IGN really has a way with websites, touch it to spoil it kinda way
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IGN bAd!
But for real, why the hateboner for them? What are they doing wrong then? I'm no fan of them either, but in the past 4 years, after multiple investigations into their public details and materials, most accusations they've received had been total heresay or just flat out lies that had been spread around. So I'd be down to hear what you've found and to perhaps get a solid answer as to why they're genuinely spoiling or ruining things.
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I wasn't in mood to debate when I woke up this morning
I'll just copy paste a comment which describes my general feelings.. Also maybe later I'll elaborate on the acquisition of humble bundle
-They have no ethics. They had an employee be part of Mass Effect 3, they plastered it all over their pages, they gave it a phenomenal review, and then when gamers had serious problems with it, problems they should've noted in their review, they started attacking gamers as "Entitled" and shilling ME3 like mad. Conflicts of interest left and right, and instead of being adults and owning it, they tried to shout gamers into obedience.
-They have no ethics. Their pages are more like giant billboards for the games they're "Reviewing" rather than webpages. I can't take a site seriously when it looks like a Publisher's page covered with ads and then they claim to have an objective review? I wouldn't accept a guy standing in a McDonalds uniform telling me that McDonald's is the best food ever as objective, and I won't accept it in video games either.
-They either have no ethics or no idea how a review scale works. Anything by a Publishers is at least an 8/10 there no matter how bad it is from what I've seen. If you go to Metacritic and look at their review history they hand out 9's and 10's at a obscene rate, and even Metacritic notes that their average score is higher than the Industry 60% of the time and "Same as the average critic" just 7% of the time. But at the same time some good games are rated for their game play in such an obscene manner that it makes me laugh
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I wasn't in mood to debate when I woke up this morning
Good thing this isn't a "debate". I'm just asking why you think something.
They have no ethics. They had an employee be part of Mass Effect 3, they plastered it all over their pages, they gave it a phenomenal review, and then when gamers had serious problems with it, problems they should've noted in their review, they started attacking gamers as "Entitled" and shilling ME3 like mad. Conflicts of interest left and right, and instead of being adults and owning it, they tried to shout gamers into obedience.
Yup, it was a weird one. Also, overall pretty bad from the top down. So my quick question is... you know the workstructure/hierarchy in IGN, right? Meaning, they employees aren't dependent on each other and even ex-employees have said that there isn't too much pressure from the higher ups. The pressure comes from them having to review a lot of games, not from how they review them. But alright, it's fishy for sure.
Though, again, I'm actually interested why IGN owning a website makes the website immediately bad.
They have no ethics. Their pages are more like giant billboards for the games they're "Reviewing" rather than webpages. I can't take a site seriously when it looks like a Publisher's page covered with ads and then they claim to have an objective review? I wouldn't accept a guy standing in a McDonalds uniform telling me that McDonald's is the best food ever as objective, and I won't accept it in video games either.
I'm guessing you're going with an overarching theme of "no ethics", which doesn't mean squat with website acquisitions.
Their writing staff don't have any contact with the marketing and financial portions of Ziff Davis or IGN itself. If you'd do an ounce of research into how they operate, you'd know that. Mind you, this has been an issue before with Gamespot, but I'd like to see some evidence, not theories about what you might be thinking is maybe a half-truth or even a full truth. This means little. You can easily say that Steamgifts lets its moderators and admins to join giveaways, so there's a conflict of interest. There's no proof and everyone who's worked with or for IGN argues against this point.
At least this could to some extent change the way a website is run. Of course, that's still a conspiracy theory but at least on the publication side of things, it might give pressure towards the writing staff for games that are published by Humble for example. It wasn't your point, but I'll give you a freebie here.
But then again, neither my or your point gives any reason as to why it would make D2D worse.
They either have no ethics or no idea how a review scale works. Anything by a Publishers is at least an 8/10 there no matter how bad it is from what I've seen. If you go to Metacritic and look at their review history they hand out 9's and 10's at a obscene rate, and even Metacritic notes that their average score is higher than the Industry 60% of the time and "Same as the average critic" just 7% of the time. But at the same time some good games are rated for their game play in such an obscene manner that it makes me laugh
Overinflation of scores? Really? So overinflation of scores makes D2D worse inherently? What?
Okay, so we have an issue here. You obviously never read my question and are instead just saying why you think IGN's writing staff aren't up to snuff. How's that related? You're just derailing the conversation here. 3 times, actually.
But alright, this isn't too difficult to answer. IGN overinflates its reviews. Simple, done. How's that a bad thing? When you read reviews, do you not think about who's reviewing it or something? If all numbers are the same to you, then there's a different problem here. Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb are great examples of reviews being skewed. Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic have issues with extremes. A movie will usually have a relatively terrible score or a relatively great score. Scores like 60-70 are rare percentage wise to the actual landscape of film. IMDb has an issue with overinflating scores. Movies that are below average will still receive a score of 5-7. But that's the thing. That's how reviews go there. You don't go to IMDb and judge it the score the exact same way as you would with Metacritic. With movie reviewing, it's like comparing Roger Ebert to Adam Johnston (YMS) or some shit.
