Why do people hate on IGN?

I dislike that amount of ad's that are up there.  But I don't hate them for it, just not my favorite.

for me, it all started when they gave God Hand 3.0 out of 10. I never took their reviews seriously after that

Who has hate?
 
I'd like some examples/proof before you start putting words in "people's" mouths.

Anybody remember their Christmas game TV special thing? That's why.

Well for me, it started about here:
 

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personally i think gamespot is ten times better than ign. 
it actually is.

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No!!! i had mange to bury that memory of that ever being said. Now it all just came back man, I cant shake the embarrassment it wont go away No!!!!!!!!!!!!.  On a side note, I never really seen hate for Ign i enjoy their site even if its a little ad heavy. "

nerds.

don't care.
 
 
there new website design annoys me tho.  I was looking for their GOTY stuff and couldn't find it anywhere on their homepage.  I eventually found it in the "related videos" area after watching a trailer for a game.

Because it's a big corporate entity, I'm so tired of mass-market bullshit that tries to cover everything under the Sun but pretends to be a few people reviewing games.  I grew tired of wading through reviews of random TV episodes, top 40 albums, and the latest horribly elitist movie reviews just to see what they gave a game.  It was the same reason I stopped going to Gamespot, UGO, DailyRadar, and Gametrailers.  It's why Giant Bomb is so cool, it IS a group of dudes playing games and talking about them.  The Quick Look is the perfect way to show games off and makes the old corporate "Preview" look like nothing more than the paid advertisement it was.
 
I also really started to hate on IGN when they started using that cunt Chobot as their mouthpiece, pandering to the stereotypical neckbeard virgin that beats-off to the gamerchix and thinks Morgan Webb is single and actually plays games.  It's insulting to the game playing community and proves they are still in the old days of thinking, even though they've been covering this shit for years.

EPIC FOR THE WIN!!! haha that's pretty bad, but IGN is fine for previews but otherwise are kind of soul less.  I do appreciate the early look and everything they get and I go there quite a bit, but I don't put that much stock in anything because I don't have the same sort of connection as say, Giantbomb.
 
 Also, the new website sucks balls, so hard to find anything.

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 I dont have anything against them, but there site is a bit ugly and everything looks like its thrown all over the place.   
I cant stand spending more then a few seconds looking at it, no idea why. 
 
 
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They really disrespect their fans, I'm not into the structure of their reviews at all, and they show off Jessica Chobot like shes really hot or something. Guys, if you think shes the hottest thing ever you don't get out much.

To many ads make it way to cluttered for me. That site is way to busy.

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I don't really hate them but here are a few reasons why I dislike them:
 

• The site is very ad-heavy. They even have those ads they call eyeblaster ads, which basically replace the whole site with a flash ad and completely make the site unusable.
• I don't know how the PS3 and 360 game reviewers are but for the Wii they can be very biased with or against a game. Like how The Conduit got a 8.6 and MW Reflex got a 7 or something. I just really hate that Matt guy.
  
• Podcasts are rarely entertaining for me.
• They post way too many Top 100 or Top 10 lists just to gain hits.
• They know that sex sells and they aren't afraid to use it all the time all over the site. Seriously I'm getting kinda tired of seeing Jessica Chobot in absolutely every video feature they produce.
  

I guess IGN just seems dauntingly huge and commercial at this point (which it is I suppose). 
 
I still like IGN a lot and I check out the site almost every day, but the reason I visit Giantbomb more than IGN is because the Giantbomb staff reaches out to the community more so than any other site. When I think of Giantbomb I think of Jeff, Ryan, Brad, Vinny, Dave, and Drew. When I think of IGN I think of some mechanical corporate entity.

I think they've been pretty shit ever since they parted with the best videogame journalist ever, fellow Brit Julian Rignall who started them up as Editorial Director in the mid 90's. He put them on the right track and gave them a unique identity as games site, but it's one that has slowly but surely been ebbing away since he left. The site is now far removed from the site he created.

