Poll: The show the escapist couldn't survive without

[Glamorgan]

While I don't think that it's anywhere near the best show on The Escapist, I seriously doubt it would have gotten where it has, or maintain this number of members without Zero Punctuation.

Though I do think that Extra Credits and LRR draw a significant number of members as well.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Zero Punctuation is what brings 99% of people to the Escapist.
So the site would suffer without it.

 

[brunothepig]

If any, it would be ZP.

But realistically it would take more than one show to kill The Escapist.

Precisely. ZP brings in the most new users, and traffic. It's what brought me here. But it's not like it's the only quality show, and as long as there was still Extra Credits, Escape To The Movies, The Big Picture, Unskippable, and just as important, the news posts, I'd stick around. No, the only reason I (and I presume, many others here) would leave is if it just became a forum. No offense to the community, I love you guys, but yeah. I'd become a very infrequent visitor.

 

[ensouls]

I do like how ONE person said the Escapist News.
You guys can stop writing now

 

[Estarc]

I voted other because I don't believe there is a show that the Escapist couldn't survive without. I personally don't watch any of them anymore, not even ZP. I come here for the news and to occasionally post in threads like this one. While the videos serve to draw people here, they wouldn't stick around and post in the forums and stuff just because of them.

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

It used to be Zero Punctuation, but it could now survive that loss and continue relatively unaffected. If they lost the whole LLR crew, and all their associated series, that would prove to be a much more severe blow to weekly hits and the major slow down of content output would put them back to where they were a couple of years ago. If they lost the forums, that would we devastating

 

[CATS FTW]

It already happened, Doomsday Arcade. *sniffle*

 

[Alex Brucki]

Is the Escapist gonna bring back Game Dogs or what happened to that there was no info given out on the topic.

 

[Lionsfan]

Zero Punctuation. Without it then the Escapist is still a quality website but very few new users would be arriving.

But like others have said it would have to be a mass exodus of shows being gone (Extra Credits, Escape to the Movies, Unskippable, Loading Ready Run, etc etc) to actually "kill" the Escapist

 

[Sentox6]

What this poll should really be is "Could the Escapist survive without Zero Punctuation?".

 

[Paragon Fury]

Zero Punctuation.

If that show dies or leaves, so does the Escapist.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Obviously, ZP. Every time there is a "how did you find this site?" thread, the majority of the answers are ZP.

 

[AgDr_ODST]

I heard it from the mouth of head honcho Russ Pitts that it was the Escapist that caused an exponential increase in traffic to the site

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

I have to say Zero Punctuation, sure extra credits is pretty cool, as well as other shows. But if it wasnt for ZP i would be here right now, and I wouldnt get on as much as I do.

 

[drwow]

I came for zero punctuation,
I stayed for unskippable.

 

[marioandsonic]

ZP was the reason I came to this site.

EC also fascinates me, since I am hoping to work in the video game industry someday.

 

[Konaerix]

Once ZP ends, the escapist will end.

 

[Throwitawaynow]

Obviously, it's the daily drop. Without the pure genius of that show would ruin this site. I don't know how they even came up with the concept, obviously it took some heavy script writing, large scale CG, big name actors.

 

[Lizmichi]

Zero Punctuation is what made this site as big as it is now so losing it would hurt the Escapist. All the others yes would hurt them but not fully kill the site the losing ZP would.

 

[Mordan Freeman]

For now I think it would have to be ZP, but Extra Credits will definitely take its place if Yahtzee ever decides to leave.