Seriously what were they thinking? I’m literally only subscribed to their YT channel for Yahtzee stuff. Everyone who bought a membership is gonna cancel now.
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TCGM@lemmy.world 7 months ago
With a loss of people like that, The Escapist is dead too.
The pro gamer move would be to pick up the Zero Punctuation rights at auction.
FerolisD@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Radicaldog@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They probably had no idea Yahtzee and co were that loyal to Nick. That said, I’m shocked Yahtzee doesn’t have an ownership stake, as an insurance against… Well, this exact scenario.
ericbomb@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I kind of assumed he was like… mostly owner?
Like I sorted their YT videos by popular and after four pages I gave up looking for something that isn’t zero punctuation.
beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s the dairy farmer selling his only milk cow for all that sweet, sweet cow-selling cash, failing to see that this may potentially have an adverse effect on his milk-selling cash henceforth.
BenVimes@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I mean, should have died years ago the last thing they unceremoniously dumped talent over apparently ideological reasons, but they survived.
Granted, this time is different because now they are losing their primary breadwinner. They plodded along before because ZP still brought in people. This wound may actually be fatal.
cottonmon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, Yahtzee and ZP was what kept The Escapist alive (Pretty sure there was a point where ZP was their only content). Cold Take was the other thing that was interesting and they lost that too. I don’t think they have any other content without those guys.
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
They always had alternate content, it just generally sucked.