IGN are a bunch of lying bitches
 

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."

I mean you couldn't be so full of ****, even if you tried.

http://dvd.ign.com/articles/354275p1.html

Re: IGN are a bunch of lying bitches
 

Are you sure about that? ;) :D

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Re: Re: IGN are a bunch of lying bitches
 

Maybe only in time IGN will be able to surpass themselves again.

Well obviously if they're not trying and they are that full of **** then they'd be even more full of **** if they were trying so....

Hasn't this been addressed already? Let's see, I think it was ed328 who pointed out that banner advertisements at forums don't work.

So what was the problem again?

i c, well, not like i care much anyways

So how do sites with like 500 memebers manage to survive with pop-ups and ads??

But whatever, there is always a good time in making fun of IGN!

good question

I would bet they are losing money.

I think the workers at IGN are greedy and they want to get paid too much

I think all ads should be taken off the internet, I mean they don't work...

who here ever clicks on ads?

plus they suck and detract from the look of a site.



although, I would rather bypass them than have to pay for stuff, but sooner or later, businesses are going to realize internet ads aren't as good as they used to be. and looks as if that has begun obviously

as for ign, I don't think they are greedy, but they do want to make a profit, that is the whole purpose of a business

I seriously doubt the ign writers and other staff members are driving porches to work after leaving thier big mansions

Without banner ads, how would companies get ANY money besides charging for things?

I mean, banner ads are hardly paying .20 for a click now, but they bring in some cash -- if you have enough people to click on them.

But for some companies, it's how they work. I mean, look at Newgrounds.com -- it's filled with banner and porn ads, just so the site can stay afloat.

Well like Xantar said, they're probably losing money. Also, a site with only 500 members doesn't have nearly the hardware, people, bandwidth, etc. costs that IGN does.

Well that's what you'd think, but they wouldn't be doing it if there weren't people clicking on the ads. You know how you are asked to buy things on the phone? Normally you'd think that no one in their right mind would actually listen to what they had to say and buy something, but that's a 450 million dollar a year industry.

Well look at PGC for example. Server costs over $500 a month. That's still not enough; hence, the forums were moved to ezBoard. And where does it come from? Billy works, and uses his salary to pay for it.

IGN is a company. The employees aren't going to all work 2nd jobs so they can pay for IGN. IGN is a company that needs to make profits, and right now, you don't make **** on the internet. You need to sell things. IGN is selling memberships, Amazon sells merchendise, porn sites have memberships, eBay charges people to sell products. Get how it works?

What does GameTavern sell? Or are you guys pulling out of your pocket just so we can post at descent forum, not one of those cheap *** ezboards? Gee, thanks! :)

Neo does have a real job, you know.

Unless he still hasn't gotten another job after being fired from his old lab. :unsure:

I don't know if Neo has a new job yet.. :confused:

I think we can all get together and donate the poor sod 5 dollars each... better tha giving my money to IGN. So don't worry we'll have the forums running...

*starts thinking realisticly and realizes that he's the only one willing to donate 5 dollars to gametavern*

I'd donate money to GT, but I don't think GT needs any, and I want to keep saving up for my car.

5 dolars won't change anything... but Neo's nice right.

He pays for us:D

Neo's good people. We all like Neo.