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Ishmael
630th Post
Red Carpet Regular Member
"Those sell-outs at IGN"
, posted Wed 7 May 10:27
Thanks for the Professor for the alert about IGN merging with another corporation. The only thing I could find on IGN's site after doing a quick check was a small blurb stating that IGN will be going private after this merger goes through. It will be interesting to see what changes, if any, this change in ownership brings about.
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Batsu 107th Post
Regular Customer
"about IGN..."
, posted Wed 7 May 20:54
...I doubt the change in ownership will relieve IGN of its "Gas Face Recipient" status, which it has had since it started that IGN Insider business.
quote: ...I doubt the change in ownership will relieve IGN of its "Gas Face Recipient" status, which it has had since it started that IGN Insider business.
I will never understand the purpose of IGN Insider. All the "exclusive news" can be found on dozens of other free sites, or Japanese sites a few days earlier. The features are always dumb and the boards are populated with the worst people on the internet. When they originally closed off their boards, it was like a ripple of idiocy as the regular posters spread out over every BBS on the internet.
[this message was edited by Radish on Wed 7 May 21:21]
quote: ...I doubt the change in ownership will relieve IGN of its "Gas Face Recipient" status, which it has had since it started that IGN Insider business.
I will never understand the purpose of IGN Insider. All the "exclusive news" can be found on dozens of other free sites, or Japanese sites a few days earlier. The features are always dumb and the boards are populated with the worst people on the internet. When they originally closed off their boards, it was like a ripple of idiocy as the regular posters spread out over every BBS on the internet.
*shakes fist* I'm one of "those" poster!!:P
Undead Fred
578th Post
New Red Carpet Member
"Re(2):about IGN..."
, posted Thu 8 May 15:31
quote: ...I doubt the change in ownership will relieve IGN of its "Gas Face Recipient" status, which it has had since it started that IGN Insider business.
I will never understand the purpose of IGN Insider. All the "exclusive news" can be found on dozens of other free sites, or Japanese sites a few days earlier. The features are always dumb and the boards are populated with the worst people on the internet. When they originally closed off their boards, it was like a ripple of idiocy as the regular posters spread out over every BBS on the internet.
I've gotten to the point where I HAAAATE IGN. It got to where EVERY page I tried to load had to "go to commercial" first. It even did that once when I just tried to go to the main site itself!
Whee! Summertime!
OmegaDog
620th Post
Red Carpet Regular Member
"Re(3):about IGN..."
, posted Thu 8 May 16:15:
Their e-mail service (when it's up) is at least a nice place to send gaming spam for when I enter contests or display e-mail addresses on BBSes. It keeps extraneous mail out of my shell accounts.
To avoid the ads, I have a bookmark that takes me directly to the log-on screen.
And with regards to IGN itself -- well, it's not that bad for the stuff you can actually see without an IGN Insider account. They're not horrific with regards to ads either. (Of course, I define "horrific" as opening a site and getting pop-up porn-stormed.)
"IT'S PAYBACK TIME..." "LOCKED AND LOADED!" | CCT: NEXT STAGE IS 13 |
[this message was edited by OmegaDog on Thu 8 May 16:33]
Ammadeau 147th Post
Regular Customer
"Re(2):about IGN..."
, posted Thu 8 May 21:09
quote: ...I doubt the change in ownership will relieve IGN of its "Gas Face Recipient" status, which it has had since it started that IGN Insider business.
I will never understand the purpose of IGN Insider. All the "exclusive news" can be found on dozens of other free sites, or Japanese sites a few days earlier. The features are always dumb and the boards are populated with the worst people on the internet. When they originally closed off their boards, it was like a ripple of idiocy as the regular posters spread out over every BBS on the internet.
Actually, their dreamcast import invasion board was great, with intellgent posters and interesting discussions... then without so much as a not of warning, they boards were all made insider. I might have joined if they had provided at least some advanced notice, but such stupidity does not deserve to be rewarded.
IGN also has the dubious honor of having the worst reviews on the net, the score based entirely on how much the company pays to advertise their product. It is a very useless place.
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