They Just Figured It Out

[@MarvinPowell1]

Alyssa Mercante is an NPC with Main Character Syndrome trying to be the villain.

[@kgjung2310]

An NPC at a irrelevant "gaming" website. Pathetic.

[@rickyrat42069]

@@MarvinPowell1 nah chill with the zoomerisms.

[@MrPotatoPoo]

she’s a “journalist“ for modern audiences

[@ergonaga4949]

No she thinks she is the hero, she has compared herself to Lisbeth Salander(from The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trilogy), that is who shes sees herself as.

[@maddworld3317]

@@ergonaga4949 Maybe she'll have to go back to her old profession of taking on personal clients 🤔

[@SilverSidedSquirrel]

NOTHING OF VALUE WAS LOST

[@khululyp]

kinda Ironic as that show was called 'the critic'

[@beefnleaf]

Completely agree with this. We, as gamers, don’t need their journalist class when we can create plenty of content without them inserting themselves. I’d be okay with their existence if they didn’t use gaming to masquerade their intentions.

[@christopherloyd8938]

​@@beefnleaf Yeah You see? In the beginning of unknown 9 awakening the game Before the trailer was released she did not look like that. Then the trailer You got released and everybody hated it even vera said it. 🤦💯

[@aguidamonster]

Not one thing

[@Segaton]

oh wells!

[@Mac0504]

The writing has been on the wall for years, I dont know why any of them are surprised now.

[@ElGreco15]

They can't read. That's why their articles all look copy pasted

[@TheHalogen131]

Yeah, the "learn to code" meme happened what? 4 years ago? One would think that would wake them up.

[@denkerbosu3551]

Self-gaslighting

[@denkerbosu3551]

​@@TheHalogen131 4 years ago the coof hit. They have told this to Miners back in 2016

[@Mac0504]

@@denkerbosu3551 and they thought the coof, as well as their collective stranglehold on social media/news outlets/entertainment outlets, would last forever

[@stephenw4374]

Gaming journalism has been garbage for at least the last decade if not longer. The younger generations aren't missing out on anything especially because we have KZbin channels like this filling in for that space.

[@MrNorker77]

The "product" that games journalists provided is being provided by someone else now. And I'd argue of a higher quality, integrity and lower cost.

[@sopcannon]

The las t gaming magazine i bought was for the Amstrad 464

Tru, but they block comments from masculine sources.

[@pelinoregeryon6593]

@@stephenw4374 the last time it really existed (in any volume) was back when the computer and games magazines were still printed and distributed in physical form.. so that access to their content had to be paid for, a very straightforward business model that can't be used as successfully online because there are too many KZbinrs and similar fans and "hobbyists" (or "gamers") who'll tell you what they think of a new game for free (barring their add revenue of course for those that are monetised).. difficult to find a way to make the traditional variety of any sort of real "journalism" pay enough to be self sustaining in the current environment.. which may be some of why we end up with so many people with an unconnected axe to grind doing "journalism" of all sorts now.. if it doesn't pay you need another reason to do it and that leaves only two types of people doing it.. those who are genuine enthusiasts of the the thing and those who have an agenda to push and see it as a convenient platform to do it from.

[@pelinoregeryon6593]

.. and those with an unconnected agenda to push seem to be the only ones out of those two that have any reliable potential for outside funding and investment (from activist groups and rich activists to help "push the message"), so of course they tend to dominate untill their funding dries up.

[@raven12333]

They did this to themselves

[@maddworld3317]

Remember the newly revised G4 return with Frosk essentially taking it out not long after its launch? She even admitted that all of them didn't actually play the full games or have time to & that others write it up for them if I remember that correctly. Complete lack of professionalism

[@TIDbitRETRO]

It’ll never happen, but I wish they’d bring back a big-budgeted, legit gaming magazine. The Nintendo Power, EGM, GamePro days were awesome.

