Comments on: Trouble Amidst The Gold Fields?

By: Loredena

Loredena — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:57:52 +0000

Computer Games is my favorite by far of the three pc-centric gaming magazines, so I’d be just as glad to see that back cover go away. I can’t really blame them though for not refusing it — of the three, they skate closest to the edge financially so far as I can tell, I’ve often worried they would finally just not be able to make it any longer.

By: razor

razor — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:33:10 +0000

IGE has been on the back cover of Computer Games for 22 months. http://razorwire.warcry.com/news/view/67575-CGMs-back-cover-isnt-IGEs-for-first-time-since-March-2005

And it only cost them $20,700 dollars total for that advertising. They made that back during the time it took me to make this post.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:03:26 +0000

So, what were Brock Pierce’s thoughts on underaged children?

By: Matt Mihaly

Matt Mihaly — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:53:26 +0000

I can’t comment on how accurate most of that is, but I’ve had dinner with Brock Pierce, IGE’s founder and CEO, and the impression I came away with was that he’s a sharp guy with a fairly deep understanding of virtual worlds as a business.

Also….did you REALLY just re-post a month-old anonymous blog comment??

By: Andrew Crystall

Andrew Crystall — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:10:46 +0000

Or who can’t be arsed jumping through all the boring hoops to get to the actually FUN parts of games. Never mind J, you’ll make it to the 21st century one day.

Some of us have these job things these days…

RMT companies will rise and fall. As noted, Yantis is back doing his own thing. It’s not a downturn for anyone except IGE themselves.

By: J.

J. — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:51:00 +0000

Buying the back page of Computer Games for nearly a year can’t have come cheap. What, desperate feeding frenzy in a company whose entire business model is based on the tragicomic state of players who can’t stand to play MMOs the way they were intended but can’t stand to quit?

Hilarious.