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ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 days agoAnd GamesBeat, and Aftermath, and NextLander. I think this is the only way game media survives. The corporate ownership doesn’t appear to work for anything other than the IGNs of the world.
Eldritch@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And I’d question how long it’s working for them at least long term. You’re only an asset until they’re looking for a scapegoat.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 days ago
For IGN, probably indefinitely. They do real journalism and real criticism over there, but their site is also a horrendous challenge to navigate due to ads, and there’s more Star Wars and Marvel on the front page than there are video games. Gamespot follows a similar model, and they’re still under Fandom, and that will probably work out…fine…ish…compared to trying to make Giant Bomb work under that banner.
Eldritch@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It might be a little more tense than you think. There are a lot of real journalism criticism Etc trying to go Indy as well. Mostly in one Niche or another.
When it comes to a lot of scamming cryptocurrency and online things. One could argue people like coffeezilla are the better source to watch than a lot of other sites.
It’s only a matter of time until more people try it. Depending upon their success it could easily spell the end of sites like that. All someone has to do is prove another model viable. Imagine one of the staff from IGN splits taking along some of their contacts with them. And using that to get interviews and leveraging more contacts Etc .
It seems there may be a trend. And as you said there’s a lot of people who would gladly rather frequently site not as dense and slathered in s*** advertisements.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Kinda Funny did exactly that, and IGN still stands taller. But I think that just speaks to how many competitors can possibly follow that same model, because they’re driven by ad revenue and SEO.