There was a time when I came to The Escapist every day, not only for it's news, but because it always had some new piece of content. As I recall, Tuesday was The Big Picture with Movie Bob, Wednesday was (and continues to be) Zero Punctuation, Thursday was Extra Credits, and Friday... Friday was Top 5? Right?
I long for those shows, some have moved, either to other sites or the abyss, but all were consistently an entertaining way spend a few minutes thinking or learning about something interesting. This is in addition to the numerous other shows and comics that frequently filled out all those grey boxes on the schedule. (Yes, there was a time when that whole calendar down there was FULL!)
I also remember back when the Escapist had writers who would create entertaining articles and thought pieces about games and game culture. They'd keep me coming back week after week for interesting, fun, informative content. And even after they changed formats to be more news focused, they at least kept their news column populated with up to date news. Now the Escapist seems to focus on neither, and the news feed seems nearly vestigial.
It raises the question, who here misses what The Escapist once was? Who here would be so glad if they would once again invest in themselves to become what they once were? If Rooster Teeth can still be kicking out videos and going strong with new content 15 years after they first started, why can't The Escapist?
Some day, Yahtzee is going to stop. He's going to decide he could do better elsewhere and move on to greener pastures. If he did that today, the Escapist would loose a full third of it's non-twitch content. That'd pretty much spell death for them.
Who wants to see the Escapist come back and actually be a force in games journalism and content? To see interesting and varied shows here once again? Who wants comics? Who wants new things? Who thinks that there are hundreds of shows out there that the Escapist could do and yet doesn't? Remember There Will Be Brawl? Remember Unforgotten Realms? Remember all those meh quality shows that weren't the best but at least were new? What happened to those? Why can't we have those again?
I long for those shows, some have moved, either to other sites or the abyss, but all were consistently an entertaining way spend a few minutes thinking or learning about something interesting. This is in addition to the numerous other shows and comics that frequently filled out all those grey boxes on the schedule. (Yes, there was a time when that whole calendar down there was FULL!)
I also remember back when the Escapist had writers who would create entertaining articles and thought pieces about games and game culture. They'd keep me coming back week after week for interesting, fun, informative content. And even after they changed formats to be more news focused, they at least kept their news column populated with up to date news. Now the Escapist seems to focus on neither, and the news feed seems nearly vestigial.
It raises the question, who here misses what The Escapist once was? Who here would be so glad if they would once again invest in themselves to become what they once were? If Rooster Teeth can still be kicking out videos and going strong with new content 15 years after they first started, why can't The Escapist?
Some day, Yahtzee is going to stop. He's going to decide he could do better elsewhere and move on to greener pastures. If he did that today, the Escapist would loose a full third of it's non-twitch content. That'd pretty much spell death for them.
Who wants to see the Escapist come back and actually be a force in games journalism and content? To see interesting and varied shows here once again? Who wants comics? Who wants new things? Who thinks that there are hundreds of shows out there that the Escapist could do and yet doesn't? Remember There Will Be Brawl? Remember Unforgotten Realms? Remember all those meh quality shows that weren't the best but at least were new? What happened to those? Why can't we have those again?
