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[April fools] IGN Entertainment acquires MSX Resource Center

بواسطة snout بتاريخ 28-03-2005, 23:10
المناقشة: MRC
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This post is an April Fools joke! Please read about it here

After more than 10 years of independence, growth and increasing costs the MSX Resource Center Foundation received an offer we could not refuse. After several weeks of thinking things over we decided to take the next logical, inevitable step in order to ensure the MSX Resource Center will be able to continue offering their services in the future.

The services of the MSX Resource Center will soon be brought to you by the widely known IGN Entertainment, a company which is, amongst others, responsible for such websites as Fileplanet, 3dgamers.com and Classicgaming.com. The current team of MRC admins, webmasters, translators and moderators will remain involved in the delivery of MSX contents to our visitors in the future.

The advantage of this move to the MRC Foundation (and our visitors) is that our financial situation will improve greatly, while MRC can rely on the expertise of IGN Entertainment in case of legal issues.

Due to the nature of this message and the reactions that might follow to it, IGN and MRC have decided to inform the MSX community about this press release before issuing this press release to the international media. You can find the full press release, which will be issued later this week over here.

Relevant link: IGN Entertainment acquires MSX Resource Center [press release]

التعليقات (29)

بواسطة wolf_

Ambassador_ (9950)

صورة wolf_

28-03-2005, 23:16

well, this news comes certainly out of the blue.. o_O

بواسطة chaos

Paladin (809)

صورة chaos

28-03-2005, 23:21

great news! congrats MRC Smile

بواسطة chaos

Paladin (809)

صورة chaos

28-03-2005, 23:21

or should I say.. Congrats IGN! Smile

بواسطة msd

Paragon (1471)

صورة msd

28-03-2005, 23:35

Congratiolations MRC!!!

بواسطة cax

Prophet (3737)

صورة cax

28-03-2005, 23:46

Cool, I feel like I jumped into the last carriage of the train that starts moving !

بواسطة wolf_

Ambassador_ (9950)

صورة wolf_

29-03-2005, 00:03

well, apparantely we can stop donating now, as IGN provides a good financial base! ^_____^

بواسطة spl

Paragon (1470)

صورة spl

29-03-2005, 00:34

I don't know what to say.... o_O

بواسطة PalmPal

Supporter (5)

صورة PalmPal

29-03-2005, 00:39

Please have a look at the calendar! Or are MSX people statistically really more stupid? BTW Ascii corp will launch MSX 3 simultaneously with the forthcoming MRC press release later this week. Something tells me this will be on a friday...

بواسطة Chardson

Champion (411)

صورة Chardson

29-03-2005, 00:40

I feel exactely like cax Tongue

بواسطة Arom77

Resident (63)

صورة Arom77

29-03-2005, 00:46

I feel exactly like PalmPal ! Wink

بواسطة Haze

Master (138)

صورة Haze

29-03-2005, 00:58

Wow, certainly amazing news. A step I would've never seen coming. Smile

So... when will IGN make me an offer? Tongue

بواسطة 4play

Resident (53)

صورة 4play

29-03-2005, 06:52

LoL...

ehhh yeah right... and now we have to download a 32Kb MSX file with FilePlanet and wait 52 minutes befor we can download it Smile

nice one guys.. but i'm not beleving you... (i had a WTF moment dough) Smile

بواسطة BiFi

Enlighted (4348)

صورة BiFi

29-03-2005, 07:51

Which means? you need to have a fileplanet account (or even pay for a faster one) just to be able to download MSX freeware?

@4play: check the press release date... Smile

بواسطة tfh

Prophet (3153)

صورة tfh

29-03-2005, 08:35

hehehehe.. indeed.. early April Fool's joke.
Releasing a press-release before actually giving it to the "international press"...
/me awaited the CNN report Wink

بواسطة SeD_NcL

Master (152)

صورة SeD_NcL

29-03-2005, 09:11

Indeed TFH Smile (www.msxposse.com/viewtopic.php?p=10786#10786)

بواسطة viejo_archivero

Paragon (1395)

صورة viejo_archivero

29-03-2005, 11:09

...

بواسطة KNM

Master (172)

صورة KNM

29-03-2005, 12:46

What a joke!

بواسطة SolidEric

Champion (332)

صورة SolidEric

29-03-2005, 17:47

Yeah,what a BIG joke.....what was the joke of last year on april 1st?

بواسطة BiFi

Enlighted (4348)

صورة BiFi

29-03-2005, 17:58

happy hunting in the archive Smile

بواسطة konamiman

Paragon (1172)

صورة konamiman

29-03-2005, 18:04

Damn, I could have anticipated this by posting something like "MSX Association buys the design of ObsoNET for 1M€ and they will start mass-production of the card on April 1st"...

بواسطة Grauw

Ascended (10558)

صورة Grauw

29-03-2005, 21:21

Is this really a joke? Early april fools jokes are pretty lame! Actually, I’m waiting for a reaction from one of the MRC people, but the lack of it makes me thinks it is.

If it isn’t, congratulations! IGN has been in quite an acquisition mood lately Smile. So, when will we see msx.ign.com? (that would surely be an MSX in the media event ;p). Let’s hope though that such a big-player-swallows-independant-company kind of thing doesn’t end up á la AOL vs. Netscape / Winamp / etc.

~Grauw

بواسطة BiFi

Enlighted (4348)

صورة BiFi

29-03-2005, 21:26

Like? Microsoft buying Winamp or something?

بواسطة Grauw

Ascended (10558)

صورة Grauw

29-03-2005, 21:39

AOL bought Winamp. And development has pretty much stalled, very unfortunately. Now my favorite MP3 player will never understand unicode or even *play* files with non-Latin-1 characters in the filename Sad.

AOL bought Netscape, and although they on one hand did a good job at setting up Mozilla and giving them something to start with, on the other hand they also treated the employees terribly and were co-responsible for one of the most popular browsers flushing down the drain.

AOL also bought ICQ... Dunno what happened there, last time I actually used ICQ was at least 5 years ago, because it was too heavy and bloated and ugly. But I don’t think that is a success story either. I like Trillian better now Smile.

~Grauw

بواسطة wolf_

Ambassador_ (9950)

صورة wolf_

29-03-2005, 21:47

boy, do we love AOL ^___^

بواسطة SeD_NcL

Master (152)

صورة SeD_NcL

29-03-2005, 22:25

Well it was a nice april the 1st joke Wink

بواسطة ro

Scribe (4667)

صورة ro

30-03-2005, 13:12

since Snout didn't even react one time, it sure can be consideren april fools news.. he must've been laughin' his ass of already seing us, the big dumb sheep, participate in such a brainless discussion.. whaha. half of the joke already. well nevermind. NEXT!

بواسطة wolf_

Ambassador_ (9950)

صورة wolf_

31-03-2005, 23:53

T minus 10 minutes ..

بواسطة mars2000you

Enlighted (6175)

صورة mars2000you

01-04-2005, 00:01

http://www.123greetings.com/events/april_fools_day/happy/happy2.html

بواسطة Bart

Paragon (1422)

صورة Bart

01-04-2005, 22:16

Well it was a nice april the 1st joke

@SeD_NCL: Do you really think so? At your own website you called it lame... Make up your mind, you're confusing me! Wink