Good idea to move on to metacritic Matt et al… It was nice while it lasted.

Keep up the good work!

I really don’t see that it makes any sense for IGN to request this stuff be taken down.

Isn’t any time you have us looking at tomato icons, or thinking about rottentomatoes.com good for IGN?
When I want to know about a movie, i instantly think rottentomatoes. I love explaining the simple rotten/fresh system to the uninitiated… stuff like this just leaves a little bit of a sour taste in my mouth.

IGN has their own free app for iPhone that allows you to get free content -game scores/reviews/video reviews.

If they want to do this right, IGN should make an iPhone rottentomatoes app similar to their IGN reviews app.

The only reason I can think they would do this is they are planning on coming out with a version with ads integrated, and they don’t want people to access to the version without ads.

Either way, I think it’s a mistake.

But even if the widget didn’t keep people from going to the site (It didn’t keep me, for example, from going there…I like to read WHY a movie is low rated, not just see that it’s low rated), the widget does keep people from going to the front page of the site (where there is a huge ad before you see the page itself) because it takes you right to the movie you’re interested in. Therefore, it is quite understandable (in my mind) why they would want to snuff out the widget, even though I also am sad it’s gone. Thanks for making it, Matt.

On the other hand, IGN has made something of a gamble as well because I will be going to RT much less now that the widget is gone simply because it will take more time to go there now. This will especially be the case when Matt gets the Metacritic widget going.

Regarding Steve’s question, presumably IGN is the company who owns RT or at least is the henchman who goes after people RT perceives to be a threat to its business. And who is this IGN to Matt, et al.? Well, basically, he doesn’t want to be sued.

On a more uplifting note. Thanks for all you hard work on your tomatometer app. It was awesome. People like you are what make the internet tick. Good luck to you in the future mate.