No need to apologize, mate! In all honesty, all the IGN hate comes mostly out of the well known internet bandwagon effect. It's cool to hate IGN, and it shows you're "intelligent" and not part of that uninformed mass of people that still care about what IGN has to say. I absolutely forgot the reasons behind it, all I know is that you *have* to hate IGN if you consider yourself a "true gamer" (whatever that may be).

Personally? I neither hate nor love them, I read some of their articles and find them to be informative, most of the articles are crap, but that happens with pretty much every media editorials, big or small -- it's just human nature to blindly hate the big ones, but keep in mind that today's "small" is tomorrow's "big". Whether big or small news companies, you need to learn how to be selective and pick the news and the articles you find interesting, and that goes to IGN as well.

With that said, they *do* generate a lot of traffic and I more than welcome this partnership, as I can see good things coming GOG's way due to it.

Geez, IGN, pay attention more.

Believe that if you wish, it does make it easy to ignore the actual reasons :)

So, pray tell, what were the actual reasons? Even if you do a quick googling and go back four or five years, the "actual reasons" seem to be our inherent conspiracy theories (the allegedly paid reviews, and whatnot) and our overly protective fear of losing something that we feel "was once ours but these guys are corrupting somehow" that makes us hate them as soon as they become "The Big Corporation".

I'm not saying I like IGN, but I sure as hell don't hate them.

Well, trying to get back on topic, and since I mentioned this partnership seemed to be good for GOG, could someone show me where on earth is there a link to this GOG promo on the IGN's articles?! Because I just skimmed through both of them and found nothing mentioning GOG, which would make this "partnership" quite one-sided...

[EDIT] nevermind that last paragraph, I just found a link right at the end of the article GOG mentioned. It's not particularly visible, but it's there, alright.

That has nothing to do with why IGN is disliked. It's generally because once a news/review site continually gives 9/10 or 10/10 reviews to games which are massively flawed and have many consumers who think the very opposite, people tend to think sites like IGN are corrupt - maybe not corrupt literally but they certainly seem to be terrified of giving a negative review to a highly-hyped AAA game from a big publisher. Because the publisher might not give them those exclusive review copies, exclusive info, interviews and most importantly they might pull the ads from the site, if they don't reciprocate with a good review.

Kinda the same reason pretty much every video game news/review site recently gave Elder Scrolls Online a negative impression/preview, all for the same reason - it's boring.... except for IGN

No point in pointing at actual reasons, you already believe I am "bandwagon" and defining what a "true gamer" is. Hence your opinion is solidified within stone. I mean unless a person lives on another planet they should be able to understand why individuals do not like ign beyond the "bandwagon theory.

So on topic, there is no link to the promo on the ign articles. I think GoG is simply taking advantage of the retrospective they are doing as an excuse to have a sale. Which is a good thing :)

Edit: found the link :P

Yeah, *horrible* place for the promo link. It should be the first thing listed in the article as well as part of the article title... SMH

Wow, pretty cool pair of articles (part 1 and 2). Really took me back to the good old days. Great job, GOG!

Dear wonderful GoG people,

This sounds awesome. I note you said while you don’t have every classic adventure game you are still trying. Any chance you’ll be bringing out more of the classics for me to throw my money at in the near future.

I know quite a few people who would love a chance to get a ‘legitimate’ copy of some of the lesser known Sierra classics such as the Laura Bows, Conquests series, Eco-quests and mixed-up series for the kids (we really could do with more games for youngsters here), and of course the hilarious Freddy Pharkas. Just slap them together with Dosbox and let us give you and Activision our money.

Pretty please.

I don't care about IGN but it's always nice to have more promos. Way to go GOG!

Nice promo, IGN still ain't getting a single hit from me though.

HA! IGN not doing their research about Moonbase Commander. Typical. Can't spell "ignorance" without I-G-N.

I think a critical game for a "year of adventure" retrospective would be anything from LucasArts. Now get Disney on the horn and work out a deal ;-)

It wouldn't surprise me if the lack of mention of GOG for Moonbase Commander was less about doing research and more about a business partnership with Valve. They've done the same with EA and Rockstar in the past. And yes. the same applies to GOG for this article.

In many ways there are good reasons for calling IGN out on their bullshit, as they are certainly the most obviously compromised when it comes to journalistic integrity, but no-one should believe that others are much different.

Seen those "free" magazines that your local GameStop or electronics market offers, filled with glowing reviews of appallingly bad games? That's essentially what online gaming sites like IGN, GameSpot and EuroGamer are. The only reason that people stopped buying print magazines was because online news was free, all the while forgetting to realise that advertisers are the sole source of income for these online publications.

Sure, they'll give the occasional game bad scores in order to maintain the appearance of integrity (the Dungeon Keeper scenario, for example, was unavoidable, and it's known that the vast majority of paying customers for games such as Dungeon Keeper don't even bother reading reviews anyway), but on the whole, it's a given that when a reviewer reviews a game, one of the main things going through the editor's mind when he chooses to publish it or not is how it will affect their advertising revenue.

I'm not sure how anyone seriously expects a publication that is 100% funded by advertiser revenue to be the epitome of integrity.