[@KishorTwist]

Those mail order ads were tempting as heck! Didn’t have any money then to purchase anything either! 😆

[@turtleanton6539]

With gaming demos😊

[@BIGFELLAH26]

I used to love getting game magazines 30+ years ago, when the journalists actually cared about games. I used to buy the Gameboy magazines, because that's what I had. I didn't have a Nintendo or a Sega Mastersystem like a couple of my friends had, so I didn't buy those magazines back then. Back then, when they used to preview and review they would tell you what to get excited about for upcoming games or what they liked about the current games at the time, they would tell you what they disliked about the game, what could improved about the game, what could could be added to or taken out of the game, their likes and dislikes were actual likes and dislikes, not anything stupid like too much water or the characters are too attractive. In fact they used to call out the ugliness in games, if the backgrounds or the characters were ugly, they would call it out. One thing they would never, ever do was harass, hate on, or call gamers a mistake. In their eyes, if you played and enjoyed games, then you were one of them.

[@MervtheWarlord]

yeah I used to borrow my mates dads PC gamer CD's that came with the magazine and they had all the demos on it! that was a long time ago

[@icepicjoey]

​@MervtheWarlord I remember those cds, great little pc apps were on those cds too

[@MervtheWarlord]

@@icepicjoey haha yeah I remember being 7 and working out like, the icons are just icons and you need the exe to install. and like. yeah worked it out lol

[@Ilyak1986]

I think there's a huge space in gaming journalism that's relatively untapped--namely, reporting on the work of indie studios. It's no secret that it's so hard to get noticed in the geek space. Tons of games being published, tons of stories being written, comics being drawn, etc. How many journalists out there cover that?

[@ORLY911]

Rockpapershotgun used to but they become homogenized with other outlets after GG

[@mawnkey]

If we're being fair then GamerGate started around reporting on indie devs, it just wasn't... you know... the kind of reporting we needed.

[@SotNist]

It used to get some great coverage in the Rev3 era by people who were interested in experimental genre work and individual game dev personalities or scenes, but everyone mocked those kind of editorial personalities as "hispters" then the gamer vs games media war started, which ran a lot of people out of that space, and turned off a lot of the interested audiences. I remember it well. I feel like mostly all we hear about now is everyone pushing the same crossover indie darlings and store tag genre trends that have gotten really samey.

[@OptimisticMisanthrope]

I miss the days of G4 and Xplay, before I knew how insane Adam Sessler was.

[@hhtuttle6326]

@OptimisticMisanthrope dude, go rewatch xplay, I do regularly now and I have to say he is so much more cringe worthy now that we know what we know about him. Shame, I love the irony that Morgan ended up being the more "authentic" gamer though.

[@heavyhebrew]

Adam Cokeler, now that takes me back.

[@jeremy__hopkins]

I always felt there was something off about Sessler. Maybe it was the mixture of angry eyes and slightly pointy teeth that gave off the depressed human shark uneasy feeling. Versus Kevin Pereira who seemed more like a regular host.

[@unk000]

Adam Cesspool... yuck

[@tylercarey2337]

@@jeremy__hopkinswhen I watched as a kid I watched x play and never really liked Adam. His demeanor was always off to me

[@fl1bble]

"We had something great" yeah we did, then 10 years ago a bunch of insane political activists took it over, started insulting, shaming and belittling their audience which completely ruined it to the point of irelevance. So GG, well done, y'all deserve to lose your jobs.

[@heavyhebrew]

no one imagined back in 2008 things would be this way

[@sacredpower7530]

​@@heavyhebrewIm sure there were some people but definitely not the majority.

[@maddworld3317]

@@heavyhebrew It's so sad, I was gaming in the early-mid 90s on junk PC's lol. Such brilliant ip's & innovation to have it all come down to this generic homogonized mess where you're forced to conform to the pack leaders who tell you what to think & accept.

[@Cruelty1633]

7h2y grif72d all yall

[@KratostheThird]

@@heavyhebrew Just look at the games we got in 2008 and compare them to what we have now in 2024. It’s not even close.

[@zhengyingli]

3:55 I can see it starting 15 years ago because the first time I've seen game journos going after gamers is from the Mass Effect 3 ending controversy, which was 12 years ago.

