Recent content by Nick Calandra

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    The Escapist Has A New Parent Company (Again), But It's All Good!

    Yea, we have clean-up to do here. I gave up on Enthusiast really fixing anything with the website last year, so I apologize personally for that, but it was just a mental health sink for me to keep making promises that things would get sorted and then not have it happen over and over again...
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    The Escapist Has A New Parent Company (Again), But It's All Good!

    Hey folks, Been a while since I've popped into the forums. Life has just been very busy between work, buying my first house a couple months ago, and then the surprise of news that Enthusiast Gaming was selling off their editorial division to Gamurs, who is now our new parent company...
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    what separates NCOs from the rest ??

    No no, I’m back from Iceland. He’s been emailing all night and I just haven’t blocked because the emails are getting a bit threatening so I’m keeping track of it. It’s just a lot of weird rambling about reporting me for discrimination, having no balls, and lots of other very weird and poorly...
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    what separates NCOs from the rest ??

    Finally came to investigate this after the guy that made this thread has been personally emailing me weird shit for the last two days. Never a dull day in this job.
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    Beta Feedback Thread

    As a note on this, the 2FA has been turned off because of some tech errors with emails being sent out from the forums. Took a while to figure out because people were on vacation. Should be solved for now.
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    Escapist is ranked 6th best Video Game Website

    You do realize the vast majority of our traffic is on YouTube? And we have a Discord with over 2000 members now too that we periodically open to filter more people through. The forums are a tight knit community, but most new people have been in Discord over coming here.
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    Escapist is ranked 6th best Video Game Website

    Still can’t believe some poor saps got suckered into buying that hellhole.
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    A Formal Thread about Activision/Blizzard

    It's not a formal thing. Like I said, that account is what's representing their like stand-in union or whatever you wanna call it, but it doesn't feel like it's run by a professional most days. Most outlets will refer you to that account though to stay up to date with current happenings at...
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    Escapist is ranked 6th best Video Game Website

    I think we're really more in competition with outlets like Kinda Funny, Minnmax, NoClip, Last Stand Media, etc these days over stuff like IGN, Gamespot, Polygon.
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    A Formal Thread about Activision/Blizzard

    It's the Union but not Union of Activision that was providing updates on the whole situation when this stuff first came out. ABetterABK 💙 ABK Workers Alliance (@ABetterABK) / Twitter That being said, the Twitter feels a bit unprofessional to me and it's hard to know what's a real update and...
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    Escapist is ranked 6th best Video Game Website

    Haha as excited as I was to see that list when I first came upon it, it's either old or just something random. And yes, we are on track for our best year yet as V2. We've had substantial growth since we started streaming a lot more and the whole membership model. That being said...I'm...
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    A Formal Thread about Activision/Blizzard

    Sigh. The ABK Twitter posted updates when we were deciding what to do for COD: Vanguard review that certain changes that they wanted made were made. ZP reviews are decided two or three weeks in advance because it takes a week for Yahtzee to play the game, then the video, etc. Based on their...
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    Do you think it's unethical to play a game you already own, from a company that is shitty?

    Jack and I talk a bit about this on The Escapist Show this weekend, but changes at these massive studios have to come from within. 99.9% of people playing Warzone for example probably have ZERO idea of anything going on at Activision Blizzard. Only people that know pay attention to the news or...
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    Year 3 Update Video

    Here's the promised video on our Year 3 update with new perks for members, new merchandise, updates on content and more.
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    A Formal Thread about Activision/Blizzard

    Looks like I was right about expecting an actual response from Bobby Pockets.