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IGN.com Needs to
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| If you are anything like, then you stop by IGN religiously everyday. Whether it be IGN PC, Cube, Xbox, PS2, hell maybe
even Dreamcast, many of us videogame fiends depend on IGN for a majority of our
videogaming news. I myself have visited IGN
almost everyday since I got my computer almost 2 years ago.
I thought that IGN could do no wrong, they were the best at what they do,
hell I even thought about naming my first born child IGN…..well maybe not but you get
the point. Anyway recently I have noticed an evil presence stirring at all IGN related websites. What I am referring to is IGN Insider. At first this seemed like a harmless little club that IGN had set up. Now however, it seems to have become a growing concern. For some of the news that IGN had giving out willingly in the past is now blocked to all but those who are “Insiders”. IGN recently posted pics of upcoming Gamecube games, but unfortunately, unless you want to pay like 20-30 bucks to join Insider, you cannot view them. What the hell is that noise!!!? Suddenly delivering late-breaking gaming news to us eager consumers has become overtaken by the desire to earn more money. Don’t get me wrong, I realize that it aint cheap doing what they do, but I think they make enough with all the ads that are posted on their many websites. I mean seriously 3-5 banners a site and…..how many total sites do they have anyway? They have sites for some of the damnedest things. IGN for man(Ok that’s understandable), but IGN Toys….WTF? I’m sure they make plenty with those ads alone to run their sites most effectively. And speaking of ads….I usually check out a couple of videogame related IGN sites, and I noticed a frickin’ Insider ad on all of them. Hell, in some cases it was the top story on the site, “Come join the Insider see what your missing”. If I joined it I’ll tell ya’ what I would be missing….about 30 bucks. I mean do they actually expect people to pay 30 dollars for gaming news? Why would someone spend the money of game info as oppose to spending roughly the same amount on the game itself? I like to know how certain games are coming along, but in my opinion it aint worth the money. In conclusion, I find it very shady of IGN to make us pay for information they have given out for free in the past. So IGN, put on your pajamas, take some Nytol, and frickin’ sleep |
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