You know who's territorial as fuck? Are you ready for your mind to explode again? 1..2..3: Eventhubs. Maybe I should start to hate them? too late.
Aruarian Reflection already threw you your back with a couple of sentences about the comparison of news updates. EH hasn't been doing any better than SRK in terms of number of updates. And all you could reply with was some half-assed conspiracy theory about streams. (which doesn't even relate)
Humoring you, my reply is the idea of SRK telling EH to lay off the evo season doesn't make any sense. My complaint about eventhubs cockblocking iplaywinner/team spooky streams came from zero coverage of their locals or smaller tournaments like montreal. those aren't evo branded. majors like wcw, because it's so heavily advertised, they can't help but make news out of it. (But they still avoid embedding the stream directly to the site, and they had no problem doing that for level-up streams or oni/evil ryu reveal streams).
The rest of what you wrote, I'll just avoid like I did before. It just reads like some dude who's comparing his months of time on eventhubs with a few minutes on srk/ipw. "I would go to SRK more if SRK weren't down" stupid. SRK hasn't been down since Gamerbee blew Justin up last year. You haven't been visiting anything outside of EH enough to make the comparison that they're better.
And here's the finisher. Being territorial, Catalyst is doing something right, if people like you are willing to look past their shady as fuck citation practices for multi colored guides derived from lifted SRK posts.
Once again, you have zero reading comprehension. I'm defending Eventhubs because everyone is saying Eventhubs = trash and SRK/IPW = Godlike. I don't honestly give a fuck how territorial Eventhubs is because SRK is exactly the same way. I'm not saying EH > SRK, but that at the very least, EH is a very useful resource for a large number of players, whether you want to admit it or not. A resource that shouldn't be trashed just because people are biased or think it's the "cool thing to do."
As for the news, I visit both pages pretty much everyday. EH news is better. As a consumer, I honestly don't care where the news comes from as long as I get it in its entirety. The only news that SRK posts that EH doesn't post happens to either be related to Evo or have an inherent problem with EH (coincidence?). On the other hand, EH posts far more news than SRK. I'm a lazy as fuck person and I am on the SRK boards just about every single day (Joekage and Chaotix can attest to that). There's no way in hell I'd be visiting EH if it didn't provide me information that SRK can't or won't do. And- as the Tournament Organizer of the largest tournament in my state, a tournament that FindMyFarms, Chaotix, and soon Joekage have attended/will attend, I can't help but sympathize when Eventhubs manually posts my tournament info on their front page newsfeed whereas SRK very rarely posts local events (maybe once a month?) on their newsfeed.
Eventhubs has no incentive to provide coverage of local/smaller tournaments. If you submit info on your tourney, they'll put it as a local event- but to provide coverage? Zero incentive. Honestly nobody cares about the smaller tournaments except the people already attending. If it's a major and it's not related to Evo, it'll be on Eventhubs guaranteed with results posted clearly. The same can't be said for SRK.
And don't even try to act like I don't visit anything outside of Eventhubs. You're just showing your ignorance. I'll give you a clue- MY thread is the second most active thread on our regional board on SRK. I'M the guy who gets everything together for pretty much the entire fucking Arkansas fighting game community. I am on SRK probably 10x more than I'm on Eventhubs. What the hell have YOU done for your community?
Pssh, try to tell ME that I'm only on Eventhubs. If you spent any amount of time on SRK, you'd see that I'm very frequently on the Newbie Saikyo Dojo helping new players out with their problems.
And you bet your ass Catalyst is doing something right. I shouldn't have to dig around looking for something that should be easy as hell to find. If I'm an aspiring Street Fighter player and I want some brief info on how certain things work: Do I go to SRK and read through the blank Wiki or the garbage stickies (seriously, half of the matchup threads have blank information saying "Coming Soon!") or do I go to EH? IPW also has excellent guides, but the whole website isn't structured as clearly as EH and they're a bit too much... "info-overload." Eventhubs is like the Sparknotes to the SRK threads.
First, SRK has been a respected community fixture for ages, and they've given back to the community time and time again. Whether you like them or not, their actions have earned them measure of respect over the years. EventHubs doesn't share this luxury.
Secondand this is the big one IMOSRK aren't unapologetic content thieves. Where does most of the information on SRK come from? SRK members. Where does most of the information on EventHubs come from? Other places. And not only that. EventHubs has a long track record of taking information without giving proper credit, taking videos and reposting them, etc.
This isn't to say that SRK or IPW or any site is perfect, but when those sites fuck up, they usually own up to it and fix their mistakes. If EventHubs fucks up, they'll just ignore you or ban you from their site if you complain about it there. And they don't even seem concerned that they fuck up so long as they have some kind of content to put on their front page.
So anyway, EventHubs could still earn the respect of the greater FGC if they really wanted to, but I don't think they're as interested in that as they should be. It's the most visited fighting game fan site out there as far as I know. That's what they care about. As long as they've got that, they don't care how they got there.
I like SRK. I don't know how this "I hate SRK" thing came around. I just think it's unfair to shit on EH even if they do some shady things. SRK's been good to me and like last year, I'm gonna attend Evo this year. As for EH being shady and immature- yeah sure. I'll agree. I've seen much of it first-hand. But, I'd argue that what they provide is good enough to offset their shadiness. Perhaps not for content-owners, but definitely for the end-user. Anyway, I think Maj should just sue EH if it becomes a big deal (since he wrote a big article about this a while ago). SonicHurricane has rights to their works which EH can't reproduce unless given permission from SH. Considering EH also makes money for SH's content, that's probably a pretty big problem (under the law).
DryEyeRelief said:
He implied the idea that it's common occurrence.
And unsurprisingly, you again make these stupid assumptions. I'm on SRK nearly everyday. I never implied that they're down constantly. I said that they've been down for the past half-day which, when I posted, was a FACT. Now keep trolling. Oh and yeah, SRK does have a lot of problems, most noticeably their buggy forums. I've never been on forums as buggy as SRK's. I still use them, but you really can't help but notice all the problems with them.