THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: ManaByte on April 23, 2010, 01:03:14 PM

Title: Fleeing a sinking ship? Casamassina leaves IGN...
Post by: ManaByte on April 23, 2010, 01:03:14 PM
He's going to Apple to be their global games editorial manager for the App Store.

What will bitchy Wii fans cry about now?
Title: Re: Fleeing a sinking ship? Casamassina leaves IGN...
Post by: magus on April 23, 2010, 01:19:54 PM
i guess the real question is

does anybody care about ign and/or matt casamassina?
Title: Re: Fleeing a sinking ship? Casamassina leaves IGN...
Post by: Sho Nuff on April 23, 2010, 02:52:40 PM
He's going to Apple to be their global games editorial manager for the App Store.

What will bitchy Wii fans cry about now?

Oh my god

The party is over!
Title: Re: Fleeing a sinking ship? Casamassina leaves IGN...
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on April 23, 2010, 03:02:55 PM
He's been there since the begining, right?  There's maybe 100 other people in the world who have had a decade-plus tenure at any internet comperable job out there.

I wish him luck, and yeah, IGN really has gone to shitsville lately, I blame Fox.
Title: Re: Fleeing a sinking ship? Casamassina leaves IGN...
Post by: Cheebs on April 23, 2010, 03:10:54 PM
iPad/iPhone games are better than Nintendo games. :shh
Title: Re: Fleeing a sinking ship? Casamassina leaves IGN...
Post by: maxy on April 23, 2010, 03:18:35 PM
but but who is going to hype Conduit 2  :'(
Title: Re: Fleeing a sinking ship? Casamassina leaves IGN...
Post by: Bocsius on April 23, 2010, 05:21:14 PM
Oh well, IGN had a good run.

I can probably count how many times I've been on the site in the past 12 months on one finger.

But for a while there, it was a daily thing waiting for the ~6 PST update. N64.com => IGN64.com => and on through the years. It was always the only gaming site I went to, to be honest. Good times.

But, like I said, I don't visit the site at all now. It's still qualifies as the only site I go to, though.
Title: Re: Fleeing a sinking ship? Casamassina leaves IGN...
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 23, 2010, 05:36:31 PM
it doesn't help that every single time they redesign the site they only make it worse, and navigation becomes more and more incomprehesible
Title: Re: Fleeing a sinking ship? Casamassina leaves IGN...
Post by: Himu on April 23, 2010, 05:38:26 PM
Why did you leave ign, manabyte
Title: Re: Fleeing a sinking ship? Casamassina leaves IGN...
Post by: Stoney Mason on April 23, 2010, 05:38:44 PM
Honestly I don't see any real difference between what IGN is now versus what they've always been.
Title: Re: Fleeing a sinking ship? Casamassina leaves IGN...
Post by: Himu on April 23, 2010, 05:42:58 PM
Honestly I don't see any real difference between what IGN is now versus what they've always been.

ditto

btw, your avatar is pixelated, stoney. I'll fix it up for ya.
Title: Re: Fleeing a sinking ship? Casamassina leaves IGN...
Post by: cool breeze on April 23, 2010, 05:49:23 PM
As long as IGN keeps this page up, it will have some worth:  http://www.ign.com/index/videos.html

Most video games sites are good for videos or news (blogs mostly) but I haven't really read anything written on an IGN or 1up in while.
Title: Re: Fleeing a sinking ship? Casamassina leaves IGN...
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 23, 2010, 05:59:16 PM
Honestly I don't see any real difference between what IGN is now versus what they've always been.

unless you mean content, they're always trying to "fix" the layout by adding layer upon layer of sub-navigation - it takes half a dozen clicks to get anywhere and half the time the links are broken

Title: Re: Fleeing a sinking ship? Casamassina leaves IGN...
Post by: Stoney Mason on April 23, 2010, 06:13:02 PM
Honestly I don't see any real difference between what IGN is now versus what they've always been.

unless you mean content, they're always trying to "fix" the layout by adding layer upon layer of sub-navigation - it takes half a dozen clicks to get anywhere and half the time the links are broken



I did mean content but their navigation has generally also been bad for most of the prior decade (The 2000's I mean). Their current format isn't ideal either but neither was their prior incarnation where they simply flooded the front page with dozens of links to everything on the site. The reality is that a site with that much "content" tends to always be junky.

ESPN has always had the same problem also.
Title: Re: Fleeing a sinking ship? Casamassina leaves IGN...
Post by: Purple Filth on April 23, 2010, 06:47:25 PM
Haven't been on IGN for a while now
Title: Re: Fleeing a sinking ship? Casamassina leaves IGN...
Post by: chronovore on April 26, 2010, 10:26:46 PM
Wait, so leaving IGN for Apple is seen as getting on a lifeboat? Seems more like it should be seen as getting off a steam-powered paddleboat and onto a a catamaran.

Though in fairness Apple is known for starting and bailing from game initiatives with the grace of a ballet dancer. So it's a catamaran covered with male ballerinas. Ballerinos? What was the question?