Robert Rath's "Critical Intel" column leaves The Escapist

[fix-the-spade]

honest question...does anyone else suspect the recent exodus of site producers (sans jim..but even then) was "politically" motivated? that escapist is taking a more...shall we say "GG friendly" stance?

I think that given their buyout then subsequent merger last year, the reality is that it's motivated solely on the grounds of reducing costs.

Pretty much all content creators are employed on an ad-hoc freelance basis, getting rid of them is as easy as refusing to pay more than half their current rate from now on. Given how extremely rapidly all these people are leaving and how abrupt everyone seems to be I'd assume that's the situation.

Anyway, yet another sad loss for the escapist, I've read loads of critical intels over the last couple of years.

Begs the serious question, who next and when.

 

[Paradoxrifts]

Mr Rath was an elegant journalist for a more civilized age. Unlike some of the dead weight the Escapist has thrown overboard, he will be sorely missed, at least by me.

 

[shiajun]

The Escapist is almost dead to me now:

Lisa Foiles: gone
Extra Credits: left and did their thing
Robert Rath: gone
Miracle of Sound: gone
MovieBob's comic/movie reviews: gone (or at least, gone to patreon)
Susan Arendt, Greg Tito, Paul Goodman, etc, etc (e.g. most of the staff that I liked): gone
Shamus Young: not gone yet, but it might just be a few weeks before that happens

So, I'm only here for Yahtzee's things/Feed Dump/Unskippable

The news now seem like random aggregators, it's been more than a week since something caught my eye that I hadn't read somewhere else already (with a better write-up). Reviews have been tanking in quality and diversity for a looooooong time. No more freelance articles about anything at all.

Forums are far away from the joyous, creative place the were when I first came to this site.

Yep. Escapist on life support, and erased from my bookmarks. I'll just come by one day a week and catch up on those four things I like that are still here. Sad to see this happen.