[@harbl99]

Yep. 2014 was just the mask falling off. It was already slipping badly before then.

[@drumyogi9281]

Where did you learn to fly?

[@zhengyingli]

@drumyogi9281 I learned to fly in a sorry excuse for a gaming console called the Jaguar. I escaped it over a decade ago just to be shot at by some guy named James.

[@Mmmhmmm476]

@@drumyogi9281 dang it. You beat me to it lol

[@Parlimant_Strifey]

when Capcom allowed Dante to become sum guy's self-insert....that isn't Dante. Both same year. They didn't like hearing the negative reception.

[@Mulletmanalive]

12+ years they’ve been saying they hate gamers and declaring that they’re on the take and that’s fine. They were corrupt before that and openly political since at least 2010. The major charge beginning cancel culture was around 2012, for reference.

[@Parlimant_Strifey]

with online passes and devs telling you to not own used games. Forms of cancel culture, even then.

[@weirdtower229]

Mainstream destroyed themselves. The IGN reviewer of Wukong, who threw stones and immediately cried victim, and went protected, was the final straw for me.

[@goldosprey]

Did they sseriously try to play victim after their yellow journalism

[@MoreBrainz]

I grew up with EGM and Game Informer and it was awesome as a kid it was my only way to learn about video games. Now they are actively misinforming and attacking gamers man things have taken a weird turn I wouldn't have expected back then.

[@douglasarthur2673]

They’re taking their lead from the studios. Parroting the talking points and pushing the ideology so they can be ‘in the club’. All objectivity has gone.

[@Wokemindvirus89]

According to the lawsuit Alyssa filed, she didn’t leave kotaku she was fired

[@pferreira1983]

She would say that.

[@digit861]

I mean her own words contradict her own narrative all over the place and they have her own posts that clearly says she left on her own merit and reasons until she needed a lawsuit and money and suddenly she was fired due directly to JT😂 it's a mess and doomed to fail

[@odindarkll3706]

It's ironic how everyone and their dog knew that she was fired and Alyssa deflected upon that fact with her life... Until she wants to sue someone.

[@maddworld3317]

@@digit861 I said that from day 1 that she didn't just decide to go on her own merry way ...glad to see that debunked. She was probably causing even more revenue losses

[@Cruelty1633]

@@maddworld3317 sl21ping around

[@jason2mate]

The irony of that tweet, as someone who grew up with OG gaming magazines, nothing is lost from current day "gaming journalists" being fired, current day gaming journalism is basically just free advertising that the Gaming companies dictate the terms of, OG gaming journalism was advertising, but it was people who cared about the hobby, and not paid for PR (and that was evident from the magazines being more about games and less about direct advertising.)

[@spudmaphot]

They were kings of the industry until they decided gamers were over and no longer their audience. This is 100% self inficted and well deserved.

[@goldosprey]

No longer the audience and started to demonize them. When gamers dared to talk back they started to lie to the public and were believed

[@harrymills2770]

There are a LOT of gaming journalists. They're on this and a plethora of other independent channels. YOU guys ARE the media, now.

[@RighteousJ]

It isn't even just gaming media now, either. All the traditional TV channels are losing their viewership and dying out/going bankrupt as well, especially the "news" cable channels now that people understand what massive liars they are.

[@danbauer3669]

The whole industry is based on people being friends with those who compliment the smell of their farts. They do not care about the opinions of gamers. Personally, I'm done with modern gaming. I'll never buy a PS5 or an Xbox whatever it's called. A real journalist would be interested in that. But we don't have real journalists, we have people who compliment the smell of each other's farts, and who look down on anyone who says "it stinks like farts in here."

[@achaudhari101]

Nintendo is still modern gaming.

[@danbauer3669]

@achaudhari101 yeah. I know. Thanks.

