Look everybody wants the news, but not everybody wants to pay.

Although you can find all the stuff that I want on other sites, my only bitch is the forums. I can't even read them!!

Actually, you're wrong there. If you check Snowball's financial reports, IGN has been losing money for a long time, and they are losing a ton of it. You might want to get the facts before you start making assumptions.

Then it wouldn't help their problem. when you access a thread, you send a request to the server, who accesses the database, retrieves the information, and proceed to build the HTML file which it will send back to your browser. That is the problem they have now, bandwidth and server costs. If they allowed you to even view it, their problem wouldn't be solved.

Think of it this way. Most of us pay $20 for a magazine that comes 12 times out of the year. Isn't $25 a better bargain to access a website that has all the news on a daily basis, reviews and previews on all the games, codes, guides, exclusive interviews and media, and media on each and every game, not to mention having that for all the systems?

Gekko IGN is a better bargain than a mag, BUT all the info (reviews, movies, previews, analysis) can all be found on other sits for FREE.

IGN does have some exclusive material every once a while but it's not worth the 25 dollars. Ohh well it's our money and we do what we want with it, it's their site and they do whatever they what with it too. But they aren't going to get a subcrsiption out me.

Ditto. I refuse to fund a failing company. I may be rich but I'm not stupid.

Not quite. News is found in multiple places a lot of the time, because the company wouldn't get much publicity if news was only given out to the readers of a single website. But many times, IGN does have the news first.

As for media, IGN is the best you'll get. They put up all the media released by the companies, and make their own when they play the game. The only other site that comes close is PGC, and they don't post many of the movies, because they are paying for the server costs out of their own pocket.

For event coverage, IGN is always there. E3, GDC, TGS, ECTS, anything. IGN always is there. A lot of press confrences are attended by IGN. You really can't beat their coverage on events.

For reviews, they're great. They have reviews for every game that is released, and they're all from the same people. It's not like going to another site, and having 7 different people reviewing games. You'll get the same people's opinions on the game, which is always a nice thing.

For previews, they're the best. They get previews out quickly, and on pretty much every game. As soon as information is released about the game, IGN has a preview ready to go.

And then you have all the stuff you won't find elsewhere. IGN has their own hands-on impressions of Home Run King, because unlike these free sites, they get a chance to play many of the games before they're released. They also have impressions after taking Soul Calibur II for a spin.

You don't find a lot of this stuff on other sites. The reason we all like IGN is because they have quality information all on one site. Everything you want is all there. That's why we all like them, and that's why you guys are so pissed that you won't get it for free again. IGN is a great site, and it's well worth $25 a year.

I'm only going to say one thing about IGN...

If anyone can explain to me how these two sentences can be in the same article...

Sentence #1: "In a little over a year, the IGN Boards have gotten over 30 million posts, making it one of the largest, most active entertainment communities on the entire Internet."

Sentence #2: "none of our advertisers wanted their ad units to run on the boards."

If this is true, then IGN has the dumbest advertisers on the planet

When was the last time you clicked a banner add on a message board?

Today :D