Comment on Game Informer shuts down after 33 years

pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Indeed. Its sad to see a reputable name go before something far less reputable, like Kotaku for example.

  I guess it must be true, hate clicks and outrage do generate more revenue than real, genuine gaming articles written with pretty good journalistic integrity.

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    eh, kotaku has some solid articles and reporting as well. gaming journalism in general is incestuous shit but most of the anti-kotaku sentiment comes from goonergate shit

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    • Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The hilarious thing about you getting downvotes immediately is Kotaku led the reporting on this news this morning. Link is in the posted article, y’all.

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      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Of course Kotaku is going to report on it. They want in on the outrage of companies firing employees that has been happening lately.

        They were throwing temper tantrums over the owner of Kotaku telling them that they needed to write more gaming guides/articles instead of the pop culture outrage garbage they had been spewing that tarnished their reputation. Imagine workking for a gaming media outlet, and then getting mad when the owner tells you that you need to focus on gaming articles.

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    • Maven@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Nah, Kotaku had a shit reputation for years before gamergate got shat into existence. Their reporting was sloppy and often wrong, most of them sucked at the games they were reviewing, they spammed out vapid clickbait articles about nothing to farm ad rev. The only reason people respect them now is because they were positioned opposite gamergate, as if two things can’t both suck.

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      • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        no. literally no one gave a shit about kotaku before goonergate.

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  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    a reputable name

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    they were wholly owned by gamestop. their magazine was a lever to drive gamestop subscriptions and upsells. y’all worried about kotaku crack me up, if there were real ethics in game journalism a supposedly independent publication reviewing the products wouldn’t be owned by the largest vendor of the products.

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• Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is it actual work to just say what the publishers tell you to say and give everything a 7?

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  • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If you actually read their interviews and reviews you will see that it is way more in-depth than any YouTube essays or twitch streams. It sucks that those things attract more people because I get way more informed at an objective level with GI articles and similar podcasts.

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    • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m gonna guess they got better in the 15 years since I was subscribed.

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      • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I wouldn’t say better, if you didn’t like them in their earlier days then I doubt you would like them now. To me, they just provided more thorough insights into the games than random YouTuber or Reddit comment section.

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• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Eh… they were beholden to the games industry as much as any publication, and perhaps more due to their ownership.

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    yeah i meant work as in interesting content rather than journalism. never referred to GI for reviews but they had fun content.

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      that’s fair.

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