Yeah, slower connections...

 

This is such a good quote tho:

Someone go down to Hell, they'll probably need their heating system checked.

Well at least all the crap can be centralised now, rather than spreading like a virus over the 'net.

 

burp ...who cares?

~comment of the day~

 

It's still not as bad as GameFAQs selling out to IGN.

 

gamefaqs isn't ign, its cnet... or are they the same? i have no idea.

as for ign, i always thought they were merged with gamespy anyways. they're both the devil, so it doesn't make much difference.

 

I always perfered GameSpy over IGN, but couldnt give a flying flick about either. They are both products of capitalist marketing schemes.

 

I thought GameFaqs did something with GameSpot who are owned by CNET.

 

well, either way, gamefaqs does have links to gamespy, cnet and zdnet, so who knows... as long as they dont make it 'pay to see walkthroughs' it doesn't really matter, i guess. oh, and ads don't start popping up.

 

Not that pay to see stuff would matter, someone will have it somewhere else within hours or even minutes, for free. Just have to search a bit more is all.

 

Not that pay to see stuff would matter, someone will have it somewhere else within hours or even minutes, for free. Just have to search a bit more is all.

Yeah, we gotta love the internet :thumb:
But having it all in one place sure helps a lot

 

actually, i don't even think they could make us pay. the owners of the faqs wouldn't be getting any money, and we've all read their legal mumbo jumbo they throw at the beginning.
just a thought though, on the never ending retardism that is gamespy.

 

God you dont know how much i hate IGN and Gamespy. I much prefer visiting small website for gaming news. You get the same without the crap

 

gamefaqs isn't ign, its cnet... or are they the same? i have no idea.

Yeah, I was thinking wrong. Not quite as bad.

@ShadowDancer: Yeah, GameSpot... this merger/purchase concerns GameSpy.

 

well, either way, gamefaqs does have links to gamespy, cnet and zdnet, so who knows... as long as they dont make it 'pay to see walkthroughs' it doesn't really matter, i guess. oh, and ads don't start popping up.

well GameFAQs has been good for years, i think it will for a long time. it has side ads, and yeah it's affiliated with Gamespot...but the core of it is fine. it has a fast server and no popups, and no signing up required

 

its not those ads that are annoying. its the ones that will come up before the page you actually want to view and it has one of those 'click here to reach your real destination and not this crap ad you'll quickly NOT view' buttons.

 

Yes, those are some of the MOST anoying things I have ever seen besides popups.

 

not to mention they don't work. unless you've got a really high speed connection and there's no loading time, you'll never see them. when it comes to me, i'm looking for the 'skip' button right off the bat. they don't usually even have time to load. but i guess the advertisers don't care, since i'm sure 1 out of 50 people will view it... by accident.

 

Yah, I'm one of those broadbanders that gets those adds in less then a second, so imagin how anoyed at them I must be.

 

gamespy I don't dislike that much...
however gamespot and IGN, those are terrible...
but the merger is between gamespy and IGN, not gamespot, anyways

 

Oh... yay... yet more... links... to... the... wait for 3 hours for your download to start Fileplanet. Joy, what a early christmas presant.

 

yeah, better off using some P2P program when downloading files. fileplanet is a waste of time.

 

Here's a link with the official story for those interested on the merging...

http://www.gamespydaily.com/news/fullstory.asp?id=5534

 

haha, nice ratio
"with 194,000 active paying subscribers and have registered over 26 million users"

that means about 25806000 users hate them.

 

And 193,000 out of those 194,000 probably are 12-year old AOLers

It would be nice if this new company went bankrupt in the near future. So we would get rid of two evils at once

 

Wow so there gonna merge. No biggy here. I don't visit any of them .. Probably gonna charge double the price too ... Stupid damn paid websites!