Surprisingly, in this world of ever increasing user-pays demands on the net, the site has remained free since its inception. You can guess what's happened, right? Yep, the good parental folks at CNET have birthed a subscription service called Gamespot Complete. This isn't a gripe though! The price for full and unfettered access is reasonable - $US4.95 a month, or $US24.95 a year - and you still get a fair amount of stuff in the free version. The most interesting thing though, from a usability perspective, is that each story or link is coded with either an "open green lock" a "yellow clock" or a "locked red lock" icon, in other words "free for all", "free for seven days" and "only for members" respectively. So, if you want to continue using the site for free, you know at a glance what material you can get to and what you can't. Nice and easy and without the annoying premium content teasers employed by Salon and its ilk. So, kudos to Gamespot for a transition which could have been handled a much more restrictive and annoying fashion.
And speaking of Salon, why didn't anyone tell me about this? I dunno, you go away for a few months ...
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