I cant think of a better reason than this:
 

" for me, it all started when they gave God Hand 3.0 out of 10. I never took their reviews seriously after that "

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I don't hate them they have just as valid opinions as Giantbomb or any other game site has. Though i fucking hate gamer blogs,  they are the trash of the internet.

There is virtually no quality in their writing.
 
That is the beginning and end for me.

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I haven't used their site much but as I've been looking recently for a replacement podcast for Idle Thumbs (RIP) I've heard loads of the IGN ones and while nothing like Idle Thumbs I enjoy the three red lights podcast. Those videos posted above are cringeworthy though. When it comes to reviews and such I use the aggregators instead of relying on one specific site, I've never encountered someone who can reliably recommend to my taste so an average works out better.

Jessica Robot :)

" personally i think gamespot is ten times better than ign.  it actually is. "

IGN is great, solely for the reason that they have no problems taking reader comments/reactions and blatantly calling them stupid and childish.
 
Really though... I don't think IGN is that bad.  I think a lot of their problems stemmed from having their editors dedicated to single platforms, which gave them an unnecessary bias when reviewing games.  Luckily, Hilary Goldstein changed their staff structure since he became EIC.  While they do just publish press releases (freakin' lazy way to relay news to their readers), there recently has been a bigger push for more feature articles.  Most of them aren't that great ('Trophies are better than Achievements' and 'Trophies and Achievements are both stupid' being prime examples), but their new article on when satisfactory game design is not satisfactory anymore was a fun read.

Gamescoop s funny but the community is awful and the reviews tend to be pretty bad.

" I don't really hate them but here are a few reasons why I dislike them:
 

• The site is very ad-heavy. They even have those ads they call eyeblaster ads, which basically replace the whole site with a flash ad and completely make the site unusable.
• I don't know how the PS3 and 360 game reviewers are but for the Wii they can be very biased with or against a game. Like how The Conduit got a 8.6 and MW Reflex got a 7 or something. I just really hate that Matt guy.
  
• Podcasts are rarely entertaining for me.
• They post way too many Top 100 or Top 10 lists just to gain hits.
• They know that sex sells and they aren't afraid to use it all the time all over the site. Seriously I'm getting kinda tired of seeing Jessica Chobot in absolutely every video feature they produce.
  

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Well I don't hate IGN. I think their Three Red Lights and Game Scoop! podcasts are great, especially when Hilary is on.

They try too hard. And they're business practices remind me of post catastrophe Gamespot. They're BUSINESS practices only, i love some of the guys there.

That was epic!

I also might be stopping in now to see their new Quick Look ripoff, if they tend to QL different games than GB on a regular basis. The commentary won't be up to snuff (streaming questions from the IGN community, what are they thinking?) but I'm fond of the concept, so the more people who do that the better.

They gave God Hand a 3, they don't know what fun is.

That specific review and the petty way the 'reviewer' handled his feedback, literally saying in the same breath "its just one guy's opinion" then lying and saying "everyone in the office felt the same way" when really nobody else even knew about the game (according to another person in the office) kind of sealed the deal on that site's integrity. So they're like children. I can laugh at children, that's why I like their podcast, I just don't listen to children.

" Because it's a big corporate entity, I'm so tired of mass-market bullshit that tries to cover everything under the Sun but pretends to be a few people reviewing games.  I grew tired of wading through reviews of random TV episodes, top 40 albums, and the latest horribly elitist movie reviews just to see what they gave a game.  It was the same reason I stopped going to Gamespot, UGO, DailyRadar, and Gametrailers.  It's why Giant Bomb is so cool, it IS a group of dudes playing games and talking about them.  The Quick Look is the perfect way to show games off and makes the old corporate "Preview" look like nothing more than the paid advertisement it was. I also really started to hate on IGN when they started using that cunt Chobot as their mouthpiece, pandering to the stereotypical neckbeard virgin that beats-off to the gamerchix and thinks Morgan Webb is single and actually plays games.  It's insulting to the game playing community and proves they are still in the old days of thinking, even though they've been covering this shit for years. "