XFactor to the NXL?

[manike]

Hahaha, I can see that.

 

[Chicago]

And let's face it Chi Town, it's not as if they are indulging in bare-faced lies here, they are massaging the truth a little for their own ends which is hardly unique in Paintball, not by a long chalk.

I'd go one step further and say WDP isn't even massaging the truth, it's 100% true, just not (I believe) presented in the best place.

Don't get me started on the press-release reprint factories we sometimes call 'paintball magazines' though. At least when you indulge in Nexus promotion PGi packages it as an editorial and not, say, event coverage.

Let ads be ads and let coverage be coverage, and let's not fall back on "Well, the rest of the industry does it too, so it's ok". If "the rest of the industry does it", that's usually a good indication it's a bad idea.

 

[Robbo]

I'd go one step further and say WDP isn't even massaging the truth, it's 100% true, just not (I believe) presented in the best place.

Don't get me started on the press-release reprint factories we sometimes call 'paintball magazines' though. At least when you indulge in Nexus promotion PGi packages it as an editorial and not, say, event coverage.

Let ads be ads and let coverage be coverage, and let's not fall back on "Well, the rest of the industry does it too, so it's ok". If "the rest of the industry does it", that's usually a good indication it's a bad idea.

I can see why all this may irk you Chi Town and I agree with you, it is most certainly irksome but I think one of the benefits of being a cynic (which I think both me and you easily qualify) is that we can slope our shoulders and let this cr@p slide off without too much trouble.

The knee-jerk defense of stating a pre-existing collective blame is, as you rightly say, no defense at all and only softens any moral dilemma felt (if any) by those being attacked at that time and I would also agree, it sucks, it really does.

But much as we see the same lunatic rationale used to justify pro teams in adopting designer cheat markers (private defenses) we will see companies attempting to justify whatever they get up to with peer group complicity.

And as for you classifying my promo of Nexus as editorial and not in tournament coverage, I don't think any degree of massaging was gonna make our results look good
At least we know all this bull has limits