Yes, because the site has been seriously mismanaged. Zero Punctuation is on Youtube, pretty much every problem stems from this. Look at the kind of views the latest ZP gets on Youtube, those are all people that are not coming to the Escapist. Heck, most of them probably don't even have any idea that there is even an Escapist to come to!
Back in the day, most people said that Zero Punctuation was what first drew them to the site, and I'd wager that would still hold true for what few people remain.
I just don't understand how management doesn't see this. Their main attraction is on someone else's site, how is that supposed to help them? People don't need to actually come here for ZP anymore and thus the site traffic has been steadily falling ever since 2011. I have numbers proving this, why doesn't management? The forums are a ghost town compared to what they used to be, why hasn't anybody fixed this blunder in the 5 years since it's been made? What the heck has been going through their heads all this time?!
Am I the only one this makes sense to??