cuevas. PhD.
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What happens to Coonce???
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Keyser Soze
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Stop linking to that shithole
Oh my god who are these tools on my screen? WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?
Ventilaator
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Accepting this based on the stream is the silly and overreacting position to take here. Everything they said after the announcement of what's happening literally doesn't mean anything at all. Of course they are going to be all it's-all-gonna-be-fine about this, whether it is or it isn't.
Watching the stream and thinking that the people who are suspicious are too pessimistic is the equivalent of reading the press release of a new game announcement promising a "deep and visceral experience" and going "This sounds great! I don't know why some other people aren't jumping with joy."
We actually need to see it happen is what I'm saying.
Also, I want one of the GB team to get fired from Bombspot.com and start their own new videogame website and then be followed by other members of the team.
Watching the stream and thinking that the people who are suspicious are too pessimistic is the equivalent of reading the press release of a new game announcement promising a "deep and visceral experience" and going "This sounds great! I don't know why some other people aren't jumping with joy."
We actually need to see it happen is what I'm saying.
Also, I want one of the GB team to get fired from Bombspot.com and start their own new videogame website and then be followed by other members of the team.
At the very least I think people need to realize that if something like this didn't happen, Giantbomb wasn't going to exist at all probably sooner rather than later. Even if it winds up going to shit a few years down the line, at least that's a few more years than we would have had.
It's never been clear that Whiskey wasn't making money. In fact, why would CBS buy GB with no major changes or layoffs? Especially since CBS owns gamespot, one of the biggest gaming websites in the world?
Seconded. John addressed (on the On The Spot live stream for a brief period) the importance of keeping GiantBomb and GameSpot as completely different entities, stressing the difference in coverage and content, so I'm not worried here.
One interesting of note: John mentioned that both Comic Vine and Giant Bomb are moving to the new offices TODAY. Talk about not wasting time.
They were busy last week and the week before finalizing everything and moving everything out. So thats why there has been a lack of content on GB and tested.
ashbash159
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Rewatching the live stream from earlier. I'm already much more happy than I was before.
So Giant Bomb DOES NOT EQUAL GameSpot am I right?
There are two separate website owned by the same company, correct?
As long as GB stays GB and gets crazier, I'm excited!
So Giant Bomb DOES NOT EQUAL GameSpot am I right?
There are two separate website owned by the same company, correct?
As long as GB stays GB and gets crazier, I'm excited!
killer_clank
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Empty Space
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So Dave is going with them then? Is that what people are assuming or was it explicitly stated? I feel kind of bad for Matt Rorie.
Great. They already had to cut down on the silly stuff around the office once they moved to the Whiskey office, now its gonna be cut down even more.
Plexirvones
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Bleh. They only talked about that whole thing for a few minutes.
Backfoggen
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Lmao at their crappy green screen background. It's like Patrick's news updates but not ironic.
MiniBossBattle
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Does this mean Vinny will get a racing wheel?
Neuromancer
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Yes, horrendous. I really hope GB keeps its current video format.
This stream/show/whatever it is might be the worst thing ive ever seen about videogames. "HOW MANY WEAPONS? HOW MANY LEVELS? HOW MANY CHARACTERS?" bleh.
Yeah i was wondering this as well. I got a paid subscription around christmas and there has not been a lot going on over there.
Dave and Drew are going with them, along with Alexis and a few others that were mentioned (not sure if Coonce is or not).
Jeff said that subscriptions were literally the only thing keeping them going during the stream.
searched for Kevin Van Ord on youtube and the first video was 3 minutes of him deadpanning while talking about Dark Souls like it was a text-based roguelike.
Keyser Soze
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Thier parent company did... but Tested was bought by someone else.
It is like two friends moving to separate ends of the country
Also, something happened Screened. Poor Rorie.
A silver lining!
Riposte
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Now they can use their influence to change metacritic to 5/5 scale.
Neuromancer
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I did my part
BobTheFork
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FFS I don't know what to think. I just heard about all of this and it just feels like the end. What happens to our subcriptions now? It was a total subscription and now the two sites I went to are in two different places.
I think I'm just depressed. I know they might not have been able to keep going but this is just like your favorite band breaking up. I loved all the guys coming together for different videos, it's what made it fun to watch. I can't believe they are going back to the gamespot offices :/
I'm going to watch everything in the whiskey archive this weekend. I loved Whiskey for what is was and that just changed permenantly, this sucks!
I did just renew my subscription last month as well/
I think I'm just depressed. I know they might not have been able to keep going but this is just like your favorite band breaking up. I loved all the guys coming together for different videos, it's what made it fun to watch. I can't believe they are going back to the gamespot offices :/
I'm going to watch everything in the whiskey archive this weekend. I loved Whiskey for what is was and that just changed permenantly, this sucks!
I did just renew my subscription last month as well/
All I can tell is CBS has bought them. And then I think rest of Whisky Media, apart from Comic-Vine, was bought by BermanBraun. Whoever they are.
Not much else I can make out with everyone in a panic.
Oh God fucking dammit!
It sounds okay now, but what happens if/when John Davison leaves Gamespot? John moved from 1UP to What They Play to GamePro to GameSpot in the span of a few years. I'm not convinced he'll always be around to "protect" them.
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slaughterking
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I predicted that one right! Expect lots of Skype call-ins!
Another one is they will have to follow a stricter, more consistent schedule for content. As much as people hate "selling out," this is a huge benefit when it comes to Giantbomb.
Barren Mondays and certain events not occurring because ??? won't be acceptable under a more professional parent company.
This is what Jeff and Ryan are saying.
Giant Bomb stays Giant Bomb, at least for now
Who knows what will happen a year from now though
Mythbusters is franscisco base, so they'll be around. But yeah, tested/giantbomb crossovers were always the best.
were...
Regardless of what this means for the end user (I'm personally optimistic that the GB I love will remain relatively intact), this is some ultimate revenge scenario for Jeff, depending on how candid the discussion about 2007 is in a couple hours and what is all revealed. If he did in fact get shitcanned with a settlement in 2007 only to start his own company and half a decade later get a big payout to sell it back to the same company that did him wrong initially? You couldn't write a better script.
Tested.com was "bought" by the Mythbusters...
i like john he was one of my favorites on 1up yours but john is a fixer. he comes into a dying company and turns it around then moves on. stuff goes to shit again after new management comes in. example gamepro.
so you mean discovery? if discovery gets their hands on the site it will run into the ground in a year.
Yeah, but it's not like they run ads, what else would they make money from? It still doesn't mean they're hurting. This seems like a dramatically different situation than, say, when UGO bought 1up, which indeed was because they were about to go bankrupt.
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