Kotaku EIC Resigns Over New Editorial Edict - Aftermath
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Kotaku EIC Jen Glennon resigned Thursday, citing a deprioritzation of news in favor of guides content at the G/O Media-owned gaming site.
  • William@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Wow. I can’t count how many sites I’ve blocked from my newsreader because I was flooded with “How to find Rupees in Zelda” articles that are so basic as to be ridiculous. At the rate of 50 per week, that’s all you’ll get.

    I actually do like guides like “How to find the secret underground vault and its 3 keys”, but I don’t want them in my news feed. I want them to be there when I search the site or Google.

  • rustyfish@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Hold on? Do I get this right?

    By guides they mean actual guides for games? Like that stuff that I and literally any other person look up on YouTube and go for the shortest video available? Or, in more complex cases, go straight to the Wiki ignoring any other site that is just there to waste my time? Please tell me I am wrong.

    “I’ve resigned from Kotaku and Jim Spanfeller is an herb.”

    Someone give this woman a medal. Fantastic.

    Edit: Forget what I said. They actually mean THAT by guides. It says it in the article, my brain just jumped a paragraph. Derp.

    Oh boy! Let’s see how this will turn out for Kotaku!

  • WillySpreadum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    fta “Kotaku’s staff will be expected to create 50 guides a week at the site.”

    Yeah, I’d quit too. I mean, aren’t they just going to be drowning each other out at that point?

    • ylai@lemmy.mlOP
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      8 months ago

      From my own statistics how many I feel worthy posting/linking on Lemmy, the most direct alternative to Kotaku is Eurogamer. PCGamer, PCGamesN and Rock Paper Shotgun are occasionally OK, but you have to cut through a lot of spam and clickbait (i.e. exactly this “50 guides per week” type of corporate guidance). Not sure if this is also the state that Kotaku will end up in. The Verge sometimes also have good articles, but the flood of gadget consumerism articles there is obnoxious.