Surprising of IGN(Cube)

Jonbo298 · 05-20-2002, 09:42 PM

What surprises me is that IGN(Cube)(and others?) are not locking out E3 coverage to only Insider members as of yet

I betcha they will once E3 officially begins.

Jin · 05-21-2002, 12:36 AM

They better not make E3 coverage exclusive to IGN Insiders. Otherwise all hell will break loose.

DeathsHand · 05-21-2002, 12:57 AM

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Originally posted by Jin
They better not make E3 coverage exclusive to IGN Insiders. Otherwise all hell will break loose.

Err... I find videogames.com more convenient than IGN for E3 anyways... They have all the news in one big multiplatform list.. I like it that way...

Also you can see ALL screenshots (as long as they are from the latest update) without having their special service thing... whereas with IGN, you can only look at like 5 screenshots from one update and then it locks it... that happened with me and RE0... I was going down the list looking at them, tried to see a 5th, and it said insider only... so I went to videogames.com a little later and they had 19 (IGN had 20 I think... oh no boo hoo

) of them there and I could see all of them... *shrugs*

Revival · 05-21-2002, 03:02 PM

Ahh.. I'm glad I got Insider

gekko · 05-21-2002, 03:26 PM

Yes, they will lock most of their E3 coverage. Did you miss the ad?

Plus most of the live news updates go to the forums.

UncleNoName · 05-21-2002, 03:26 PM

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Originally posted by Jonbo298
What surprises me is that IGN(Cube)(and others?) are not locking out E3 coverage to only Insider members as of yet I betcha they will once E3 officially begins.

They already has some things locked out like this Zelda "must-see moive"...

Gamer · 05-21-2002, 05:38 PM

Aww, how i love insider

gekko · 05-21-2002, 07:27 PM

IGN r0x0rz!!

http://mac.ign.com/ <-- they launched IGN Mac today!

Off topic? Nah...

Nothing's locked

Angrist · 05-23-2002, 04:38 AM

Shoot, they're locking so many movies! And now GameSpot started it too!!

BTW I'm watching the press conference at the moment, and Miyamoto playing Mario is just zo cool!

Jonbo298 · 05-23-2002, 09:14 PM

Fu*k IGN up it's stupid A$$ basically everything is locked! I have never been sooo pissed at IGN!

I can understand locking a few good things, but christ! Lock everything(basically). Oooh, a few things are left unlocked, but these are games that most people don't need to know at the moment. I have sent a reallly nasty email to IGN about this, and I want to see what they say

But Join Me in the quest of sending nasty emails to IGN!

Bond · 05-23-2002, 09:21 PM

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Originally posted by Jonbo298
Fu*k IGN up it's stupid A$$ basically everything is locked! I have never been sooo pissed at IGN! I can understand locking a few good things, but christ! Lock everything(basically). Oooh, a few things are left unlocked, but these are games that most people don't need to know at the moment. I have sent a reallly nasty email to IGN about this, and I want to see what they say But Join Me in the quest of sending nasty emails to IGN!

Hey, Gamespot is even worse.

Jonbo298 · 05-23-2002, 09:45 PM

Ok, i'll add GameSpot to the "list". Anymore? tell me, anyone.

So far
1. IGN
2. Gamespot
3. " "

gekko · 05-23-2002, 10:23 PM

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Originally posted by Jonbo298
Fu*k IGN up it's stupid A$$ basically everything is locked! I have never been sooo pissed at IGN! I can understand locking a few good things, but christ! Lock everything(basically). Oooh, a few things are left unlocked, but these are games that most people don't need to know at the moment. I have sent a reallly nasty email to IGN about this, and I want to see what they say But Join Me in the quest of sending nasty emails to IGN!

Well if you actually paid for IGN Insider you wouldn't mind, would you?

Nothing in this world is free, deal with it. Online websites are going to cost money if you want quality. IGN provides by far the best gaming coverage, and if you don't like it, by all means, go to another site. More bandwidth for me

I pay for more than just IGN. FilePlanet is another I subscribe to. You guys bitch while waiting an hour for your download to start, I go immediatly and still get the file at over 100k/sec, and don't have banners on the site.

You got 2 options:

1) Fork over the cash, and get good gaming coverage
2) Sit around and bitch as IGN goes to an all-pay service while I laugh at you.

Jin · 05-23-2002, 11:00 PM

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Originally posted by gekko
I pay for more than just IGN. FilePlanet is another I subscribe to. You guys bitch while waiting an hour for your download to start, I go immediatly and still get the file at over 100k/sec, and don't have banners on the site.

Come on gekko, we can't all be rich. If you had 56K, got $5 for allowance, and were unable to see Zelda in action for the first time while other people were, you'd be bitching too.

I can't say that I've never bitched about it, but in truth IGN is doing nothing wrong here. They are a business, and therefore can charge whenever they feel like it, on whatever they feel like. It's how our country runs. If the consumer is willing to pay for a certain price on something, then it'll be charged. Simple as that.

Ric · 05-24-2002, 05:03 AM

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Originally posted by Jonbo298
Ok, i'll add GameSpot to the "list". Anymore? tell me, anyone.

So far
1. IGN
2. Gamespot
3. Porn Sites

It pisses me right off aswell, Ok so I can access IGN insider but thats not the point is it. BreakABone seems to post most of the Gamecube stuff they have on here anyway.

And if you are after Gamecube Videos all the decent ones are on nintendo.com anyway.