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[entremet]

If you're lamenting the lack of features writing at Polygon, here is a small selection of feature stories we've run in 2016

• The Making of PlayStation VR
• Sonic the Hedgehog’s Long, Great, Rocky History
• The Division is Ubisoft’s future
• Sid Meier: The Man Who Made a Million Empires
• How Market Research Changes Your Games
• The Mad Scientists of Blizzard: Sound Design in Heroes of the Storm
• Highwire Games: The Seattle Supergroup Trying to Tackle VR’s Trickiest Problems
• How Metal Gear Solid 5 Inspired a Bionic Arm
• The Game Industry of Iran
• The PhDs Changing Games
• Imposter Syndrome: Game Developers Who Feel Like Frauds
• The Game Industry of South Africa

So a 4 long pieces per month clip?

That's pretty good for gaming site and PPC ad revenue.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

So a 4 long pieces per month clip?

That's pretty good for gaming site and PPC ad revenue.

Agreed.

 

[Imbarkus]

Still good long-form stuff going on on the site, but Russ was something special.

The sites that wait for ad revenue to die off completely before securing other streams of revenue will just begin to chase clickbait, it's just what it is.

http://digiday.com/agencies/confessions-media-agency-ceo-programmatic-online-display-exercise-polishing-turd/

Talented and invested management can both justify and fund most endeavors they care about, considering that the entire revenue model is pretty much just a made-up construct.

 

[Desi]

I actually read a really good Long Form article from Racked about the lifestyle brand "Kinfolk" last night too.

Shame because those types of stories have a lot of merit and draw by giving the base something different.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Modern journalism.
Cheap, sensationalist headline, get clicks. Balls to everything else.

FTFY.

 

[Joni]

They don't write them anymore because people could too easily see the other writers sucked. Or did I paraphrase too much? Gaf should launch that kind of site, user content with strict fact checking review.

 

[xevis]

Gaming journalism.
Cheap, sensationalist headline, get clicks. Balls to everything else.

The journalism we deserve

 

[Log4Girlz]

The journalism we deserve

The bump we didn't

 

[Savantcore]

If you're lamenting the lack of features writing at Polygon, here is a small selection of feature stories we've run in 2016

• The Making of PlayStation VR
• Sonic the Hedgehog's Long, Great, Rocky History
• The Division is Ubisoft's future
• Sid Meier: The Man Who Made a Million Empires
• How Market Research Changes Your Games
• The Mad Scientists of Blizzard: Sound Design in Heroes of the Storm
• Highwire Games: The Seattle Supergroup Trying to Tackle VR's Trickiest Problems
• How Metal Gear Solid 5 Inspired a Bionic Arm
• The Game Industry of Iran
• The PhDs Changing Games
• Imposter Syndrome: Game Developers Who Feel Like Frauds
• The Game Industry of South Africa

Please get Dave Tach reading them again. Long Reads podcast on Spotify is the bomb.

Ah, just saw the date on this thread...

 

[Jackpot]

old thread, but this is a reminder of the mind-numbing dross Polygon puts out:

http://www.polygon.com/features/2017/2/15/14616192/gabe-newell-interview-vr

Gabe Newell sits perfectly still, leans forward. His hands are laid on his lap. Only his eyes are moving. They shift rapidly from left to right and back again. He's physically here, he's sort of listening, but I'd say he's also somewhere else, mentally untangling the knots of the future.

The way he talks bears this out. He's unscripted, exploratory. He ranges far from corporate dogma and empty visionary horseshit. He admits when he’s been wrong in the past, or that he might be wrong right now about one of the biggest gambles of his career.

I like this about him: the act of engaging with journalists without a script, enjoying an actual conversation, prodding ideas that might be important outside the confines of a media event.

Time yourself to see how long it takes to actually reach any of Gabe's comments.

 

[23qwerty]

old thread, but this is a reminder of the mind-numbing dross Polygon puts out:

http://www.polygon.com/features/2017/2/15/14616192/gabe-newell-interview-vr



Time yourself to see how long it takes to actually reach any of Gabe's comments.

Like a minute?


Wot?

Hate boner on here for Polygon is crazy