GiantBomb was one independent gamesite with a relatively small team that had to do pretty much everything and had to take care of their own facilitities and travel and whatever else. As part of CBS Interactive, GiantBomb will be part of a company that already has pretty great studio facilities, a big office, people excellent at selling advertising, and more access to other companies. The GiantBomb-crew can now focus wholly on pumping out content; a lot of the travelplanning and making sure the studio had the right equipment is now kinda taken care of. That makes the site cheaper to maintain, presumably, and because they now have a proper team of people looking for advertisers they can probably rake in more money too.So let me see if I've got this straight:
That makes no sense.
- GB wasn't making money (or enough money) in its current incarnation
- Gamespot buys them out thinking they can turn it around
- GB claims it's going to be the same old site we know and love
Gamespot obviously thinks they can wring a profit out of GB, they're not buying it out of the goodness of their hearts. If GB stays the same presumably it will generate the same revenues (even less now with people cancelling their subs.) So how on earth can it remain the same?
I've yet to see a merger of this nature go well, and I remain pessimistic as to the outcome of this one.
Still, hope springs eternal, and I will continue forward with the GB crew and hope for the best.
Gosh, I thought I was the only one. :lol
