ads on ign.com

[Graham]

I'm not one to click on ads, however, when viewing xbox360.ign.com today, I accidentally clicked on a 'direct2drive.com' ad.

What caught me off guard was that I was taken to a page selling an R18 anime porn collection dvd. Not exactly what I expected.

Is this sort of thing normal? are we really seeing porn ads on mainstream sites now?



this was the link. Odly it comes from de.ign.com.
here is a pic:

 

[StefanS]

I'm not one to click on ads, however, when viewing xbox360.ign.com today, I accidentally clicked on a 'direct2drive.com' ad.

What caught me off guard was that I was taken to a page selling an R18 anime porn collection dvd. Not exactly what I expected.

Well, the algorithms of D2D identified you as the target group for anime porn. Did it feature tentacles?

 

[Hanners]

here is a pic:

No anime porn in the pic though. Frankly, I'm disappointed.

 

[Guden Oden]

Well, you know, IGN is run by a bunch of moneygrubbing bastards. I'm sure near half the bytes they spew out belong to ads in one form or another, it was years since I was able to visit any of those sites regularly. Doesn't really surprise me they're indirectly selling porn if they can make money off of it, though it does surprise me a little that the ad for 'great games' links to a porn dvd.

Seems likely to attract lawsuits if nothing else.

 

[L233]

Well, you know, IGN is run by a bunch of moneygrubbing bastards.

IGN is part of Ruper Murdoch's NewsCorp... bought it for $700 million.

 

[Fox5]

IGN is part of Ruper Murdoch's NewsCorp... bought it for $700 million.

Wow, kind of interesting it was bought for more than most game companies are worth. To think, Microsoft bought rare for $300 million, it's cheaper to own the games than the news about them.

Oh, and I hate IGN's website, it crashes my wireless router nearly everytime I go there and I have to reboot it. Not sure why it does, since AIM packets will still go through, just I can't get to webpages afterwards.

And that girls of anime stuff sometimes does have an actual ad on ign (and frequently does on fileplanet). For some reason, they pimp it very big, I guess they found their Girls of Games issue with Playboy was successful. Anyhow, IGN probalby just advertises it so much since I think it's one of the few pieces of content D2D sells that IGN made, or at least I think they made it. Maybe it's just profitable and hits with IGN's target market.

 

[rwolf]

I guess kids need help getting to the p0rn sites.

 

[Guden Oden]

Well, isn't there an IGNGuys subsite or somesuch with lame shit like cars and pics of half-naked babes on it?

When I said IGN was run by a bunch of moneygrubbers btw I wasn't even thinking of that they'd been bought by News Corp. Rather, I'm thinking of Matt, and his delicate way of denouncing all his loyal followship of readers (people that helped get the company sold for $700M I might add) as leechers. This he did on a Nintendo subsite letters page a while after they started with that insider crap and someone wrote in to criticize it.

That was pretty much when I quit going there. That attitude, and the fact the non-insider site was rather gimped initially, plus the design started sucking majorly. Much too busy and cluttered, too much graphics everywhere. IGN these days is a case study in how NOT to design a good and easy to use/read website...

 

[nintenho]

Well, isn't there an IGNGuys subsite or somesuch with lame shit like cars and pics of half-naked babes on it?

When I said IGN was run by a bunch of moneygrubbers btw I wasn't even thinking of that they'd been bought by News Corp. Rather, I'm thinking of Matt, and his delicate way of denouncing all his loyal followship of readers (people that helped get the company sold for $700M I might add) as leechers. This he did on a Nintendo subsite letters page a while after they started with that insider crap and someone wrote in to criticize it.

That was pretty much when I quit going there. That attitude, and the fact the non-insider site was rather gimped initially, plus the design started sucking majorly. Much too busy and cluttered, too much graphics everywhere. IGN these days is a case study in how NOT to design a good and easy to use/read website...

Oh common, it's not espn.com bad.

I only ever went there for media and now I just go to gametrailers if there is anything big. Games these days just aren't exciting. Maybe IGN will mature in a few years and maybe developers will get back to trying.