22nd July 2005, 12:27 AM
Just recently, an odd thing has occured. Now whenever the urge to see if IGN has any new info comes up and I go there, I get an ad. No, that's not new. Just click on the skip button and, it's another ad. Okay, so by random chance I got it again.
Well, fast forward to 3 hours of me trying to get in, off and on, and you have someone who just can no longer access IGN.
What's the deal? Did IGN actually GET to this point without me realizing it?
The answer, is no. Turns out that the skip link no longer works correctly, but directly clicking on the IGN image on the left seems to have done the trick.
IGN SUCKS!
Correction, while I can now view the main IGN page, all clicks to articles lead to the same stupid advertisement page, and clicking on the IGN image only takes me back to the main page. At this point, viewing any and all articles on IGN has been rendered an impossibility.
Okay, after deciding to repeatedly try to just click on the article link itself, I can occasionally get through.
They made a very stupid mistake, because they don't understand basic probability.
They seem to have raised the chances of seeing one of those adds instead of the article to ABOVE 50%. This means that people will see the ads MORE often than seeing the article. What they don't get is EVERY SINGLE CLICK is independant of the previous attempt, so there is ALWAYS a greater than 50% chance. It is very likely that a person CAN in fact attempt to read an article many many times and fail on every attempt.
They have screwed their readers. I can understand needing to make money off of ads to sustain themselves. I never had a problem with their banners. This stuff though... Sorry, I just find no motivation at all to actually go to IGN any more. Gamespot it is then, for now.
Well, fast forward to 3 hours of me trying to get in, off and on, and you have someone who just can no longer access IGN.
What's the deal? Did IGN actually GET to this point without me realizing it?
The answer, is no. Turns out that the skip link no longer works correctly, but directly clicking on the IGN image on the left seems to have done the trick.
IGN SUCKS!
Correction, while I can now view the main IGN page, all clicks to articles lead to the same stupid advertisement page, and clicking on the IGN image only takes me back to the main page. At this point, viewing any and all articles on IGN has been rendered an impossibility.
Okay, after deciding to repeatedly try to just click on the article link itself, I can occasionally get through.
They made a very stupid mistake, because they don't understand basic probability.
They seem to have raised the chances of seeing one of those adds instead of the article to ABOVE 50%. This means that people will see the ads MORE often than seeing the article. What they don't get is EVERY SINGLE CLICK is independant of the previous attempt, so there is ALWAYS a greater than 50% chance. It is very likely that a person CAN in fact attempt to read an article many many times and fail on every attempt.
They have screwed their readers. I can understand needing to make money off of ads to sustain themselves. I never had a problem with their banners. This stuff though... Sorry, I just find no motivation at all to actually go to IGN any more. Gamespot it is then, for now.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
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