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Originally posted by azazela31
Believe me they are not only self sufficient, but also make a profit.
You think they'd be running the site if they were losing money?? Hell no.
40,000 x 25 = 1 million dollars.
IGN PEOPLE'S MONEY
So they are self sufficient, and do end p making money.
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Actually, you're wrong there. If you check Snowball's financial reports, IGN has been losing money for a long time, and they are losing a ton of it. You might want to get the facts before you start making assumptions.
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They could have at least made it so I can look at the forums and laugh
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Then it wouldn't help their problem. when you access a thread, you send a request to the server, who accesses the database, retrieves the information, and proceed to build the HTML file which it will send back to your browser. That is the problem they have now, bandwidth and server costs. If they allowed you to even view it, their problem wouldn't be solved.
Think of it this way. Most of us pay $20 for a magazine that comes 12 times out of the year. Isn't $25 a better bargain to access a website that has all the news on a daily basis, reviews and previews on all the games, codes, guides, exclusive interviews and media, and media on each and every game, not to mention having that for all the systems?