Board 8 > Fandom has acquired GameSpot, GameFAQs, Giant Bomb, Metacritic, and more

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UberPyro64
10/03/22 7:50:44 AM
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https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1576897611470192641

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Steiner
10/03/22 7:53:29 AM
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hahaha what the fuck

https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

synergy!

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Steiner
10/03/22 7:54:25 AM
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but really when did the god damn wikis place get big enough to do this

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Paratroopa1
10/03/22 7:55:17 AM
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Uh, weird. Does that affect us any
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MZero
10/03/22 7:55:32 AM
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UberPyro64 posted...
GameFaqs

how dare they

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Reg
10/03/22 7:59:04 AM
#6:


Fandom has been on a large downhill trajectory for the past several years, noticable even when looking at some of their wikis with an adblocker on. We'll see if anything actually changes for this site or any of the others listed, but "Nothing changes" is the best case scenario here probably.
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Steiner
10/03/22 8:00:39 AM
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maybe i'm being dumb but if the current model for these sites was profitable enough to sustain with no changes why would they be sold? don't you sell it to make it someone else's problem

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Colegreen_c12
10/03/22 8:06:33 AM
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Steiner posted...
maybe i'm being dumb but if the current model for these sites was profitable enough to sustain with no changes why would they be sold? don't you sell it to make it someone else's problem

Say a company is making 10k a year. If you can sell it for 100k a big company might take that cause it would take 10 years to pay that off and they can reinvest the money into something they are more sure of

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HaRRicH
10/03/22 8:07:14 AM
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I also thought GameFAQs was sold recently with Red Ventures. Did I misunderstand that? Seems to be a bit of hot potato.

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MoogleKupo141
10/03/22 8:10:50 AM
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oh no

two concerns with this:

  1. Fandom wikis are basically unusable websites without an adblocker on mobile. theyre just absolutely awful with the most intrusive auto playing videos and stuff that takes up huge chunks of the screen. makes me worried that theyll fuck up these sites too
  2. these sites just got sold what like... a year and a half ago or something? and now they have to adjust to another new corporation? Giantbomb just got started on their new Dan-led era, I hope this doesnt complicate things for them too much

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Aecioo
10/03/22 8:14:40 AM
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Time for ads.

Honestly a smart decision with adblock going away for a lot of browsers next year. Yes, us smart b8 users will work around it, go to Firefox, etc. But the vast majority will start to see more ads so why not buy up more websites and throw more ads on them

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SHINE_GET_64
10/03/22 8:34:18 AM
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https://twitter.com/GreatBriTom/status/1576906447048544260

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MoogleKupo141
10/03/22 8:38:34 AM
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lol was just about to post that tweet too

thats a bit of a relief. Maybe it wont be so bad.

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JonThePenguin
10/03/22 8:44:13 AM
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MoogleKupo141 posted...
lol was just about to post that tweet too

thats a bit of a relief. Maybe it wont be so bad.
Ill believe it when I see it. Or dont as the case may be.

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AriaOfBolo
10/03/22 8:53:45 AM
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eesh, fandom is miserable, that could be enough to drive off even me

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WazzupGenius00
10/03/22 8:54:52 AM
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Imagine the ads and embedded videos all over the Giant Bomb wiki

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TeamRocketElite
10/03/22 9:05:35 AM
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GameFAQs already has autoplaying video ads with sound. How much worse could it get?

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Malenia
10/03/22 10:45:45 AM
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gamefaqs probably worth $10
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Leonhart4
10/03/22 10:48:21 AM
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I guess this means we can expect the "when's the next contest" cycle to start all over

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Crescent-Moon
10/03/22 10:59:24 AM
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When's the next contest

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MZero
10/03/22 11:01:15 AM
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we damn the want bracket

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redrocket
10/03/22 11:08:32 AM
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Aecioo posted...
Honestly a smart decision with adblock going away for a lot of browsers next year.

Wait, what is this???

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BlueCrystalTear
10/03/22 11:12:02 AM
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I'm hoping this - if true - is good news for contests to happen and Allen to actually get some relief. But Fandom is a large reason I run an ad blocker. If I didn't have an ad blocker, I would use the Internet far less.

Aecioo posted...
Time for ads.

Honestly a smart decision with adblock going away for a lot of browsers next year. Yes, us smart b8 users will work around it, go to Firefox, etc. But the vast majority will start to see more ads so why not buy up more websites and throw more ads on them
I already use Firefox and uBlock Origin and if that doesn't work anymore due to companies being anti-consumer, you may see considerably less of me.

Also my instinct if a website starts playing audio without my permission is still to exit the tab. Thank goodness for uBlock - I get no malware that way, too.

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Ngamer
10/03/22 11:13:01 AM
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Wait, so the B8 Wiki now... owns B8?

@Zachnorn how could you?!


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masterplum
10/03/22 11:13:41 AM
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I recently saw a GameStop headline that the new monkey island was on sale already.

