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I get that the suits want to get rid of "VN" and roll everything into "IGN", probably saying a lot of fancy corporate-speak while doing it. But what real purpose does it do to abolish the old boards?
Look up at the top. We already have an ign.com address. There's a big "Powered by IGN" graphic over the shadowblade chick. We already know who's boss around here. Why risk banishing a loyal membership to the four winds and the 500 "sekrit" boards that everyone is now making?
Heavy-handed corporate attempts to modify users' behavior always end in failure unless done with subtlety... and IGN has all the subtlety of Microsoft on a meth binge.
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Because fuck you, that's why.
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IGN/VN is dying. Soon to go bankrupt and be closed.
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Voodoo-Dahl posted:
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Because fuck you, that's why.
 
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Now that we have the monkey on our back they'll go all /crack dealer on our asses!
Yo bitch, I gave you a taste now you gots to PAY!
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I blame Mithan!
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The people using both board systems is dropping and they think pushing them all together under one system will revitalize it is my guess.
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__Bonk__ posted:
IGN/VN is dying. Soon to go bankrupt and be closed.
Yup.
NewsCorp(under multinational investigation)is going to get away from this sort of thing soon.
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Yossarian_42 posted:
The people using both board systems is dropping and they think pushing them all together under one system will revitalize it is my guess.
This has the taste of ToA.
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Someone trolled Mithan and he's now on meltdown mode!
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Phlegm573 posted:
There's a big "Powered by IGN" graphic over the shadowblade chick.
That's not a SB, it's an Inf - ya noob.
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Eager_Igraine posted:
Yossarian_42 posted:
The people using both board systems is dropping and they think pushing them all together under one system will revitalize it is my guess.
This has the taste of ToA.
I was thinking it was more like the merging of servers, but yeah...
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The MMO boards died, literally. My guess is that was the only thing carrying them for a long time. Hell only one of the WoW class boards has received a new post since November of last year.
I guess everyone on VN that played an MMO, especially WoW, quit playing.
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IMHO posted:
Voodoo-Dahl posted:
IGN posted:
Because fuck you, that's why.
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Koneg posted:
The MMO boards died, literally. My guess is that was the only thing carrying them for a long time. Hell only one of the WoW class boards has received a new post since November of last year.
I guess everyone on VN that played an MMO, especially WoW, quit playing.
Even the main WoW board has seen a significant decrease in traffic over the past year, what with Cata being so (relatively) unpopular here and all the new games out.
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Id guess they dont want to maintain more than one board type, user set, code, etc... Its all a maintenance mess, so consolidating everything to the newest/latest system is the smart choice.
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:/ bleh, I can still post
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