Thanks for the confirmation Archon. To put to bed some of the other rumours, would you mind clarifying whether there's any current plans to merge the Escapist and the other Defy Media gaming websites?Archon said:We made some tough decisions yesterday that impacted several staffers from The Escapist, GameTrailers, and GameFront. The contributions of the talented writers and editors we had to let go will definitely be missed. However, all of the properties are continuing to serve the gamer audience going forward. Here at The Escapist, Josh Vanderwall, the managing editor under Greg Tito, will be taking over as the new editor-in-chief. Look for his first editor's note, re-introducing himself to you all, later today.
I vote we go somewhere entirely unrelated to games, like a fly fishing forum, and warp it into Escapist 2.0Eclipse Dragon said:If this site goes under, I feel sorry for the poor, unsuspecting forum we're going to swarm. It will be great, they'll get all these new users and their population numbers will increase substantially and they'll celebrate the increase, then darkness will fall and we'll start demanding sources be cited and that will just be the beginning.Ryallen said:This is the only gaming website that I actually visit regularly. I honestly don't even know what I would do if/when this website goes under. Jeez.
On a side note, PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE HERE. i'm afraid...
It's speculation. All of those properties are aimed at gamers, but each of those properties does different things in different ways for gamers. The goal is to have the sites support each other at each doing what they are best at. So look to see an intra-site re-focusing combined with inter-site cooperation.Fappy said:Is a merger in the cards or is that just speculation? I assume it's not if we're getting a new EiC for the Escapist itself.
I think I have a better picture for what's going on now. Thanks for the update!Archon said:It's speculation. All of those properties are aimed at gamers, but each of those properties does different things in different ways for gamers. The goal is to have the sites support each other at each doing what they are best at. So look to see an intra-site re-focusing combined with inter-site cooperation.Fappy said:Is a merger in the cards or is that just speculation? I assume it's not if we're getting a new EiC for the Escapist itself.
While the notion of creating walking tanks with howitzers seems awesome, actually we will have tanks, infantry, and howitzers, and they will work together in a combined-arms task force. This metaphor seems sensible to me but I have been watching a lot of Robotech lately.
Fly Fishing Enthusiast: I caught this fish, I tell you it was 600 pounds!SonicWaffle said:I vote we go somewhere entirely unrelated to games, like a fly fishing forum, and warp it into Escapist 2.0
See my post above. The current plan is for each of the properties to retain an independent existence.JoJo said:Thanks for the confirmation Archon. To put to bed some of the other rumours, would you mind clarifying whether there's any current plans to merge the Escapist and the other Defy Media gaming websites?
OH YEAH!Teoes said:That lemonade looks suspiciously like Kool-Aid. Ermagerd, you haven't been drinking it have you?!SonicWaffle said:On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for all things drops to zero.sky14kemea said:Why does every forum I join ultimately crash and burn?
Plus, you smell.
OT: OH NO! If the Escapist goes, what shall become of my arbitrary numbers? My post count, my join date, my only true measures of worth in this confusing life! Oh god, what about my badges?!
Probably nothing. I doubt this is the end of the site, just a reduction in content, and I come for the forums anyway. Let's all have a nice, refreshing glass of lemonade and chill out.
Alternatively, this is the apocalypse, and it's all down to those evil/heroic trolls/GamerGaters hounding away/rescuing the site from ordinary/corrupt journalists/SJW stooges. Choose your own adventure!
Seriously guys, can't we all just get along?!Davroth said:Maybe I would. Not that you'd know.Colour Scientist said:Haha, oh you.Davroth said:Goes to show you don't know the first thing about what I want, and it's rather creepy that you insinuate to know what I want.Colour Scientist said:Why not stay here then?Davroth said:Seems like a great place if you are firmly set in the anti-GG mindset.DeadpanLunatic said:I recommend the Idle Thumbs forums. Settled in there when the Escapist became infested with GG nonsense.Zhukov said:Anyone know of a good geeky forum? Healthy population, decent moderation, minimum of bitter conspiracy theorists?
Looks like a good place to get banned within a week for having 'opinions'.
With a lot of the pesky SJWs out of your hair, you'll be able to have the beautiful, uninterrupted echo-chamber utopia you've always wanted.
Yay!
You big joker, you.
I think we both know that you'd really miss me if I left.
But that's really besides the point. I would very much mind if the Escapist becomes a GG echochamber, Echochambers are by their very nature cancerous and stifle constructive discussion. I've seen way too many examples of that, and the forum linked looks a whole lot like an echochamber. If this site dies as a neutral ground, I'd rather just not join a new site altogether. I've had enough of people calling me a misogynist because I find the current status of games journalism abhorrent and think that it's going to harm the future of indie games in particular, which happen to be pretty much all I play. So as much as this might be a loosing battle, I likely wont stop fighting it.
Not that you'd particularly care about any of that. Have fun in your new echochamber, if you choose to leave. For what it's worth it doesn't look like the worst echochamber one could choose.
That's right, ban all the opinions and viewpoints you don't like. That's pretty much GamerGate's goal, isn't it.Eri said:Why? Because they were huge SJWs and the higher ups got tired of dealing with their crap.Story said:Thorn14 said:https://twitter.com/Gregtito/status/557595806329749505
Sounds like a mass firing.
But seriously I wish them all the best. I really do wonder what this means for The Escapist and why this is happening.
Escapist: I don't even understand why anyone would fly fish. Clearly everything was superior in the old days when we spear fished. Modern fishing is a travesty. Thanks for killing my hobby, fishing developers!Eclipse Dragon said:Fly Fishing Enthusiast: I caught this fish, I tell you it was 600 pounds!
The Expo was already dead. Notice how we didn't have one in 2014 XDDandres said:On another note, it looks like no more Escapist EXPO's, man those were fun.
Yes I noticed, I was hitting up the staff months in advance to see what was going on with it & was told nothing was no EXPO that year, then at last minuets notice that regional video game festival I would have gone because I like the area but it was to short of notice for me.Fappy said:The Expo was already dead. Notice how we didn't have one in 2014 XDDandres said:On another note, it looks like no more Escapist EXPO's, man those were fun.
Apparently there was some regional video game festival in the Escapist's hometown instead.
........So can we still get Greg in that little box to do podcasts?Archon said:We made some tough decisions yesterday that impacted several staffers from The Escapist, GameTrailers, and GameFront. The contributions of the talented writers and editors we had to let go will definitely be missed. However, all of the properties are continuing to serve the gamer audience going forward. Here at The Escapist, Josh Vanderwall, the managing editor under Greg Tito, will be taking over as the new editor-in-chief. Look for his first editor's note, re-introducing himself to you all, later today.
I see Gamergate blamed for pretty much anything these days. At this point Taco's Law is just the new Godwin's Law.PsychicTaco115 said:Huh, I guess it is true that all threads will eventually end up bringing up GamerGate
We should call this something...
Taco's Law
Patent/Trademark/Copyright Pending!
Even if that was true, that's frankly not a good reason to loose your job over. Specifically if that job includes writing opinion pieces which is what a journalist sometimes does.Eri said:Why? Because they were huge SJWs and the higher ups got tired of dealing with their crap.Story said:Thorn14 said:https://twitter.com/Gregtito/status/557595806329749505
Sounds like a mass firing.
But seriously I wish them all the best. I really do wonder what this means for The Escapist and why this is happening.