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GameTrailers to close after 13 years
- Thread starter secretanchitman
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Sad news. Hope you guys can find something similar in the future or can find something rewarding for yourselves individually.
Thank you sir!
Guess I didn't edit that fast enough :O
At any rate, I think I'm turning in - going to try to get a few hours of sleep before meeting my supervisor in the morning. Keep up the good work.
mikefrails
Banned
Too bad, I had just rediscovered the site after the old era and instantly fell in love.
Labrynian Rebel
Member
Seriously though, can someone realistically do something about this? There are less and less well known media video game reviewers now.
Feels like Game Informer is next I'm afraid.
Game Informer has the #1 circulation count of any magazine, and it's backed by Gamestop. If GI was going down, Gamestop would be too, and the entire magazine rack at the store would no longer exist.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Where's the entire Invisible Walls archive? Can't seem to find it on Youtube channel and at GTs website there's only the last few videos available... damn.
Holyoneturtle
Member
Man I'm really going to miss a lot of shows from the gt crew. Damn at least I got a conclusion to their epic D&D game.
Seriously though, can someone realistically do something about this? There are less and less well known media video game reviewers now.
Feels like Game Informer is next I'm afraid.
Nah, Destructoid is next.
Portugeezer
Member
Rip
lowhighkang_LHK
Member
Doing something privately has it's benefits when you're not dealing with an ownership company.
In fact, the building rent was probably killing them and it was something not needed. You can easily re-purpose a room into a green screen soundstage nowadays. carry over the most successful shows. Keep twitch streaming going (as that was something that was really improving) keep the podcast, and look at patreon for extra funding.
GT has built a brand for the past 13 years, not to mention the actual employees themselves have become a brand as well. It would be terrible to just give that all up without considering the possibility of crowd-funding and managing content privately without the need to satisfy an ownership companies expectations or bottom-line. Youtube revenue, twitch revenue, patreon revenue, and not having to deal with office building rent - it could be possible. Consider the best GT content doesn't really require all that much money. The COP (cost of production) for The Final Bosman is basically the time it takes for Kyle to write an episode with a background. Final Bosman, GT Time, Huber Hype, Top Ten's, Man Ups, Reviews, It's all low cost - creative stuff.
IcyBlueStrawberry
Member
A more complete playlist (includes missing eps and Final Bets):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhapYE8uS1kXaChOPlqofBT5v_LIl6Jgr
ScaryShark
Banned
Really sad to see. I enjoyed an enormous amount of their content for over a decade. There were years where I'd watch every one of their reviews even for stuff I wasn't interested in because the production was so top notch.
Between this and the Daniel Bryan news, two things I've enjoyed for a long time aren't going to be there for entertainment anymore.
Hope the staff lands on their feet and gets to do something they enjoy and have a passion for.
Between this and the Daniel Bryan news, two things I've enjoyed for a long time aren't going to be there for entertainment anymore.
Hope the staff lands on their feet and gets to do something they enjoy and have a passion for.
Kyle could easily start a new YouTube show and be successful. Fingers crossed.
Wait they did a d and d game? Where can I watch this? What was it called?
King Beyond the wall
Member
Please tell me the entire crew will stick together and form a new site/youtube channel. Please...
I only discovered them about 2 months ago...
I only discovered them about 2 months ago...
Videogamer TV.
Well, last GT Time they were talking about how hard it must be for the "straights" to work with them, apparently it was as hard as they made it out to be.
Already Torn
Banned
That was a joke, the two are completely unrelated.
ryanodonnell
Neo Member
I started frequenting GT on a daily basis around 2009. I have probably visited the site at least every other day since then. Video Reviews. ScrewAttack. Mega 64. Final Bossman. It is gonna be weird to erase `Ctrl + t, g, a, enter` from my muscle memory.
Do we know?
They seem to have lost a fair few staff this last year too. Please not them as well.
GamingOblivion
Banned
Context, bro. They were kidding around.
Already Torn
Banned
Yes, downsizing has been happening since before they even moved to that office.
No but do the parent company even share that office space? I assumed they were just talking about other companies that also rent the same building.
I was watching the Youtube playlist of The Final Bosman last night. If it wasn't so sad, it'd almost be funny that we'll never get a continuation of the Liquid Bosman saga...
I really hope they go the crowd funding route, it broke my heart when the 1UP guys all went their separate (admittedly rather successful) directions.
I really hope they go the crowd funding route, it broke my heart when the 1UP guys all went their separate (admittedly rather successful) directions.
J_ToSaveTheDay
Member
There was a point in my life not too long ago that GT was my favorite enthusiast media source in video games, but I'll admit I kind of dropped off in the last few years -- really only somewhat kept up with Bosman. I never felt like my waning interest in the site was a result of poor content, just kind of a what felt like a limited scope of content.
Still pretty sad to hear about this. Their timeline series was fantastic, even though it only had a handful of videos, and Bosman was killing it. Hope they all appear in one form or another someplace else.
Still pretty sad to hear about this. Their timeline series was fantastic, even though it only had a handful of videos, and Bosman was killing it. Hope they all appear in one form or another someplace else.
Bubba_Sparks
Member
I really liked their reviews, in particular whoever did the voice over for the videos. I also liked their retrospective series of videos. I think it's a shame we wont get anymore content like that.
They've been hiring new people too, but they have a very successful patreon unlike GT.
Could be, I just thought it could be something like that since I've seen similar stuff happening before however. This was probably some big weird thing that happened since they'd have phased their stuff out at the end of last year rather than just come to a complete halt like this.
TheSpaceBetween
Member
That fucking blows. They are one of the few major gaming news outlets that didn't completely suck. I particularly enjoyed their retrospectives.
King Beyond the wall
Member
Back door shady deals bringing GT down...
Keep the jolly crew together Brandon, you can see the support right in this thread; its a viable option. Start your own site with Patreon and I will personally put £100 to it, and tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of fans will be there too.
Don't let the dream die.
Keep the jolly crew together Brandon, you can see the support right in this thread; its a viable option. Start your own site with Patreon and I will personally put £100 to it, and tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of fans will be there too.
Don't let the dream die.