IGN and Gamespy merger

[skelly]

This is my understanding of the situation.

[bbobb]

LOL

So who get's to be the girl in pink? ferricide?

[thray-walsh]

Hopefully, if there's some editorial overlap...IGN will warm up to GameSpy's excellent belief that Copy Editors are an integral part of journalism.

[Drinky Milk]

I'm pretty ignorant on the whole subject, but what would happen once they merged? Would they just be affiliated with each other, or combine into one "super site" per se? www.IGamespyN.com?

Oh, that was good.

[skelly]

The idea is to keep all the properties separate, and today we've heard many business reasons why that is supposed to be sensible. We'll see how it goes.


Things will definitely remain the same for the near future, that's for certain.

[Rumpy]

Anyone remember N64hq.com? That place ruled. Ran by one guy iirc.

[Grave]

Oh, this is fantastic. As I see it, Gamespy wasn't sucking nearly as hard as they should have. This should help.

[voltz]

They were better as IGN64

I had alot of fun with that site when it was just one platform.

The $60 million price tag is bullshit. In fact, its overinflated by many hundred percents. Sadly, we will never be able to disclose how much we purchased it for -- part of the agreement.

I have a feeling it's gonna leak out somewhere.

While this may be big news for both sites, the last thing I need to see changed is the addition to sub fees for gamespy's download database or their game server clients. Hopefully it'll never come to that.

[ChaoofNee]

This is my understanding of the situation.

Makes sense to me.
I think Getter Robo would've made more sense, though. You can be the third part, BskellynT.

I hope ClassicGaming.com isn't affected.

[Sl1p]

I love Gamespy to the point where I would like to hug it.

IGN is good for movies.

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This deal confuses me X___X