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Polygon Has Been Sold With Mass Layoffs Hitting The Outlet (archive.is)
submitted 1 month ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to c/games@lemmy.world
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[–] commander@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Says bought by parent company of thegamer and gamerant. I associate those with click/rage bait

It's the cycle most gaming publications go through. I don't think even IGN has much of any critical/cultural/marketing value anymore so good luck to any other website

Become games media big and then become more and more a game guide completionist blogspam website and milking a single interview into like 30 articles. Then terminate out as an AI generated articles Google SEO advertising revenue farm putting out articles like, "Has Persona 6 been Announced Yet?" that somehow instead of a yes/no is instead an article of 20 paragraphs saying nothing

[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Forgot the top 5/6/10/25 things you didn’t know about game XYZ pulled directly from some YouTube video. Also applies to Tech news websites.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Quite often they openly refer to Xitter posts as a source for simple game mechanics when the game has come out already. They don‘t even play the games they report on anymore.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

I don’t think even IGN has much of any critical/cultural/marketing value anymore so good luck to any other website

IGN, the EA of games "journalism".

that somehow instead of a yes/no is instead an article of 20 paragraphs saying nothing

That we'll later summarize with another LLM.

[–] noobdoomguy8658@feddit.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

Genuinely, is there a good outlet that's easily available in text that is not like that? Preferably with proper full-body RSS.

Difficult to read about my beloved hobby in this hyper-monetized culture.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Isn't that how most businesses work? If a small company gets successful enough to be big but not so successful that they become the market leader then a big company buys them for their name and customer base.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It rarely works out, but it'd be great if some of the fired staff tried going independent. A couple of my favorite groups managed it after they were fired in similar circumstances.

[–] Twinklebreeze@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Second Wind comes to mind.

[–] pulido -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why exactly do these companies exist in the first place?

Can't anyone make their own reviews and publish them to the internet?

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 month ago

Alright. Let's see you get started. Come along now, chop chop we need reviews for the top 5 games that came out this week