Polygon sold to Valnet and suffers mass layoffs

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StreetsofBeige said:
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, so that leaves being loud or controversial hoping to be noticed to score a job. Its a short term fix because it might work at the beginning, but then it fizzles out.

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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It wasn't always the case, back in the 90's and early 00's magazines wouldn't talk about politics at all . Yes there were plenty that were barely disguised adverts where they played it for 10 minutes and gave it 80%, but the good ones were really good.
 
Phobos Base said:
It wasn't always the case, back in the 90's and early 00's magazines wouldn't talk about politics at all . Yes there were plenty that were barely disguised adverts where they played it for 10 minutes and gave it 80%, but the good ones were really good.
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Very true. The internet really amped up the drama coming from media sites. And they got to do this because all the joe nobodys and their YT channels and Twitch feeds are beating game sites run under corporate umbrellas. So to get those clicks, they need to be crazier and crazier.
 
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I came in here hoping someone had changed the infamous Mario kart polygon chart appropriately, and I'm now leaving disappointed.

For shame GAF, for shame.
 
Phobos Base said:
It wasn't always the case, back in the 90's and early 00's magazines wouldn't talk about politics at all . Yes there were plenty that were barely disguised adverts where they played it for 10 minutes and gave it 80%, but the good ones were really good.
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It was a different world (of course) and the relics of that era are completely indistinguishable from what gaming media turned into, but honestly being into games media was as exciting (if not more so) than playing the actual games. It was a whole new world slowly developing, and a very enthusiastic one at that - reporting felt juvenile, but it didn't matter because it was really exciting. Remember, there was no WWW back in those early days, you had hobbyist discussion on places like the usenet (which I am certain most folks had limited or zero access to) but there weren't really places to discuss games/look at media in realtime unless you actually bought or rented a game (or went to your friends house, or an arcade, et cetera).

Gaming journalism - along with all journalism, and other forms of communication - changed with the advent and growth of social media. We will continue to see this evolution, one way or the other.
 
Absolute shit game reviews from the ones I recall so...yea. I don't really wish joblessness on anyone but I haven't wasted my time reading any of their shit for years.
 
BennyBlanco said:
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.
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These 2 are the reason I stopped going to Polygon back in the day.
 
Maybe articles along the lines of , "Top 5 reasons to stand on your head and masturbate while playing your video games", didn't help?

I'm not sure, just asking.
 
I wonder if being self righteous, insufferable, and preachy was worth it all. They really had some of the most sensationalist takes ever when they weren't actively virtue signalling for internet good boy points. Like I remember some shit where AoT was veiled neo nazi recruiting media. Their articles reached that level of absurdity.

Right side of history and all... what an arrogant as fuck claim to make.

Maybe at the next job, just talk about games in a fucking gaming publication you were getting paid money to report about without the constant need to insert yourself and editorialize to feel morally superior.
 
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EviLore said:
Yes, they really published a major feature on the author completely misunderstanding the point of everything in Attack on Titan and calling it fascistic and antisemitic.
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Every time I think this lunatics cant surprise me anymore some crazy shit proves me wrong.... Damn.
 
wondermega said:
It was a different world (of course) and the relics of that era are completely indistinguishable from what gaming media turned into, but honestly being into games media was as exciting (if not more so) than playing the actual games. It was a whole new world slowly developing, and a very enthusiastic one at that - reporting felt juvenile, but it didn't matter because it was really exciting. Remember, there was no WWW back in those early days, you had hobbyist discussion on places like the usenet (which I am certain most folks had limited or zero access to) but there weren't really places to discuss games/look at media in realtime unless you actually bought or rented a game (or went to your friends house, or an arcade, et cetera).

Gaming journalism - along with all journalism, and other forms of communication - changed with the advent and growth of social media. We will continue to see this evolution, one way or the other.
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One of my favourites was PC Zone, they had an entire section called Sick Notes where you would write in just to start a fight or get insulted. Imagine today's generation of purple hairs having the sense of humour to do something like that.
 
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