How will the recent controversy effect your media consumption?

[COMaestro]

This "controversy" will not be affecting my media consumption in any way, shape or form, excepting that there's a hell of a lot more threads in forums that aren't worth clicking on. I have read more about the whole damn that I really should have before realizing I had zero fucks to give about it.

 

[Boogie Knight]

Still gonna watch Yahtzee because he's wildly entertaining. I'm gonna wait for Jim Sterling to stop doing intros where he clearly doesn't want to see the big picture because that means upsetting the status quo which has been good to him. At that point I might resume watching his new videos. The comics amuse me, and I'll keep reading them. MovieBob.... it's going to be really hard to compartmentalize his amiable persona in videos while he goes to great lengths to show his brazen contempt for a major portion of his audience.

As for media consumption in general, I haven't read a game magazine in a long time since the ones I liked went kaput. I don't frequent any particular site aside from playstationtrophies.org (and gamefaqs), but that's for help from fellow gamers and not for their opinions on games I already know I'm going to play.

 

[Depulcator]

No change in the slightest.

Why?

Because I simply don't care.

This right here. I'm to busy actually playing and enjoying games to hear the bitching and moaning.

 

[FPLOON]

Well, given how a lot of the websites I never visit anyway kinda made me not change my mind on that, it hasn't changed too much overall... I will say that I have been feeling less in the mood to play any video games the more I read up on it, but that's mainly because I have so much stuff to [actually] read during the fall semester of classes...

Other than that, I would be lying down and trying to relax more... But, I'm in a middle of a role-playing forum game right now... and I might have set myself up for pending disaster...

 

[Erik Zarkov]

If all these folks threatening to boycott various sites actually go through with it, then yeah, my media consumption would go up. But if its the usually all talk and nothing happens then no real change for me.

 

[Eddie the head]

It hasn't really changed at all.

Games Journalism has something I've always kind of avoided, and due to recent events, that will not be changing any time soon.

Polygon, Kotaku, IGN, Gamasutra, etc have always been awful. Badass Digest is a site I never frequented before, because I don't give a shit about movies.

As for how I get my news? Basically it's from youtubers, and it's been that way for a while now. I've been watching the Co-optional podcast for months since it's part of the greater Polaris network, and I watch other content creators that are part of that. Boogie2988 is someone who I admired long before this started, and my respect has only deepened now.

As for the escapist, I'm not here for gaming news. No Right Answer, Jimquisition, and the occasional Big Picture episode are still good. Speaking of that, the only thing that's changed are about MovieBob. I'm done watching Escape to the Movies, and I unfollowed him on Twitter.

Oh, and I might be browsing /v/ more. Maybe.

Pretty much this. I never much cared for most games journalism. So it doesn't effect me much, but I do see why other people are mad.

 

[N3squ1ck]

I stopped going on rockpapershotgun and destructoid, and what hurt the most, I will stop buying the GameStar, my favourite German magazine on games, since they uploaded some shit on their YT, and stop going on their website or youtube channel

Since the Escapist is still employing MovieBob, I shouldn't go here either anymore, I guess, but I'll stay for Jim (thank God for him) and Yahtzee

Also, I unfollowed people on Twitter, quite a few actually, most of which just went completely batshit-"SJW"-insane. Also I follow some other people on Tumblr now and am looking into that boogie guy, somebody who didn't seem to be all that interesting to me before.

So yeah tl;dr: certain sites are a no-no and no more buying magazines for me

Also if somebody knows somebody in the style and integrity of TotalBiscuit please say, I need to watch more content from people like him

 

[Hoplon]

Snipped for rambling bullshit

you keep saying allegedly then saying it's what happened. as for it not being about who Zoe Quinn slept with, check out the start of your hive mind thread before you try claim that. Have a look at the OP calling her a whore every post he reply's too.

No one who's read that shit is going to take it as anything but misogynistic bullshit dressed up as concern about corruption.

 

[TallanKhan]

Pretty much not at all. I always try to read a range of reviews before I purchase a product as even honest reviewers trying to be unbiased will still have their view coloured by their personal preferences when it comes to games. As such the integrity of specific individuals has never been a huge concern to me.