TheGamer website suffers widespread editorial layoffs

Gamer_By_Proxy said:
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This GIF never gets old.
 
StreetsofBeige said:
I dont follow the site, and barely read the site ever. But I remember people saying the site is political.

But back in the day, PC Gamer magazine was awesome. Like most PC game mags, really thick with lots of content and text articles. While video game mags were tons of pics, shitty editorial and tons of ads. My bro used to buy the mag every month and I remember his first one had Transport Tycoon on the cover.

Those PC Gamer mags were ruthless back then. Games would get less than 50% score all the time. I remember my share of reading junky buggy games getting 10 or 20%.
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I used to really like Kotaku before it became an activist site, so I get the sentiment.

I'd say at least half of the articles I see linked around from PCGamer these days are low quality clickbait and only vaguely gaming-related leftist propaganda.
yogaflame said:
And the ultimate price, IGN which has the worse leftist and woke infestation.
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Honestly they're both about even. IGN is just bigger.

Look at this stupid shit.
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The downfall of gaming websites is fascinating. It's like one day they all collectively decided that they want to make most of their coverage political, and it put off most readers who are in this hobby purely for entertainment.
 
Braag said:
The downfall of gaming websites is fascinating. It's like one day they all collectively decided that they want to make most of their coverage political, and it put off most readers who are in this hobby purely for entertainment.
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University brainwashing on display. Most journalism has this problem and I don't see it going away unless the education system is reformed.
 
This is really what will happen to all the gaming media. What will be left are dedicated columns in large newspapers e.g. The Guardian writing something more than simply news from the reel that companies send out. There is simply no differentiating factor, and also people do not care about high-quality content. It's really not so different than classical music being a shadow of what it once was.
 
I hate to see people lose their jobs. But come on. You can't make decent money off ads without drawing in lots of normal people to read your output. The saddest part is people didn't see the writing on the wall if they kept catering to the weirds.
 
Cyberpunkd said:
This is really what will happen to all the gaming media. What will be left are dedicated columns in large newspapers e.g. The Guardian writing something more than simply news from the reel that companies send out. There is simply no differentiating factor, and also people do not care about high-quality content. It's really not so different than classical music being a shadow of what it once was.
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Listening to some YT channels dicussing this, some think what will shake out for gaming sites will be this:

- The giant sites like IGN survive due to sheer size and popularity

- YT/podcaster kinds of game sites will do fine as many treat it more like a hobby, have low costs, and are more believable than corporately run sites

- That big middle chunk of sites trying to make it a career like it's IGN but way smaller with cookie cutter content or politics will fade away. The economics dont make sense, some sites are redundant as they are owned by the same parent company(!), and many losing viewers due to pissing off gamers.
 
StreetsofBeige said:
- The giant sites like IGN survive due to sheer size and popularity

- YT/podcaster kinds of game sites will do fine as many treat it more like a hobby, have low costs, and are more believable than corporately run sites
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I don't see how big sites like IGN can survive, people are relying more and more on word of mouth and recommendations from people they trust and know, even if it's a Youtuber.

On the YouTube front I think it will continue based on the strength of YouTuber personality. Let's be honest - majority of reviews done by the largest channels are absolutely cookie-cutter crap just reading from a spreadsheet, that's not why millions watch them (looking at you Marcus and Linus).
 
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