Flagship gaming website loses its video team as star of ‘Zero Punctuation’ resigns

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• Tedesche@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nothing looks better on a corporate resume than taking over a successful business and immediately alienating all the talent that made it successful. I don’t know who the jerkwad is that fucked up so badly, but I hope this follows them for years.

  Kudos to Nick, Yahtzee and all the rest for sticking with each other in solidarity rather than caving to corporate pressure. I’ll be looking forward to seeing them produce new videos in the future, hopefully under their own LLC.

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  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Its already up and cracking. They took the whole company with them.

    Second Wind on youtube.

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    • spudwart@spudwart.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “employee owned”

      Nice

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    • TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you so much for this, awesome.

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• Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  While The Escapist grew stronger and bigger year after year under Nick, their owners at Gamur were upset the site didn’t reek of panic and despair like a good corporate environment should.

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• Davel23@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What exactly do they mean by "flagship"? The Escapist had Zero Punctuation and... that's about it. Aside from some Yahtzee Croshaw podcasts, I can't think of anything else worth watching on there.

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  • Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Adventure is Nigh, Cold Take, Design Delve, Stuff of Legend, 3 Minute Reviews, some documentaries like the Spiritfarer one.

    They have more, but those are what I watched.

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    • SebKra@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      3 Minute Reviews were good, but reviews are relatively easy to shovel out. Their essays were so bad, I started to actively avoid them.

      The Anatomy of Sekiro comes to mind in particular. Competently structured but devoid of any meaningful observations.

      It feels like these guys where working to meet a quota.

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• caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I‘m pretty sure some greedy suit killed the whole company overnight and I can‘t control my schadenfreude

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• Cheesus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So many talented creators have left over bad working conditions. Not surprising it’s still going on now.

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