Escapist is ranked 6th best Video Game Website

[gorfias]

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Escapist is ranked 6th best Video game website!

Like the song goes, it doesn't change a thing but even so, ... it's nice to know!

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

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Escapist is ranked 6th best Video game website!

Like the song goes, it doesn't change a thing but even so, ... it's nice to know!

The fact that a bunch of cash-in websites are ranked ahead of it and that this is still just a shallow popularity contest makes the list seem trivial at best, but I suppose it’s nice to know the site is gaining recognition.

Also, Gametrailers is still a thing?

 

[Leg End]

Also, Gametrailers is still a thing?

Not as it's own website, which kinda tells you a few things. Joystiq and Gamefront are up there too. While the latter does have video and article updates, I'm pretty sure none of the videos are original and it's literally one guy writing the articles, and those might be bits grabbed from somewhere else. Their forum also seems to list Discord users in it's online section.

But hey, we beat some corpses. Even if we have a spy from GameFront in our midst. You know who you are.

 

[Piscian]

Truthfully I dont even have a list of gaming websites I like. This is literally the only site I visit other than the accidental clickbait from kotaku. My relationship with gaming is such that any gaming news I hear is largely word of mouth because so many games come out anymore it's just an information overload to seek out news. I like the escapist show because it's unpaid casual ramblings about gaming as apposed to be pummeled with gaming news by people paid to let developers sit on a couch and pitch their games.

I listen to escapist reviews, escapist show, and Modern vintage gamer. Thats it as far as my gaming news goes.

 

[Drathnoxis]

By some site I've never heard of, great. If the Escapist is so highly rated how come the forums are still a borderline ghost town and our only new members are bots?

 

[EvilRoy]

By some site I've never heard of, great. If the Escapist is so highly rated how come the forums are still a borderline ghost town and our only new members are bots?

According to the preroll ahead of some videos the escapist is apparently on track to have it's best year ever. I assume that's an all-time record as opposed to a v2 record but I don't know for sure. Either way it's impressive given the competition from not only other news sites but also YouTube/twitch exclusive groups.

As far as the forums... I have a lot of long running sites in the bookmarks and most of them either removed the forums and went discord exclusive or just left the forums to rot with even less activity than this forum. I think forums just aren't part of how people use sites like this anymore.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

According to the preroll ahead of some videos the escapist is apparently on track to have it's best year ever. I assume that's an all-time record as opposed to a v2 record but I don't know for sure. Either way it's impressive given the competition from not only other news sites but also YouTube/twitch exclusive groups.

As far as the forums... I have a lot of long running sites in the bookmarks and most of them either removed the forums and went discord exclusive or just left the forums to rot with even less activity than this forum. I think forums just aren't part of how people use sites like this anymore.

It might be that most people can only handle bite sized information now and their AD/HD attention spans demand instant gratification that places like Discord seem to cater to.

 

[BrawlMan]

The fact that a bunch of cash-in websites are ranked ahead of it and that this is still just a shallow popularity contest makes the list seem trivial at best, but I suppose it’s nice to know the site is gaining recognition.

Also, Gametrailers is still a thing?

That does not make any sense, because GameTrailers is Easy Allies now.

I don't care about some dumb populated list. As far as I'm concerned with this forum and website, you're my number one.

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[TheMysteriousGX]

I mean, I think the main issue is that most other gaming "websites" are archives for articles on social media and YouTube.

Like, on the off chance I visit a gaming website, it's either because I'm looking up a specific video game walkthrough thing (and ign has terrible SEO for that), or I'm clicking a link of Twitter

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Even if we have a spy from GameFront in our midst. You know who you are.

Spy sappin' mah Escapist!

 

[Fallen Soldier]

Congrats Escapist!

 

[Gyrobot]

Thanks Yahtzee for holding it down for all of us.

 

[EvilRoy]

It might be that most people can only handle bite sized information now and their AD/HD attention spans demand instant gratification that places like Discord seem to cater to.

Eh I dunno. From where I'm sitting Discord is just mIRC with a new coat of paint and some much needed functionality. I attribute the decline of forums more to the fact that they're very disconnected from content now. Used to be forums were the only good place to talk about something just posted. Now you can comment on Discus, you can go to Discord, you can write a comment on Youtube and so on and so forth. You don't need to log into a forum, find a topic, write a post, and have nobody read it or get instantly banned anymore. You can just yell into the void and move on with life.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

According to... what the hell is "ebizmba"?

 

[Nick Calandra]

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 biased, but I think we have the best content, best team and best community out of all the current gaming outlets. May not be the biggest, but we have the most fun and the friendliest community.

 

[Silvanus]

Congrats, Escapist. It's certainly better now than during the interregnum.

It's not a very competitive field, though.

 

[Nick Calandra]

Congrats, Escapist. It's certainly better now than during the interregnum.

It's not a very competitive field, though.

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.

 

[Mister Mumbler]

Congratulations

 

[Leg End]

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.

Baby steps. Turtle in the back until we can sneak up on Gamespot first. But you have my thanks for not letting the forums become ResetEra.

 

[Nick Calandra]

Baby steps. Turtle in the back until we can sneak up on Gamespot first. But you have my thanks for not letting the forums become ResetEra.

Still can’t believe some poor saps got suckered into buying that hellhole.