[@maddworld3317]

@@danbauer3669 Just look at the recent Game Awards show & who's on the board of deciding which games and companies get their support. Industrialized and lost its originality - I mean look at Ubisoft today

[@Cruelty1633]

blackrock vanguard r 1h2 sup2rvillains

[@achaudhari101]

@@maddworld3317 Why hate Astro Bot winning GOTY?

[@motherurck7542]

When was the RE5 controversy? Oh right, 2009. So yeah, 15 years sounds right.

[@Meilk27]

I didn't know there was a resident evil 5 controversy. Let me guess why.

[@icepicjoey]

The people who grew up hating nerd culture are the ones in the studios and game urinalists now.

[@meta1152]

I miss magazines like EGM where people wrote about games and they were enthusiastic about their love of games. Now they're activists.

[@tapejara1507]

for me it died the day the one guy couldnt get past the tutorial in cuphead. thats where it became obvious they are clueless.

[@TonyMontanaDS]

They did it to themselves. My level of care is non-existent.

[@nicodemous52]

And it has been longer than 15 years. 15 years ago was when some people started to notice, myself included. HOWEVER, it had to be festering in the industry for a while before that. For it to have bubbled up and spilled over like it did, that didn't come from nowhere. We just didn't realize it.

[@KratostheThird]

The RE5 controversy was 2009. GamerGate was 2014. I will actually say the mid 2000’s. 2004 - 2008 to be exact. I have magazines from the late 90’s and very early 2000’s that I still hold. They actually reviewed the games properly back then.

[@GabrielBoorom]

They won't last another year. This is their moment of realization before the end comes. Far too little humility, far too much hubris and absolutely zero awareness. Their awards show is trying to put a smile on their grimace before it comes crashing down.

[@heavyhebrew]

It's that moment as they close their locked car door and see the keys still in the ignition.

[@vladpiranha]

I can only hope that regular "journalism" is not far behind.

[@TrevorZero]

KZbin replaced every gaming site I used to go to, content creators became a better source for gaming news than the websites, which just turned into AAA marketing branches

[@diemes5463]

I feel nothing but schadenfreude

[@heavyhebrew]

want to roast marshmallows and enjoy it?

[@aghs12]

I feel skadefryd 😂

[@pocketmarmots]

Imagine, a "games journalist" accusing others of being "self-important"

[@Hellseeker1]

Modern Game news = Payed off reviews and endless advertising for Chinese mobile games.

[@mramisuzuki6962]

Paid

[@douglasarthur2673]

Saw this elsewhere……..’ 7 out of 10 IGN games journalists gone ‘ 😂

[@thegeth4293]

let me play a tune on the worlds smallest violin

[@SuperBitsandBob]

I've been gaming for 45 years and I have no idea who this O'Dwyer bloke is. Thankfully.

[@lordlazerface5704]

I think the best way to describe the gaming journalism industry right now is to say that it is currently Balkanizing. 8:27

[@kyleclawson8130]

I remember waiting anxiously for my Nintendo power every month. It got me so excited for the new games on the horizon. Sad to see what game journalism has become

[@achaudhari101]

Nintendo Force is the successor.

[@StergiosMekras]

~7:24 Now, I am generally not one to judge others for things they did not choose, but "Bouboukis" (Flower bud, in Greek) is just too funny of a surname for a "he/they" (and the pronouns were, in fact, a choice). On behalf of Greeks (and Grecoamericans, as I imagine Alex is) we disavow.

[@damnedlegionaire]

As one of the younger generations, *AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA*

[@heavyhebrew]

Yeah, my kids would be "Who the f are these people, dad, is this about the frog memes??"

[@ergonaga4949]

Stuttering Craig is my favorite gaming pundit, theres just something so wholesome and authentic about him that I can't put my finger on

[@sourcedecay]

I don't think there's ever been more than two or three games journalists at any given time. All the other people in games writing have always been just op-ed mutants, reviewers, guide writers, or press release copy-pasters. In any case, the fewer IGNs, Kotakus, and Polygons we have out there, the better.

[@Accuracy158]

I don't think people realize how much of a big social club the legacy game journalist space really is until you hear some of the old school guys talking about all their connections and this is basically what makes you valuable in the space.

