Players insult him and threaten him, journalist Chris Dring runs away from social media

The journalist Chris Dring of gamesindustry.biz ran away from social networks, particularly from X, for a baffling reason: he received insults and threats by some players . His fault? Having reported the sales data of Xbox Series

Making a mistake for which we apologize, we initially only reported some controversy with the Xbox faction, but it seems that the attacks came from both directions and that, in fact, they were more violent on the PlayStation side, complete with accusations of causing “damage control” for Microsoft.

An absurd story, but not so much in the age of the internet

The surreal story was reported by the analyst of Circana, a company that monitors the North American video game market, Mat Piscatellawho pointed out that Dring was one of the few reporting real data on real in this place.”

Piscatella then showed an image of a post in which his name is mentioned in a distorted form, with these alleged defenders of no one knows what indicating two other targets to scare away: the ZhugeEX analyst, aka Daniel Ahmad , and he. In short, it seems that their aim is to eliminate from X / Twitter anyone who has data that goes against their wishes, which makes it really clear how these people think and the distorted way in which they believe they are helping their favorite multinational .