Polygon sold to Valnet and suffers mass layoffs

Whenever I see anything about Polygon I instantly think of that Doom 2016 gameplay, amazing stuff, I will go rewatch it later.
 
DAHGAMING said:
Whenever I see anything about Polygon I instantly think of that Doom 2016 gameplay, amazing stuff, I will go rewatch it later.
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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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My favorite Arthur Gies moment was when he went on a crusade defending EA for not having an offline mode in Sim City 2013, ranting about how it was impossible because of muh cloud etc. They patched in offline mode three days later.
 
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My favorite Arthur Gies moment was when he went on a crusade defending EA for not having an offline mode in Sim City 2013, ranting about how it was impossible because of muh cloud etc. They patched in offline mode three days later.
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Never paid much attention to these clowns, but I got a good laugh when they criticized Forspoken for portraying a black person in a fantasy world where racism doesn't exist.
 
It's media.

So their livelihood depends on clicks, edgy content and clickbait article titles unless its something truly sought after. Something like Wall St Journal business articles people want hard news, so the content is accurate and to the point talking business and numbers. People will read that stuff not to be entertained like watching a movie, but for knowledge. People seek out this info even if it's boring text.

Gaming is pure entertainment. Hardly anyone is going to care about it unless there's some kind of eyepopping text to get their click. And in recent times, it skews to agendas and politics and dumbass articles hoping you give them your 5 cent click.
 
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It's actually insane. This guy was probably getting paid 100k a year or close to it (Patrick Klepek was getting 100k from Kotaku) to talk/ write about videogames. This looks like you handed the controller to grandpa at Thanksgiving or something. You are not qualified to have an opinion worth listening to if this is what happens when you press record and pick up the controller.




I still remember the douche chills I got from this video the day they launched the site. He also got a Polygon tattoo. Lmao.
 
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Alyssa Mercante is melting down over this


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That part about "little to no moral standards" really sticks out to me. It is that exact attitude, that belief that they are the arbiters of morality, that has resulted in audience alienation, sites closing, and job losses. It is apparent, though, that people like her are incapable of understanding this simple concept. Normally I'm sympathetic to job losses, but not so much in this case. It is so thoroughly deserved - especially in cases like hers.
 
Lol they're the ones who did that Xbox fluff documentary right?

Chris Plante was a remarkable Phil Spencer dicksucker from what I recall too.
 
I used to frequent that site in its early years when it was just starting up. I remember they recommended the xbox one throughout the console launch giving it a higher score than PS4. I thought nothing of it at the time.
Then they gave the PS4 version of Call Of Duty Ghosts a lower score than the xbox one version (a first to split scores like that) citing an inexplicable "performance difference" that never showed up in any actual testing. Then with the countless other PS4 vs Xbox One games that performed noticeably worse on xbox they never gave a lower score, ever, to the xbox one when it was apparent that the PS4 was more powerful. Fast forward some months it was revealed that MS paid polygon $750,000 to fund a crap video that could not have had a budget greater than 75k where they interviewed Polygon staff like Arthur Gies. It's obvious that something was fishy there and I stopped visiting entirely.
 
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Literally will celebrate with a drink tonight, they were on the top of my list for most insufferable gaming site along with Kotaku.

Polygon was straight up hipster garbage from their pretentious as fuck introduction video that showed Arthur Gies getting a tattoo in San Francisco to show how raw and different they were...to then just be the same tired ass games journalism "researching" articles...by sifting through social media for information like everybody else.

Too few of the people working at these outlets could build anything on their own, only had value going to work for something already established (usually with venture capital), have limited technical knowledge to even build a platform, and are just insufferable people that couldn't hack it in other journalistic places they'd rather be.
 
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