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Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic

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Re: Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic

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Post by Nextgrid »

omeze wrote: post #43
Nextgrid wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NFT is bullshit and doesn't address any of the problems that surround content creation. Creators who push NFTs do so either because they are sponsored in the background (paid a lump sum in fiat to engage with NFTs) or have direct involvement in the market and would like to benefit from the (temporary) speculation bubble. That bubble has now died and so will NFTs.

Im discussing in good faith here (and used to watch Giant Bomb religiously back in high school, and remember how the Gamespot \ Giant Bomb schism occurred). There are many creators who use NFTs perfectly well to raise money for their work (like the guy that creates the excellent Blender donut tutorials), and use simple fixed prices to monetize (not auctions, so speculation has nothing to do with it). Please dont be r…

What do NFTs bring to the table that can't be achieved by just taking payments in crypto?

Re: Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic

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Post by celdon25 »

snide wrote: post #21

OG founder of Giant Bomb / Comicvine / Whiskey Media here. I was also at CNET during the acquisition of Metacritic and helped build large portions of Gamespot and TV.com. I'm 10-years removed from these properties so I feel OK talking about them. The sad reality is the Internet publishing is dead and as a business that business is nearly impossible to operate if you have any moral compass. In its place we have variou…

So you were the one who made the shitty knockoff version of mp3.com --after-- the acquisition?

Re: Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic

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Post by djhworld »

rickreynoldssf wrote: post #108
Trasmatta wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I assumed Jeff would peel off with most of the Giant Bomb guys and start something new by now. Not sure if you saw, but Jeff did leave several months ago, and started a solo Patreon.

Oh... I did not know that. I don't follow the site any more. A week or two ago I saw what I thought was a recent clip with Jeff in it. Good for him!

Also Vinny, Alex and Brad left last year to start their own thing (Nextlander)

Re: Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic

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Post by djhworld »

runevault wrote: post #122
ubertaco wrote: post #8

I wonder if any internal rumors of this were part of the sort of "exodus" from Giant Bomb a while back. Even Gerstmann left and is now just doing his own thing solo.

I would be shocked if the Nextlander crew knew a year out. Jeff MIGHT have heard something around the time he left/was ousted (no clue which).

Nextlander guys did a podcast about this, I generally got the impression they were just burnt out from years of building giant bomb and wanted out, this wasn't long after the RV acquisition.

Re: Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic

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Post by drannex »

snide wrote: post #21

OG founder of Giant Bomb / Comicvine / Whiskey Media here. I was also at CNET during the acquisition of Metacritic and helped build large portions of Gamespot and TV.com. I'm 10-years removed from these properties so I feel OK talking about them. The sad reality is the Internet publishing is dead and as a business that business is nearly impossible to operate if you have any moral compass. In its place we have variou…

> How can good content be monetized in a way that allows it to remain independent and not succumb to warping its content to feed that monetization? How can it be audience driven instead?

The answer that every other entertainment vertical/industry figured out 100+ years ago (thousands?) -- merchandise sales.

Re: Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic

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Post by triceratops »

cma wrote: post #137
triceratops wrote: post #96

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> We had one of the largest podcasts in the world and the hosting bills were killing us. If only there were a way to distribute files freely, in distributed, decentralized fashion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

With webtorrent that is feasible, but requiring a client download would just ensure you weren't the largest anymore and probably infect your users with spyware when they downloaded a bad client.

You can provide a link to a known-good client download on your podcast page.

Re: Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic

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Post by blast0rama »

drannex wrote: post #145
snide wrote: post #21

OG founder of Giant Bomb / Comicvine / Whiskey Media here. I was also at CNET during the acquisition of Metacritic and helped build large portions of Gamespot and TV.com. I'm 10-years removed from these properties so I feel OK talking about them. The sad reality is the Internet publishing is dead and as a business that business is nearly impossible to operate if you have any moral compass. In its place we have variou…

> How can good content be monetized in a way that allows it to remain independent and not succumb to warping its content to feed that monetization? How can it be audience driven instead? The answer that every other entertainment vertical/industry figured out 100+ years ago (thousands?) -- merchandise sales.

But do we all need another t-shirt for [thing]? My drawers are full, my walls are covered in art. What next?

Re: Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic

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Post by NoGravitas »

I hate it here. I use a ton of wikis that are on Fandom, and it takes a lot of custom uBlock rules to enforce a bare minimum of usability. The worst victim, IMO, is Memory Alpha (the Star Trek wiki), which has a huge user base, relatively speaking, and used to be run independently.

Re: Fandom Acquires GameSpot, Giant Bomb, GameFAQs, TV Guide and Metacritic

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Post by yamazakiwi »

P5fRxh5kUvp2th wrote: post #127
rickreynoldssf wrote: post #77

I'm an Ex-Engineering Manager at GameSpot & Giantbomb at CBS (2013-2016). All the stuff Dave mentioned was very much the same when I was there. The unit was always in trouble losing money quarter after quarter and focus was always on the ad sales. E3 was the biggest time for revenue and it was stressful in the lead up to it hoping we'd sign enough to keep things going. It got progressively worse each year. Towards th…

> GameFaqs should probably go back to its original owner. I remember when that sale first happened and the owner announced everything would stay the same. He would be running things, his stance on advertising wouldn't change, and so forth. I'm not sure if anyone actually believed that, but from what I recall the original owner (forget his name) said he was making $80/year and the stress levels were way too high. No o…

Personally I stopped using GameFaqs after Gamespot bought them because I was not a fan of Gamespot's reviews at the time.
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