I agree that this is a bit much, but IGN, like any web-only publication, is desperate for advertising dollars and they'll do what they have to do. Considering that this level of advertising is *only* on ign.com, and not their sub-sides (cube.ign, ps2.ign, etc.) it's not as bad as some people are making it sound.

But that won't keep me from referring to IGN as "McIGN" from now on though. :)

I could see doing that if it were for a videogame product but having them do McDonalds damn pancake things is surreal.

The fact that they have advertising plastered all over the place is one thing, but they also ask for money for exclusive content. They are no longer a respectable games outlet and have to justify their existence in some way through advertising dollars.

PA does fine and they have at the most 2 or three banner ads that are nowhere near as intrusive.

Well I used to work at a dot-com and I know all too well how hard it is to make money giving away free content but there is a point at where it starts to become insane.

Looking at that made me want to change my website project to a IGN ripoff.

But I managed to secure a bunch of 80s trash for review, so I'm sticking with Culture Multure for now.

Anyways, X-E also reviewed McGriddles at http://x-entertainment.com/articles/0807

Makes me glad that they aren't available in New Zealand yet. I'll stick with me Massive McMuffin for now.

you could always sign up for 25 bucks ayear or 5 bucks a month so you wouldn't have to look at the ads. What is the big deal? They provide good content and have to pay for bandwidth somehow. So sign up already.

https://smy.ign.com/my/sb?RegPath=2®Action=regsub¶ms=%23action%23payment%23regAction%23login&network=1

I have no problem with paying for content but my problem is that their content is not exclusive. They are a news site and I just get my game news from other sources.

If they had exclusive content like a web comic then I would subscribe.

But to get me to open my pay pal account they have to be the only one who can do what they do

Well, they gotta sell McGriddles somehow.

"hmm, what are we going to do with all them left over egg mcmuffins?"

"well, little ceasers used their left over crust as "crazy bread"... taco bell uses old tortillas as "cinnamon twists"... and dominos pizza uses excess dough and rotted cheese as "dots" ... so how about we just shove some cinnamon inside and sell it for twice as much?"

"okay"

Yeah but to videogame nerds.. we don't usually get up before noon

what? those logos are barely noticible ... all 25 of them.