BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Game journo biz is dying before our eyes.
Polygon sold to Valnet and suffers mass layoffs
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Game journo biz is dying before our eyes.
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
sad to see that searching "let them suffer" in the gif search just brings up some screamo band.
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spookyfish
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BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
I never liked this site from day 1. Psycho Ben Kuchera, sanctimonious Arthur Gies and Chris Plante, and a whole bunch of purple hairs. No idea if any of them are still there or not. Well I guess not after today.
BossLackey
Gold Member
Weird. I thought they'd actually be swimming in cash by attacking the core demo of the industry the "report" on.
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
Kacho
Member
Oh shit, I remember him lmao. What a weirdo.
StreetsofBeige
Member
Do good gaming content and gamers will stick around.
Always amazing how joe nobody streamers doing Twitch and YT feeds on their own time and relying on click revenue can outdo corporate employees on a payroll.
Goes to show how shitty their content is.
Always amazing how joe nobody streamers doing Twitch and YT feeds on their own time and relying on click revenue can outdo corporate employees on a payroll.
Goes to show how shitty their content is.
sloppyjoe_gamer
Gold Member
They went from actual gaming journalists to this, that's why. Let them continue to eat themselves alive...adios!
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Zacfoldor
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Let it. Demand will still be here. What rises from the ashes will be greater than before. We could use some rain. Be brave. Only thru this cycle can we truly evolve. We could use some cleaning of the agendas out of gaming. Games should never be a source of social engineering. Maybe if they get wiped out financially for trying they will recognize their own evil and not try it again. AC Shadows enjoyers in shambles.
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Phobos Base
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Luckily for them, fries will always need putting into bags
MiguelItUp
Member
Anytime gaming takes a backseat on gaming outlets, it's just not worth going to anymore. Unfortunately a lot of the ones we grew up with went that route. I just don't even bother revisiting any these days. Hell, I haven't for years.
diffusionx
Gold Member
USAID money drying up
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RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
This.
I just wanted the internet equivalent of the PlayStation magazines back in the day. Not this weird political nonsense they're giving us.
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spookyfish
Gold Member
Gies was insufferable.
kpopSuperstar
Member
Gaming media has always been left leaning outlets with political angles and agendas dug into every nook and cranny, and Polygon has long been a frustrating relic of a time when bloggers and activists would get jobs they were never qualified to have.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
It's funny that the places that don't really editorialize at all, like Gematsu and VGC, seem to be doing just fine
Draugoth
Gold Member
Looks up Polygon journalists on X/Bluesky
They have pronouns on their Bios
checks out
Still sad to see people lost their jobs
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Represent.
Represent(ative) of bad opinions
Alanah was right
GHG
Member
diffusionx
Gold Member
The Verge was good when it launched. Polygon was underwhelming for the reasons you state. Then GG hit and it all went to shit. That also more or less coincided with Nilay Patel taking over The Verge and well that guy is a lunatic.
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Kacho
Member
diffusionx
Gold Member
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
Can't believe this might actually come back. Can't wait!!!
Draugoth
Gold Member
It's Polygone
SomeNorseGuy
Member
Aww, what a shame. Not sure I'll be able to sleep tonight, thoughts and prayers to those affected.
StreetsofBeige
Member
In general, anything attention seeking skews left (media, celebs, athletes, companies promoting for PR pts etc...). They do it due to the nature of the people working there (attention whoring liberals to begin with) and it combines with aiming for an image of being giving and caring. So on paper, it sounds like a match made in heaven for success.
Problem is a lot of the people and companies doing this are morons and people figured out their agenda. So users move on to more genuine people or companies with no political slant.
It's also problematic for media people because their existence mostly comes from being egotistical and attention seeking or doing such great content people seek them out. Most of their content is juvenile junk ad forgotten 2 days later, so that leaves being loud or controversial hoping to be noticed to keep a job. Its a short term fix because it might work at the beginning, but then it fizzles out. It's like look how crazy all the YT people are now for attention doing dumb shit when it wasnt like this when video sites first popped up in the 2000s. You got to be crazier than the last guy to keep those clicks coming. Making video games is similar for many studios. Their next game always has to be bigger and splashier as a priority. Gameplay secondary.
To give people an example of media that is successful on content alone without loud annoying political people is National Geographic. Their mag and videos are literally nature shots spun into a story. But it's not loud, pronoun based or any other childish antics for views. As crazy as it sounds, just have good content showing insects, frogs or lions and hyenas fighting and that good enough to entertain without the attitude.
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