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Originally posted by Suzuki_Fanboy

When you guys say that all these major sites have gone pay, which ones are you talking about?

I don't go to a lot of gaming sites other than IGN, so I was just wondering what kinds of sites you're talking about...and if you could give me a link so I could see what they're like

Suzuki, the greatest part of gaming netwoks bought all the free sites there were around. This is for several reasons:
- To buy advertising services for less and earn more thanks to the fact they can count on the revenue of all the sites of the network

- To limit any kind of opposition, coming from smaller sites like this one and be able to increase number of visitors.

I won't post names of dead sites, but there were many more till last year, trust me. Just to mention one, do you remeber TheGIA?It's closed, after years and years of activity. A big site can't work if there's lack of resources, even if the site is really popular. The networks are sucking all the available resources. The result is that sites outside the networks are not active anymore, and if they are, they're in big troubles. There are few sites that are still working without being part of a network. We are one of these sites. You all know the names of the active networks around the web, I think. You mentioned IGN, there are few other big networks like IGN and they're buying all the smaller sites for the reasons I mentioned above.