The article said that a 3rd party site sold discounted copies for lots of games and you should use it for monkey island

Complete trash journalism. They deserve to be scalped

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redrocket
10/03/22 11:15:58 AM
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Also

https://youtu.be/KpPE85Jogjw

Whoever is in charge of Fandom saw this movie and unironically thought this was a great idea.

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MMXcalibur
10/03/22 11:28:28 AM
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Oh no, not Game EFF AY KEWS!

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BlueCrystalTear
10/03/22 11:29:30 AM
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masterplum posted...
I recently saw a GameStop headline that the new monkey island was on sale already.

The article said that a 3rd party site sold discounted copies for lots of games and you should use it for monkey island

Complete trash journalism. They deserve to be scalped
That's half of the site's "news." It's been that way since COVID hit, and was already on that trajectory before the pandemic. Sometimes I see a clickbait headline and Google it so somebody who wrote an actually decent headline gets the clicks.

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Peace___Frog
10/03/22 11:32:27 AM
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Ngamer posted...
Wait, so the B8 Wiki now... owns B8?

@Zachnorn how could you?!
Destiny

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-hotdogturtle--
10/03/22 11:34:12 AM
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How did this site get so small that it was able to be acquired by that piece of garbage?

Not only does nobody like Fandom, but I was under the impression that nobody actually used it due to how terrible it was.

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paperwarior
10/03/22 11:43:23 AM
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I was hoping it would be Fextralife

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abdou
10/03/22 11:45:04 AM
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how many times will GameFAQs get sold? this is sad.
I wonder if CJayC still cares about this site and what's happening to it


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Dark_Silvergun
10/03/22 12:11:49 PM
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So, this explains the ads between every 10 to 15 comments in each topic post then? I guess so.

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Metal_DK
10/03/22 12:17:54 PM
#34:


mergers never benefit the consumer

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-hotdogturtle--
10/03/22 12:18:30 PM
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How bad did Red Ventures flop if they sold the site in such a short amount of time?

(I thought it was a year but apparently it's been 2 years already)

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paperwarior
10/03/22 12:28:18 PM
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Metal_DK posted...
mergers never benefit the consumer
That's not the goal of mergers.

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Metal_DK
10/03/22 12:37:18 PM
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never said it was, just sayin it sucks for us

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Kenri
10/03/22 12:39:50 PM
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Probably more revealing about me than anything but I definitely read this as GameFAQs being acquired by Femdom

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LiquidOshawott
10/03/22 12:40:25 PM
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Dark_Silvergun posted...
So, this explains the ads between every 10 to 15 comments in each topic post then? I guess so.

This was before the sale, and its not finalized IIRC

Kinda weird but fandom seems like it makes crazy money off of wiki association and ad revenue. Crazy smart

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TheRock1525
10/03/22 12:42:25 PM
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Kenri posted...
Probably more revealing about me than anything but I definitely read this as GameFAQs being acquired by Femdom

That would certainly be a better outcome.

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FL81
10/03/22 12:42:56 PM
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Dark_Silvergun posted...
So, this explains the ads between every 10 to 15 comments in each topic post then? I guess so.
If you haven't started blocking ads by now, I would suggest starting soon.

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MacArrowny
10/03/22 12:43:15 PM
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redrocket posted...
Aecioo posted...

Wait, what is this???
Chrome and Chromium-based browsers will be restricting adblocking extensions next year. We don't know the full extent of the effects this will have yet.

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azuarc
10/03/22 12:56:00 PM
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redrocket posted...
Aecioo posted...

Wait, what is this???

Google is upgrading Chrome, and thereby all Chrome-related browsers to a new protocol in the upcoming months that is allegedly for the sake of security, but has the added advantage of disabling the way that most adblockers work. Considering Google makes billions each year via ad revenue, it's not hard to see why they're doing this. And the overwhelming majority of other browsers use Chrome as a shell, so about the only browser that won't be affected by this is Firefox. Within a year, basically everyone else will likely have non-functioning adblockers.

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Steiner
10/03/22 1:00:46 PM
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Kenri posted...
Probably more revealing about me than anything but I definitely read this as GameFAQs being acquired by Femdom



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mnk
10/03/22 1:17:06 PM
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I wonder how many more years GameFAQs has left in it before one of these bigger companies pulls the cord on it.

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Leonhart4
10/03/22 1:17:57 PM
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Huh, sounds like I might be going back to Firefox

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-hotdogturtle--
10/03/22 1:18:38 PM
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What browsers other than Firefox or Chrome do anyone use?

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redrocket
10/03/22 1:26:19 PM
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-hotdogturtle-- posted...
What browsers other than Firefox or Chrome do anyone use?

Unironically using Safari right now, lol.

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JonThePenguin
10/03/22 1:30:57 PM
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On iPhone even if you download another browser it's still Safari-based so on mobile that; on PC I mostly use Edge ever since they switched it to being Chromium-based.

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Thorn
10/03/22 1:37:25 PM
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Sticking with Firefox this whole time vindicated once again.

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