[@AsakuraYukiko]

Every gamer has trusted KZbinrs for the genre they trust. JPRGs: David Vinc, Kiseki Nut, Eric Landon... I'll NEVER click on an IGN, The Gamer...video.

[@asgads]

it is also a speed issue. I can go to youtube on ANY game from the game awards and find some people talking about it basically asap after reveal. the gaming sites can´t hold up with that tempo

[@shipmcgree6367]

Woke game devs & journos are like vegans trying to work in a butcher shop 🍖😂

[@Steezyjo510]

Honestly the only thing younger generations will miss out on is how fire game informer magazines used to be.

[@madant7777]

Actually it was a little more than 15 years ago (before 2010 if I remember correctly) that journalism turned on the readers. Also, at that same time more than a few gaming talk shows on YT were starting to bash PC and favor consoles, while the studios started to develop more and more dumbed-down games.

[@6hypnone]

I'm so glad I'm gen xer (just barely made the cut heh, year wise. But thank goodness). I can't count how many times I've said that for various reasons... But I was a very young woman when I was subbed to a few pc and gaming mags. So sorry the younguns have no idea what that was like. Monthly mags, demo discs, new mag smell, non biased reviews. Online crap was just beginning so mags were special.

[@Nah_no_thanks]

I hate the industry that I enjoy the labors of.

[@SuperKittyPogoDance]

For written reviews, I go: Score, highlights, full review. But for most video creators, I like to watch first and guess what their score will be at the end.

[@02337755]

SPOT ON about everyone else copying.

[@maddlarkin]

It has been almost 15 years, 2012, Games Journalists turned on mass and supported Bioware in their attacks on the fanbase over the critisim and negitive reaction to the Mass Effect 3 ending at Launch, this was a watershed, even the likes of Yatzhee got in on that dogpile writing a article in the Escapist touting the games as art argument (something he showed his hipocracy with in a video 5ish years later when he admitted the how poor ME3's ending was.) So yeah its been at least 12 years since the games journalists made the choice to prioratise industry relationships over their readership and I can easily see it being 15 with smaller cases I wasnt aware of or actively involed in.

[@phantomh2625]

They wouldn't be useless if they give a proper objective review of games instead of pushing their own politics and making false accusations. In the end everything comes down to character, integrity, and trust, which none of them have and that's why they fail.

[@hamdinger7145]

They need to shut this down

[@MedalionDS9]

Please have RGT back on!

[@xenobreak1160]

My favorite Nintendo KZbinr!

[@khululyp]

@@xenobreak1160 His content is allright but his titles are terrible.

[@WilloftheFans]

Having just reached my first 10k subs, I can say I was right back when I had 10 subs and I said that it's important for any startup Tuber to know that the subject is the draw, they aren't...until they are. And that takes years

[@Imhotep397]

There never has been a such thing as a “Games Journalist” There’s just games media people with their biases creating and information atmosphere that loosely resembles public journalistic reporting.

[@HyakuSh1ki]

I actually think that gaming journalism is stronger than ever, youtubers have been doing quality journalism for a while now.

[@achaudhari101]

Don't know if making 10 videos crying about wokeism isn't exactly "quality".

[@mattallred]

Best day of the month used to be when GamePro came in the mail. Still have my old magazines and flip through them sometimes. Everything was so badass, high-tech, cutting edge and sexy. Every time you opened a new magazine was like looking into the future.

[@Juggernawt]

KZbin and streaming is wide open for anyone with TALENT and SKILL.

[@Simeon2005]

As a truck driver I felt that lol I definitely just play the games in my downtime on my break but I probably buy more games than these “game journalists” 😅

[@TylerWatson-tb8kx]

RGT and side scrollers ?? I literally wanted this to happen for months now 😂 they’re both awesome

[@twiceremoved7339]

We don't have Gamer Journalists. We have Journalists for games. And modern journalists are awful people. It is 100% progressivism's fault. These companies were still doing fine when we all knew that a "7/10" meant that the game sucked. It wasn't corruption that drove us away, because we all could read through it. It's the fact that these journalist companies fkd up the gaming industry with their bullsh*t.

