Amen.

sigh...

They're not just advertising the game, they're advertising Adidas as well! :D

We've had skin layout changes before dude. Just because we're being sponsored, we're not selling out. We're not giving Deca Sports 11/10 just because of this and that will never happen. I'll be the first one to leave if that ever happens.

We like to eat and poop in our own toilets Bahamut. Do you not want us to eat and poop in our own toilets?

Also, we have LESS ads in this layout change than before. Adwords have always been a part of Dtoid for awhile now. They only come into effect with week old stories though.

Lame excuse is lame. And when you have the Dtoid mascot wearing a sports headband, with Deca Sports plastered all over, yes I'm afraid, that is selling out. Review scores have shit to do with it. IMHO.

But... he's got a fucking sweat band.

Aside from the insane yellow color..it's all good. Ya gotta pay the bills and the content hasn't changed.

Which means no big deal.

*sigh* i agree with shade... i usually dont mind the layout ad thingies, but this deca sports layout kills my eyes and generall just sucks

Amen.

What the hell are cockels?

dude, come off it.

I don't work for the site or anything but seriously. Come on.

D-Toid and Hudson have had connections for a while now.

Further, websites don't run themselves. If having a reskin allows the site to continue to run their crazy contests, not to mention keep the lights on, that's fine.

People talk a wonderful good game about not sellingout, not doing shit for "the machine" and all that wonderful buzzword rebel shit, but pull your heads out of your own ass for a minute. A corporation is nothing but some mom and pop organization that got their shit together and started being successful on a huge scale. So by that rationale, if D-Toid gets too successful, its clearly got to go to shit?

Just come off that inane bullshit. The reskin's a decent enough temp change, Deca Sports is what it is, no one's bought a fucking review score and you still are part of one of the best blog/community sites for video games.

I mean really. You're at once like "I love you guys", but also calling those same people out for a "cash grab", when that very same business partnership yieled the Destructoid bot appearing in Bomberman and a few great moments of close interaction with Hudson (See the visit to Hudson that Niero did, as well as the interview with RetroForceGO). That's pretty damn rude. Like hanging out at somebody's house, taking a sheet of their stationary and writing "fuck you" on a note to them while you're munchin' on their finely laid out tea cookies. What the shit?

Pardon my venom, but bitching about a business partnership that yielded some cool shit for the site as "selling out" seems real fuckin' childish to me.

Like I mentioned in my cblog last night, the color scheme is horrible. I mean, Dtoid started off with a harsh color scheme in the old days, and I'm not going to begrudge them for that. It's just that this one is unnecessary.

As for the "cash grab," I don't mind these kind of site skinnings, since they're always tied to some big giveaway. However, I think it's hard for people to tolerate them for some piece of shit like Deca Sports. I realize Dtoid has to get money somewhere and that you're buddy-buddy with Hudson, and I like them too. However, how did no one along the way realize that no one cares about Deca Sports? If you're going to skin the site, please at least make sure people are getting something more than demo discs for a Wii Sports knock-off with horrible art design.

Beyond that, the site redesign (minus colors) does look good, and the rest of the ad system seems fine.

You're just drunk :P

Where's John Wayne Gacy when you need him?

Whatever pays the bills and keeps D-toid running, I'm cool with. I can live with the ultra yellow skin.

The only thing that bothers me are those weird videos between posts on the front page. Or am I the only one that sees those.......

Deca Sports colour scheme aside (since that is only temporary), I gotta agree about the layout. It was pretty busy before, but it was still manageable. The last week or so though all the stuff that used to be tiny and easily ignorable is much larger and in my face (ads, links to columns per system on the side). The site used to feel so streamlined, but has been getting more and more cluttered.

Plus I noticed the site is getting slower and slower to load for me. Pages that used to load up lightning fast now regularly take much longer. I've talked to other people who have noticed it too, so it's not just me.

I like the setup. It's funny. There's this thing that happens where when I don't care about ads and skins, I just kinda ignore them. It's amazing. AND IT WORKS. Viva la Destructoid!

I don't think the outrage has anything to do with understanding "how advermah-tizing works," we understand exactly why this is happening, but it's hideous. Just plain hideous.

I'm not a fan, but I understand the need to eat.

I think its become pretty clear that Deca Sports isn't just another shitty shovelware game. Hudson aren't the sort of company to do that.

But then I'm the sort of person who, ya know, doesn't judge games before he's played them?