Polygon's new owner won't: *Commit to hiring a new EIC *Say if the site will be "rebuilt" with full-time staff or permalancers *Explain why he refused to engage with founding EIC Chris Grant during negotiations *Address Valnet's reputation for exploiting contractors and churning out seo slop - ThreadSky

ethangach.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Polygon's new owner won't:

*Commit to hiring a new EIC

*Say if the site will be "rebuilt" with full-time staff or permalancers

*Explain why he refused to engage with founding EIC Chris Grant during negotiations

*Address Valnet's reputation for exploiting contractors and churning out seo slop

Reposted from The Verge

Polygon’s new owner says it will ‘do what’s right for Polygon’

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policyg.bsky.social•1 day ago

This has been tried dozens of times now and always fails after about six months. Isn’t this just a stupid move purely from a business angle?

korl.is•1 day ago

All the points you hit are important but it's also so transparently untrue that they have any intention of running the site "well". Polygon like any media venture is the people who make its output, not the brand name, so why would you dump almost every one of them if you understood that?

andresplays.bsky.social•1 day ago

Infuriating. Hope people don't engage with it any longer.

hatkidsays.bsky.social•1 day ago

What's right for polygon is for it to be turned into a content mill that tricks people into clicks with SEO focused AI slop. He wants it to be free money. What a fucking travesty this happened. Polygon was a good site.

bento-bongos.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's so transparent that they want us to use buzzwords like the S word (slop) to attract investors like flies. That's how insidious AI is.

letcreate.bsky.social•1 day ago

On the other hand, the new owner *will*:

*Give you up

*Let you down

*Run around

*Dessert you

*Make you cry

*Say goodbye

*Tell a lie

*Hurt you

soaringchris.com•21 hours ago

Minor correction, the former EIC's name was Chris Plante
@plante.bsky.social

plante.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The founding EIC was Chris Grant. I know, it’s confusing. People sent us the wrong emails all the time

danstapleton.bsky.social•17 hours ago

You dodged a bullet. When I started at PC Gamer in 2004 I had to go by DJ Stapleton because they didn’t want to have two Dans on the masthead.

rickyfrech.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I always thought it was because of the bumping electronica tracks you produced. TIL

crankycatlady.bsky.social•16 hours ago

So who exactly is polygon without its workers?!? New owners just suck.

a7h13f.com•21 hours ago

Polygon is dead, bring out your dead. Polygon is dead, bring out your dead *rings cowbell*

kaizo107.bsky.social•7 hours ago

"We think the Polygon brand name* has a lot of potential"

Fixed it.

Ghouls.

fartslam.pro•1 day ago

The name is meaningless without the people who built it, simple as that.

tifosiotaku.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I’m calling for a permanent moratorium on using “slop” as shorthand for “thing I don’t like”.

d9sinc.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I mean, when you end up trying to find info for something about a game and you get a link to Polygon's 5000 word article that just constantly uses buzzwords and makes up things, slop feels too nice.

tauriq.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Disgusting, horrid and unsurprising. Polygon was good because of its incredible editors and other staff. They're all gone. This is a digital corpse haunted by ghosts of engagement.

thunderbutt.bsky.social•1 day ago

The fucking nerve to say that the current focus is on continuity when they just laid off nearly all the staff… infuriating

parismio.bsky.social•21 hours ago

The fuck is a permalancer?

kingsigy.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Someone they keep on freelance while treating like staff. I was that at TheGamer when Valnet hired me and it was bullshit. Any time I brought up pay, I was reprimanded like I was a child.

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