The point is that everyone reviews things differently. Some will overinflate, some will lower their scores for no reason. Some will give higher scores to puzzle games, some will trash RTS games. Know your reviewer and know your publication. This is the dumbest argument you can make against IGN. All you're doing is showing that you don't have critical thinking. I doubt you actually believe this argument of course. I'm guessing you're just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. It isn't hard to debunk these arguments because the answers are out there. You've taken the classic arguments against IGN from some source (Youtube, Reddit, maybe even SG) and you've basically copy/pasted them here without thinking or checking them.
I mean, feel free to not add those Humble cases. You're obviously not actually someone who put in a lot of thought about these things and you're basically just Googling for negative points about them. Been there, done that.
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IGN sold D2D in 2011 to GameFly tho. Then they got rid of it themselves and some random company AtGames picked it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct2Drive
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Bought it myself in the morning, after ITAD had notified me about it, just to stumble upon the weird code format. I sent an email to their support, but haven't received an answer yet.
The order might also get cancelled, seems to be rather a price glitch instead of an intended deal.
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Ordered the game too and also got an invalid key. Here's the reply I got to my support request (looks automated though):
We understand that you are having trouble activating your legacy purchases from D2D (IGN) and GameFly and apologize for the service disruption due to the business transition of our solution partners.
Please be assured that we are currently working as quickly as possible to get the activation servers available to you and will inform you when your games can be activated again.
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they either cancel it, give new key or i go to paypal and cancel transaction
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If those X-es consist of digits 0-9 and letters between A-F only, the entire thing seems to be a UUID/GUID (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#Format), and certainly does not work as key. Handing them out is most likely a result of some bug.
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Tried to buy Yakuza 0 but paypal reversed my payment.
Dear xxxxxx,
Unfortunately, this transaction has been declined after we found a risk associated with your payment. We are therefore not able to complete this particular transaction.
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It probably has Yakuza in item name. That's why. Clearly you're trying to pay criminal organization.
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Are you sure Paypal is the one who did that? I've done lots of crazy shit with Paypal, buying from strange proxies around the world, and the worst I got was SMS codes (very common) and forced password resets a few days later (pretty rare, 2 or 3 times total), but in all cases the payment went through.
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I guess since it was Paypal who sent the email about the transaction being reversed. But looks like madjoki gave explanation already.
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Oh, fun story ^^ Kind of creepy too though, they're really overreacting to simple words, as if criminals would bust themselves by using incriminating words in their transactions... On a side note, I heard a similar story about banks and someone who put something like "ISIS" as a joke in a bank wire comment. Hurray for mass surveillance :s
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I did that with "Funding for terrorism against fat (Fitbit scale, not ISIS)" when I bought one from a friend. They returned the money to me after a week of investigating this serious threat. So not only are they just automatically reacting to keywords, there are no humans at either bank reading anything while they "investigate".
Another guy got in news here when he sent his father money and put Isi (daddy in Finnish) as the name.
Good thing serious criminals like us sending small sums get caught right away while the banks have no problems laundering hundreds of billions all the time for their corporate customers.
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they have many paypal dispute opened . paypal block sell on store in a preventive manner in this case.
also one open dispute cost 16 $ ... very good ..LOL
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i get bad key for valkyria 4 .
we'll see if they replace
nothing ventured nothing gained :(
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Could it be a serial key for GameFly?
https://support.direct2drive.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1744312-how-to-re-activate-your-gamefly-activated-game-on-direct2drive
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is it not steamworks? https://store.valkyria.sega.com/eu#/cart
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I got an email from ITAD and immediately jumped on it, without looking in to how shady direct2drive are.
Needless to say, I got a key in a totally non steam format key. So. That's a bummer.
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Some news. Everyone will get a refund.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GameDealsMeta/comments/aqw4dd/direct2drive_valkyria_chronicles_4_invalid_key/egkacxv
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well ... it's ok i tried like tons of people we don't win but we don't loose too ...
funny to see some whinger want a replacement key ... i'm sure they know the price glitch and want to have the best of both worlds ...
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sure but it's loose we wiil just have a refund , nice try . Whining on the reddit thread like some people are useless . Everyone knows it's a price glitch with low chance to be honored .
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Hello,
We apologize for the technical glitch today which resulted in erroneous pricing and key delivery. We are working to correct these issues. We are looking into issuing refunds for all glitched purchases from our Sega promotion. Please stay tuned for more updates. We’ve also confirmed that only Sega titles are affected.
Thanks again for your patience. We are working hard to make this right.
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Most important stuff first: https://www.direct2drive.com/#!/download-valkyria-chronicles-4-/5013779
The flaw: The key I got is invalid.
The only reason why I still mention this is because direct2drive is (or used to be) a legit store. So who knows, they might be replacing the key with a valid one and in that case you'd get a great game for a great price. If not you should get your money back and it was worth trying.
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