Unfortunately I don't think I read any of his columns while he was here but feel I should at least check them out. Your best of list is much appreciated. Cheers!Thunderous Cacophony said:-snip-
Unfortunately I don't think I read any of his columns while he was here but feel I should at least check them out. Your best of list is much appreciated. Cheers!Thunderous Cacophony said:-snip-
Same here. At this rate, may have to branch out and find more sites to visit at a regular basis.COMaestro said:Man, the content here just continues to bleed away. I really enjoyed all of Rath's columns and was definitely a large draw for me. So at this point there's just Yahtzee, Critical Miss, and Experienced Points that I primarily come to the Escapist for, in addition to the forums. Getting kind of thin...
This seems far, far, far more likely than any political motivation. Far more likely.Soviet Heavy said:My best guess is that the Escapist's cutbacks to their staff also means they can't afford to pay content producers. It's certainly not the first time it's happened. Extra Credits worked for peanuts for a few months when the Escapist was in financial trouble, and more recently, the D&D with Porn Stars people were going to do more I Hit it with my Axe apparently with a reduced budget (before they said no and refused to work with the Escapist after they hired the transphobic guy).
Site bleeding money, company owners downsizing and cutting costs, the content producers are the first to go after staffers.
Oh, I hear you. I'm sure we can all do with a little less salt in here.Jake Martinez said:I really support this idea. Anyone who is really unhappy with a website should stop visiting it. I did that months ago with Kotaku and I'm a far happier person because of it.Davroth said:Step one would be not to come here anymore. No matter what you do, your presence here helps their metrics. If you really want to show them, leave, and then email advertisers.MarsAtlas said:Yeah, would we should be doing is emailing all of the advertisers and telling them that they're hiring unethical journalists! That'll show them!
After reading many of MarsAtlas's posts over the last few days I would suggest that he/she/it/other may be much happier taking up permanent residence on Tumblr.
Here is a great and informative video on how to get started:
Well, I'd say that the Escapist being pretty much single digits numbers of sites that didn't outright censor GG talk like pretty much everyone else. I don't personally know of Robert Raths' work but from what people are saying in his thread he didn't seem to have the issue of covering basically the same thing over and over before leaving like Sterling. Or a history of getting into online insult matches like Bob.Vault101 said:I wasn't exactly clear where escapist "stood" on GG (pre exodus) and didn't really care...but from what I can remember it was a sort of appeal to the "neutral" side while still courting GGer's?IceForce said:It's possible.
And by that I mean, it's possible there are likely a number of (now former) content creators who wanted to distance themselves from GG, and have therefore decided to distance themselves from this site to achieve that.
Don't know, but with Jim and now Moviebob gone I am only really here for the forums and ZP. SO sad to see Escape to the Movies gone as well as Bob's stuff about old TV shows, movies and comics. Turned me onto a lot of gems I was not aware of.Vault101 said: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 wouldn't say they court GG. I know Tito had a hand in helping GG have discussions here. I don't think it was courting them so much as showing good faith in letting GGers talk. Plus, it helps make the Escapist not a target. Attacking a place that gave you shelter is sort of a shot in the foot in my opinion. This place has seemed to be pretty neutral though in all of it which is nice.Vault101 said:I wasn't exactly clear where escapist "stood" on GG (pre exodus) and didn't really care...but from what I can remember it was a sort of appeal to the "neutral" side while still courting GGer's?IceForce said:It's possible.
And by that I mean, it's possible there are likely a number of (now former) content creators who wanted to distance themselves from GG, and have therefore decided to distance themselves from this site to achieve that.