Those people are just idiots.Lynx said:Some people there already hold the theory that Derek Smart causes all the problems because he was quite pissed off about the stuff people wrote about him.
If Gamespy/IGN was losing money during downtime, any problems would get fixed very quickly. The bandwidth cost for the free sites must be about equal to the ad revenue, with so small a margin that spending work hours on maintenance would put the balance in the red. I think you can expect to see some change in hosted site policy soon, because this scenario doesn't make sense from a business standpoint.But I believe that gamespy just sucks. There were no problems whatsoever when it was only hosted by IGN, but since IGN and gamespy joined there was no end of trouble. First crashes on monthly bases, then weekly, and now on a 2 day basis. I wonder why they don't fix the problem. I bet they loose loads of money because of that(HLP is not the only site that's affected IIRC)