[@Scouserboots]

Times change. Magazines were vital back in the day, not anymore. Gaming sites were vital back in the day, not anymore. KZbin and Twitch are the vital media now for gaming. Not established sites like ign videos, but actual gamers opinions count, and we get to choose who’s choice of gaming matches our own, and I watch many low viewership streamers and it’s refreshing. No slogans to sell, no merch to push, just the gaming experience counts.

[@doloresabernathy9809]

It seems impossible that the largest dollar value entertainment sector in the world would have no media coverage. its like Hollywood but bigger and more technical. Its a fascinating combination of business, technology and art. So there’s a market for genuine journalism about that .. who will serve that market.

[@heavyhebrew]

RGT is a bro, stuttering Craig is everyone's cool uncle, and blabs is a classy lady. No one cares about these losers you guys are talking about, nor their politics anymore. Gamers know that with the demise of triple A gaming, a new golden age is here, brought by new companies and new devs who still want to make games that entertain. They needed us, we never needed them. They act like an insecure ex you broke up with that sees you thriving.

[@achaudhari101]

Blabs says and does nothing. What classy lady qualities does she exhibit?

[@dakota9821]

@@achaudhari101 Remaining silent if she has nothing important to add. Go home, soy.

[@tapejara1507]

gaming journalists arent gamers and arent journalists... they are bloggers for small coin and irrelevant.

[@sixter4157]

There is a difference between having personality and being a personality.

[@MisterMonsterMan]

RGT85 in the house!! Great guest, I hope to see him around regularly.

[@ratnajeetshyamkunwar]

so... what does Blabs even do in these conversations??

[@AlterRaigo]

Game's journalism kind of died about 12-15 years ago. I remember when I used to buy my Gamepro and PC Gamer magazines and I would be informed, instead of judged.

[@quadboy4lyfe]

If developers want to gain the trust of their customers back then they need to let the public play a demo of the game before it is released. I just wrote a comment about this last week about how as a kid I was subscribed to Xbox magazine and every month they would give me a demo disc with the magazine. Each disc had at least 4 or 5 games that you could play and another 4 or 5 trailers for games that weren’t ready yet for play testing. Now you almost never see a playable demo for the public anymore. Why? Because they know their product is garbage, so they need to hide it away from the customers and only allow their most trusted loyal stooges in the media to access it so that they can then go out to the public and lie by saying the game is great and everyone should buy it. If these companies want to see pre order sales go up again they need to allow the public to play a demo but they won’t because they’re all corrupt pieces of garbage now.

[@Manuel_B.]

"this is everything I wanted from a superhero/ Avengers game" - one outlet said on Square Enix Marvel Avenger's... a lot of outlets do this then they do not review their score. and they should have gone back, because it was a live service game.

[@Chattyman2]

Did that Blabs even realize she was in the call with these 2 😅

[@johnsondeng]

Great title. They certainly ave hit the critical threshold for where things can no longer go on the way they think they can.

[@arrgylerawrgyle3784]

Learn 2... Ohh wait...

[@bugtesties]

KZbin is not harder than it’s been in the past maybe way back in the day but the discoverability on the website hasn’t gotten much better in the last 5+ years. Those “writers/journalists” are just lazy and not competent

[@erichthegraham]

Written articles can never compete with a live stream if only by virtue of the fact that you can just ask a question. And videos give you a much better idea than anything short of hands on time. Even the idea of numbered official reviews are kinda out dated, it makes sense on a personal level but as an organization you would want the majority of at least your own team to form some consensus on the review, looking at you DA: Veilguard with your 9 on IGN followed by other articles trying to walk it back. They have their place, but we also have ideas like tier lists that give more nuanced, contextual information that many creators use for a variety of topics.

[@LieutenantTheJackal]

Alyssa Mercante is the Oliver Swanick of the gaming industry

[@Plus_Escapee]

I love the concept of not giving it a numerical value. That's what I liked about ProJared's reviews. He would make a mockery of it by saying "A Master Sword out of 10" or something like that. I always thought that was a major part of his brand.

