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Prolific Gaming Magazine Game Informer Suddenly Shutters, Lays Off Staff After 33 Years | MMORPG.co
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Prolific Gaming Magazine Game Informer Suddenly Shutters, Lays Off Staff After 33 Years | MMORPG.com
After 33 years, the U.S.'s longest-running video game magazine, Game Informer, has suddenly shuttered, with all its staff laid off.
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Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp?
Remember, I live in a world where juggalos and yugioh players are real things.
I do miss the days when you couldn't wait to get the latest magazine to see new games for the first time. I used to take them into school and show my mates these amazing games too. But you cannot undo the internet, so these days will never return.
I also do think magazines have become so bland in general though as they try to appeal to everyone. Back in the 90s they targeted boys and all had people in their 20's writing for them. So they had lads humour and half naked ladies in them etc etc. Where as now they are just all so clinical in fears of someone complaining.
The games industry is going through a correction and I'm fine with it.
I'm not an IT Specialist, Game Developer, or Clairvoyant in real life, but like others on here, I play one on the internet.
Exactly!
..even this very website, writes the "reviews" or articles like an AI bot.
Yuck!
Reporter: What's behind Blizzard success, and how do you make your gamers happy?
Blizzard Boss: Making gamers happy is not my concern, making money.. yes!
They needed media events, E3 and overall specialized media, they were literally in the budget of game developement.
Nowdays all they need is a youtube channel to self publish everything they need and websites pretty much like this one will just replicate the news for free, with bare minimum effort and without the need of specialized people.
Old fashioned media in game pretty much existed as a marketing tool, there was barely actual journalism being made, just as sites like this. Sites like MMORPG.COM is just a RSS FEED with an interface, there's no journalism being done here, its just scrapping the internet for news as much as Game Informer was, the difference is one had a millions of dollars infrastructure, which needs revenue to operate. The latter can acomplish the same result by a fat man on a basement.
Besides all of this.. I find most of us find a reviewer we like and go to them for our reviews anyways. For an anticipated game we usually go to the websites/content creators we frequent as opposed to a brand new source.
Everyone has their own value systems on what's important in a game and to expect everyone to agree is unrealistic.
The sad thing is we often get the appearance that they are being paid by someone to say and promote certain things....Journalism overall isnt an honest experience anymore...It is filled with agendas.
That's so wrong. Hope everyone lands on their feet.
- Earl Nightingale
The problem usually isn't with reviews, it's that gaming magazines and web sites talk about everything else under the sun and tend to get very political when all we want to hear about is the games. I don't care about some random glorified blogger's (because that's what all "games journalists" are) opinions on industry layoffs or if scantily clad female characters in a game made in Asia is "problematic". Just tell me about the game and if it's worth my time playing. A lot of them, and the the game industry itself, are finding out the hard way that years spent insulting your customers was not the best idea.
Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp?
Remember, I live in a world where juggalos and yugioh players are real things.
You just need to use a little common sense now. Treat the score just like a judge of a sporting event. Throw out the highs and lows and you get the true score from gamers that play the game, not come with a bias one way or the other.
A bias, I may add, that quite a lot of gamer news sites and mags have. Same with steam reviews or any other reviews that have many reviews, you need to throw out the obvious biased ones to get the truth to spend your gaming dollars wisely.
The best days of the gaming mags, was way back when they issued a demo cd along with their reviews, to let each subscriber see for them selves exactly how the game was and if it was something they would enjoy.
Of course, it was not most likely the mags that did away with that. I am sure the game developers that make their huge margins on box, and first day sales, that realized an informed audience was not conducive to their bottom lines.
As always, progress. Not always good for the consumers, but damn, the gaming consumers with their locust like mentality, of consuming content, buying almost every thing released, and believing hype like it was prophecy, and posting it on hundreds of sites, then abandoning the games shortly after, is a self inflicted curse that we now have to live with as well.
- We are talking about gamers here right?
It's truly a shame. I miss the old days of being super excited to try out whatever new demo disc was coming with each magazine.
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People born in this century have literally no idea that a thing called journalistic integrity ever existed, let alone what it meant.
The worm may be starting to turn in general on recent assertions of the suddenly problematic, in more than just video games. Change seems to be afoot.
Journalism today is people spending their lives on Twitter as if it's real life.