going on with News24. One is also focused on local, whilst the other tries to cover both local and international. See why they only compare on certain levels?

Also, stuff got pretty personal there for a while, which is never really warranted. We are many things, but petty, we are not. That should not really have happened. Or am I spewing nonsense?

As someone who reads both MyGaming and Lazygamer, I'm pretty disappointed in this whole thing.

I'd like unity and friendship. I hate that Lazygamer posted that article mentioning MyGaming in a bad light. The right thing to do would have been to contact James and say something along these lines: "Hey mate, just a heads up but the press release you got is wrong. Want to go for a beer sometime?"

That's how a decent person would have handled it. I'm deeply disappointed. And like I said, I'm a Lazygamer reader. In their last two Superbru competitions I ended up winning prizes.

So please Gavin, don't be a villain. South African gamers should stand together. Not push each other way.

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Originally Posted by Solitude

As someone who reads both MyGaming and Lazygamer, I'm pretty disappointed in this whole thing.

I'd like unity and friendship. I hate that Lazygamer posted that article mentioning MyGaming in a bad light. The right thing to do would have been to contact James and say something along these lines: "Hey mate, just a heads up but the press release you got is wrong. Want to go for a beer sometime?"

That's how a decent person would have handled it. I'm deeply disappointed. And like I said, I'm a Lazygamer reader. In their last two Superbru competitions I ended up winning prizes.

So please Gavin, don't be a villain. South African gamers should stand together. Not push each other way.

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Ideal situation. But improbable. Not the first time that he has taken jabs at this community. I've seen him comment on some articles before, typically ones where MyGaming achieved something. Also, there was that one banner thing a while back. I think they might have been related.

Not the most ideal behavior. But hey, bygones and stuff.