Pay money so I don't have to deal with minor annoyances like ads but my money doesn't do jack to get rid of/fix the rest of what is wrong with this site?

Hahaha no.

You ain't alone. Lots of peeps having this issue and it seems to be getting worse.

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/email-notifications-30879904/#0

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/email-for-every-new-comment-in-an-article-that-i-p-30896877/#4

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/disabled-notifications-still-get-notifications-30897407/#2

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/omg-thousands-of-emails-30892310/#10

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/getting-spammed-30889157/#16

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/turn-off-online-status-and-stop-emailing-me-30884559/#3

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/my-email-notification-setting-not-working-getting--30838347/#5

I guess they're working on it?

I really don't know. What I've had to do for the time being is unsubscribe from any conversations I was in and have mostly stopped commenting. If you comment again, you'll get emails from wherever you commented until unsubscribe again. Yes, this means unsubscribing every time you comment, or just don't comment until this is resolved :/

lol no

No one would have complained that the new site was taking too long.

I was plenty happy.

It's not dying it's being strangled

The team bit off more than they could chew and rushed ahead instead of taking the time to make things work properly. I've been around here since '05 or so - been using this account exclusively since 2010. This is easily the worst "redesign" I've ever seen.

I'm not uncomfortable with change. I rather like it. I like things to be fresh and exciting. Until this particular fiasco, I've thought the changes made around here have mostly been pretty good.

But countless site crippling bugs are not exciting. Thousands upon thousands of spammed emails from the comment system is not exciting. Missing and broken features are not exciting. Ignoring your community is not exciting. A completely hideous metro interface is most definitely not exciting - seriously, where has a metro interface worked?

I don't want the old site back, and even if I did, that won't happen because there is such a thing as ego. But I do want this place to actually function. Right now it doesn't - not even close.

I don't come here to be frustrated. But that's all I've gotten out of this place since this went down. I'm a patient guy, but if there isn't some serious work done and soon, I like many others will be saying goodbye,

The old site isn't coming back. Aside from the obvious technical reasons, it would also mean the staff and programmers admitting they effed up, which won't happen

Whatever the point of the beta may or may not have been, it didn't accomplish jack

You ain't alone. Lots of peeps having this issue and it seems to be getting worse.

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/email-notifications-30879904/#0

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/email-for-every-new-comment-in-an-article-that-i-p-30896877/#4

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/disabled-notifications-still-get-notifications-30897407/#2

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/omg-thousands-of-emails-30892310/#10

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/getting-spammed-30889157/#16

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/turn-off-online-status-and-stop-emailing-me-30884559/#3

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/bug-reporting-feedback-1000006/my-email-notification-setting-not-working-getting--30838347/#5

I guess they're working on it?

I really don't know. What I've had to do for the time being is unsubscribe from any conversations I was in and have mostly stopped commenting. If you comment again, you'll get emails from wherever you commented until unsubscribe again. Yes, this means unsubscribing every time you comment, or just don't comment until this is resolved :/

Who knows. This site should never have gone live in the state it is in. Beta was far far too short and didn't accomplish anything. Best thing you can do right now is unsubscribe from any existing conversations, and then stop commenting for the time being. If this persists and continues to spread to other users, Gamespot is going to have some very dead comment sections