What happened to IGN Africa?

StaggerLee

StaggerLee

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Did I miss something, or has IGN Africa (za.ign.com) suddenly stop posting content of any kind?

The most recent content of theirs that I can see was posted a little over three weeks ago. This is on their main site, their twitter page and their facebook page. What's going on? Does everyone else know something that I don't? Does anyone care?
 
czc said:
Didn't even know they existed.
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They've been around since October 2013 and I have checked them periodically, but lately there have been no updates and no information as to why there are no updates. Do any of the industry insiders like [MENTION=289]Jan[/MENTION] have any idea?
 
never cared since i always just go to the uk or us site as the SA one is always delayed with its news
 
StaggerLee said:
They've been around since October 2013 and I have checked them periodically, but lately there have been no updates and no information as to why there are no updates. Do any of the industry insiders like [MENTION=289]Jan[/MENTION] have any idea?
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Yup! We've just put up an article about it.
 
That dispute, eish, didn't they have a contract detailing how payments would happen?
 
Wow that was real quick from MyGaming....thanks for the official update.

It's sad to see such a dispute coming in the way of the website.
 
czc said:
That dispute, eish, didn't they have a contract detailing how payments would happen?
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I bet they did, but I'm sure that the ZAR freefall wasn't predicted when the contract was drawn up. I imagine it went something like this:

IGN International: "IGN Africa, your license fees are due"
IGN Africa: "Please give us a discount on licensing this year, our currency is in the toilet"
IGN Internation: "No"
IGN Africa: "Pretty please"
IGN International: "No, and if you don't pay us now, you may not continue to publish under our name"
IGN Africa: "Pretty pretty please"
IGN International: "..."
 
This thread and the fact that we've got no power at home really makes me want to emigrate. My wife was so against emigration but after the last couple of months even she is thinking that we should maybe just go.
 
StaggerLee said:
I bet they did, but I'm sure that the ZAR freefall wasn't predicted when the contract was drawn up. I imagine it went something like this:

IGN International: "IGN Africa, your license fees are due"
IGN Africa: "Please give us a discount on licensing this year, our currency is in the toilet"
IGN Internation: "No"
IGN Africa: "Pretty please"
IGN International: "No, and if you don't pay us now, you may not continue to publish under our name"
IGN Africa: "Pretty pretty please"
IGN International: "..."
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Yeah, that ZAR thing nearly hit us as well.
 
Solitude said:
This thread and the fact that we've got no power at home really makes me want to emigrate. My wife was so against emigration but after the last couple of months even she is thinking that we should maybe just go.
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Dude, try staying in Witbank. I've had more days with no electricity in the last year and a half than all my other 29 years totaled up. Then we have shit water as well, dirty air, and worst of all, I have to live in Witbank. But emigrate?! Fuck that!
 
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Dude, try staying in Witbank. I've had more days with no electricity in the last year and a half than all my other 29 years totaled up. Then we have shit water as well, dirty air, and worst of all, I have to live in Witbank. But emigrate?! Fuck that!
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I don't know how you do it. I'd most definitely not want to live in Witbank. Maybe I should try the Cape. It looks like it's going better there than here.

But then I can actually get a VR headset in New Zealand. Plus there's no politicians messing with the rugby. I'll have electricity and good internet. I won't struggle to renew my license. The only sucky thing is starting anew. I don't know if I have the energy for that at this point.
 
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