As someone who consumes a ton of YouTube content, it drives me up the wall that so many YouTubers feel almost obligated to take potshots at games journalists. “Can you believe IGN finally gave Sonic a good score? Not that IGN has any credibility!” Then why bring them up if they’re so irrelevant?
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Why are you so hostile about some dumb game journal that was probably written by AI or in less than a day
like, just own it dude..
and you know its mostly dudes.
Remember "too much water"
To this day they still use that clip for games journos bad jokes.
A review from 4 years ago by one guy ? Yeah that represents the entre game reviewers
He represents the entire game journalists
Journalists, including those in the videogame arena, have shifted too far from being sources of information to sources of activist opinion. (Or the worst offenders- rageclick/bait.)
Most recent examples: Thegamer/Polygon with Aether Current guides in FF14.
Meaning somewhere, sometime, there was one video that got popular and now the rest are just hoping to cash in on that.
I saw this with BF2042, all the big names saying how glorious it was. In end its the poor gamer that loses.
Not that anyone's opinion is more or less credible in a subjective medium industry, but that's the world we live in 🤷
Pissing people off draws clicks, simple as that.
So “IGN has opinion” is absolutely expected conclusion when you read something on their website.
I work as a game journalist myself and know that many of my colleagues don‘t share the same opinions as me. I‘d give Far Cry 6 a 3/10 while a co-worker of mine might give it a 9/10.
And if something is posted on the company website it’s their responsibility(with reputation risks) irrelevant of “opinion” or “sponsored” tag.
So, to sum up: you don’t own your article if you post it from your employer page. They own it. And risks.
People like you think „IGN has opinion XYZ“ when it‘s literally a person writing the article. When I write an opinion piece, it is my opinion. Not my employers.
Your conclusion is wrong.
Whatever posted on IGN - their responsibility. I will not remember if it was your name or your colleague (actually, I know only Jason Schreier name😁) - it is IGN.
Whenever k search a game online, looking for guides or reviews or whatever, I find either nothing at all or a dozen AI "articles" or other slop trash that just repeats the same stuff as all the other "articles"
I think years of bad faith reviews where the writer clearly doesn’t know a ton about the series led to this
Stereotyping youtubers in a thread pointing out a stereotype giving to games journalists is very counterproductive.
It was a "make some silly content or none at all" situation. They only had a non game reviewer at Gamescom so either they used who they had there or got nothing.
And then gamers™ went all looney like.
Keep using gamers as an insult, retard, that's where the money is that's is the target audience and why so many are losing Jobs and money... Ask Bioware, or Rocksteady. Gamers* put food on their tables, at least used to.
The person playing the tutorial was a business/tech reporter, not a game journalist. He was the only person at Gamescom, that's not an excuse, that's facing reality. It was either that or nothing.
The fact that people got mad about it is simply silly.
I’m not saying no one in my field has ever screwed up, but it’s a bit much!
They've done a lot and it's disingenuous to pretend they haven't. The hostility isn't there for no reason
It’s a boogeyman for them to justify hating games journalists simply because critic and consumer opinions don’t always align
The reason this is believed is outlets tend to give great reviews to AAA titles that are suffering from massive issues. Reviews often at odds with user reviews.
People notice the mismatch
If it's not true, then it's on games journalists to show that with good journalism.
Until then, the pattern is clear to everyone, which is why you've got hostilty
Still, IGN gets around ~1.7 billion views a year. That’s a LOT of eyes.
You also see any negative reviews derided as attention seeking, so it seems people just don't like journalists.
It's reflexive. It seems like the smart position to take and requires no nuance so the average guy takes it. There's very few cases of "editorial compromise".
Shit is exhausting.