[@immortallix]

Nice to see rgt stop beating around the bush and join our side

[@therabidscorpion]

I remember, EGM was my go-to, particularly Seanbabys articles. That dude could make me laugh like no one else. I considered him to be the Hunter S Thompson of video games.

[@nicodemous52]

Blabs is kind of looking like Freddy Mercury in this one...

[@CannonRaw]

KZbin is a grind for a majority of people. So if you have that consistency you'll do alright. If you can't maintain it then you gradually fizzle.

[@RazSkull673]

Michael Jackson's pronouns were He/He.

[@jiveespaillat3879]

New to your channel. Blabs didn’t say ANYTHING the entire video. Am I missing something?

[@eudaemxnia2481]

Don't forgive and don't forget until everyone involved in replaced and blacklisted.

[@stuartpatterson5094]

This is the result of alienating your customers and thinking you are above them because "It's my job". And this will have a negative impact on gaming companies as well since if the official media outlets keep getting smaller or shutting down they will have to turn to (you guessed it) the same people they where attacking previously alongside the official media. And those that leave media outlets and try to make it on their own because the outlets are all struggling and can''t take on new people will find little to no success because of the bad reputation they established for themselves whilst working in those outlets and Alyssa is a prime example of this with the various attempts at spreading out beyond Kotaku with minimal results due to the reputation she earned for herself.

[@radandpaisley]

Game journalism has been a joke. Its insane how self-indulgent and cocky people in the sphere have acted.

[@karmicbacklash]

Blabs by name, Blabs by natu-......oh wait

[@ARescueToaster]

As much as I miss the old Funco Land and Game Informer of ~30 years ago, I really want games "journalism" as it is right now to fade away. But I see the problem repeating itself on KZbin and other alternate media. KZbinrs / people get flown out for events, getting luxury treatment, early and free keys, gifts / goodies / "swag", etc. frequently. And it might not sound like a big deal, but I think it is. For instance with Veilguard, a number of KZbinrs didn't get keys because they said some minor criticism about it even if they were overall positive. How many do you think were overly positive for fear of getting treated like that? Instead of these content creator events, why don't companies just make demos instead so everyone can try them? Because then they can't get people to impulse buy stuff that they weren't impressed with or have concerns with. Without journalists or KZbinrs, game companies would need to either start making commercials again or make demos to impress players (which would be far cheaper than commercials). Just my 2c / something to think about with hopes that we can avoid this repeating itself

[@yaboiportch]

Journalism in general is becoming decentralized. It makes sense that video game journalists, arguably the most useless and corrupt of all journalists, would be hit first and hardest by this transition.

[@harbl99]

Oh noooooo. That's just awful. "3...2...1. Let's dance."

[@SotNist]

Ironic that guy talking about reflecting the "average gamer" when Kat Bailey is known for her sports game coverage, which is one of the most popular and financially successful genres out there.

[@EthCirah]

Absence of Value & Meaning (If you know, you know) : Won't be missed.

[@River_Miles]

That thumbnail is right out of my nightmares.

[@rebel4466]

The issue in the grand scheme of things: journalism was too busy with ideology and overlooked change. Print died and they didn't adapt. Just write articles somewhere else.

[@marco.pereira]

The issue i have wirh games journalism is how often times they are biased on their game reviews depending on what publisher published the game. The honesty and integrity has been lost and I no longer bother. I lean on KZbinrs with their one channel who seem more honest and transparent on sponsors. Yup there are some KZbinrs who are also not honest and why I choose to watch a handful I trust.

[@shadowlink20]

As Elon Musk says on X, "You are the media now."

[@Siegdrifa]

Magazines were great in the 90's and early 2000, they degraded (compared to the 90's passion) in 2004 or 2005. In 2015 it was mostly crap, and today it's just a cesspool. So no, the young is not missing anything because the desapoitment started 20 years ago.