boards.ign is now Insider Only..

as far as news and screenshots, gamespot aint the only place, you can get those all over the net, so once again, theres no reason to pay for em when they are free.

 as far as buying game mags, i dont, i read all i need to know off the net for FREE .

 and as far as their board goes, outta every 10K posts they have on there 1 is of quality, and the mods are nazi @!&holes, so who would want to go to the place is the question?

Originally posted by Metal_Gear_Ray
I dont know, but IGn has gone downhill in the last couple of months. They rarely update, their reviews seem rubbish to me.

I would be seriously considering Insider if they would show me what insider is all about, perhaps a free 1 day trail?

thats exactly what i have been thinkning - 20 dollars isnt that bad when you consider you pay that for a mag subscription but ign has been lacking in updates - they take off almost every holiday - even ones i dont get off for at school and work - also they have been pretty half assed about things lately - it might be a lack of news or it just might be they are getting lazy but i think the paying for a forum thing is pretty lame in the least - i mean what happens to all those people that were on the board before this rule was made - are they not allowed into it now

lol looks like Darth Joyda will be making his way back here possibly if thats the case

And I am a proud part of the subscribers. As I was unable to subscribe myself, a fellow member paid it for me If someone still frequents it, aka, has an insider, my username is Artificial Stupidity.



It\'s a really cool place, IMO.

I agree with what Ddaryl says.

The ad market is ****. IGN needs to get $ to be able to pay their staff, server, badwitdh costs etc.

PSX_j: "They can expect to see the number of viewers to drop drastically"

Well, that should be good for them, why would they want non-paying viewers that only cost them money?
Non-paying customer=bad customer

People need to realise that staff, servers, bandwidth and other stuff isn\'t free, and never will be. Before, all this was paied for with the ad revenu. Not any longer.

Some say: "I can get movies etc from other places for free"
Well, maybe you can that right now, but when the place you get them from becomes too crowded they will probably not be able to pay for the bandwidth which means they will have to charge $ or stop serving movies etc.
Places like that will probably become too crowded when the major players stop offering things for free and people then try new places.

Often when I get PR mails about screenshot and movies there are notes that say:
"Do not link to the movies directly, download them and serve them from your own server".
Guess why?


This site is cool for the moment though, I only need one cheap server, and the little revenu I get from the ads pay for this cheap server. I can\'t pay for staff or stuff like that though... no $.

yeah, its been almost 6 years and i never received a cent


i did it all out of love baby!
although i dig them swede smokes

LOL @ Sublime What a coinsidence Yet, I was begged to stay - in such a manner, that a certain member-friend of mine BOUGHT me insider. Wasted 20 bucks on me. And everything that is offered to you as free, should be taken




But, fortunately I have time enough to frequent both IGN and Psx2Central. Don\'t worry.