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.
Flagship gaming website loses its video team as star of ‘Zero Punctuation’ resigns
Submitted 11 months ago by BarterClub@sh.itjust.works to games@lemmy.world
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Deestan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Davel23@kbin.social 11 months 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.
Deestan@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
SebKra@feddit.de 11 months 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.
caut_R@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I‘m pretty sure some greedy suit killed the whole company overnight and I can‘t control my schadenfreude
Cheesus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So many talented creators have left over bad working conditions. Not surprising it’s still going on now.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Its already up and cracking. They took the whole company with them.
Second Wind on youtube.
spudwart@spudwart.com 11 months ago
“employee owned”
Nice
TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thank you so much for this, awesome.