Just 4 weeks after another long time IGN staffer, Alanah Pearce, announced she was leaving IGN, Marty Sliva has announced he is leaving as well. 

Hey friends. After 7 wonderful years, I’ve decided to move on from IGN to focus on some personal projects. The entire crew there is nothing short of incredible, and I’m stoked to watch them continue to do amazing things day in and day out.

— Marty Sliva (@McBiggitty) July 24, 2018

What do you guys think, are rats fleeing a sinking ship, or is this just the natural course of people wanting to start new chapters in their life?

Alanah has an other job that she wanted to do, but she wanted to stream full time but she is not allowed to stay in the states if she does it.

Hm, not shocking really. His complete disappearance from podcast in the last few months have been weird

IGN used to be good, but they just keep hiring too many random freelance writers. I like Easy Allies, and Destructoid because they have one guy doing the bulk of the reviews. It makes it easier to get to know and understand the reviewer. So if they say something bad about a game, I might get it anyway, due to knowing their tastes and writing style for so long, that I know their criticisms won't be mine.

Is that the 7.8/10 too much water person? That's the only thing I know about IGN so if it isn't that person I don't care

Ka-pi96 said: Is that the 7.8/10 too much water person? That's the only thing I know about IGN so if it isn't that person I don't care

No, that was one of their freelance writers named Kallie Plagge. 

Things like this can happen in any organisation being nobody's fault, however for those who got used to watching the old crew, it's a bit bitter.

Him and Alanah use to be like best friends.....now they dont even follow each other on Twitter....same as Brian and Max Scoville. Something happened between alanah and marty that pushed some away from Marty

I agree that if you're going to run a big site, it's better to have at most ... like ... 4-5 people running it. I've watched a couple of those old Gamespot reviews and it's impressive how well they describe a game in like 5 minutes, seriously. I think their best reviews were .... Greg and .. Jeff? I think that's their first names. They were great. I think the fat one is one Destructoid or something, he's on all the VR memes now. 

His name is Marty Sliva