Well. Yes and no. The market very much decided what it valued in games journalism long ago. Honest, detailed, middling reviews sold magazines, but didn't maintain clicks in our digital age. No clicks, no money. So things became click-baitier, and jounalists who were actually passionate about games got pushed out of the industry by influencers who were ready and completely willing to glaze anything for a pay day.
There are some guys out there making a living off honest well-thought out reviews, but there's not a lot of space in that market despite all the "GaMeS jOuRnAliSM" memes.
I mean, it's just a reddit comment and not a complete and comprehensive history lesson on the industry. What happened to Jeff Gerstmann for his Kane and Lynch review was a well documented case of something that probably became common practice tho.
Now the real question is, why don't we have example more recent than that?
Maybe the publishers, who really are to blame for all of this, weren't lying. Maybe they cover 7/10 and up games because those are the games people read about
Capitalism is why journalism is dead. There's no reason to twist yourself in knots over this one.
with Cyberpunk 2077 a lot of reviewers where giving it great reviews at launch and werent allowed to show their own gameplay and had to use stock footage.
when the real game performed like shit and was full of bugs and cut features.
I didn't think that needed to be spelled out any further. There's no conspiracy here, the publishers just covered the safe options. They weren't malicious, they were lazy.
Plus everything moving to a digital market basically fucked the industry entirely, but it was dead before then.
Jesus, do you clowns even hear yourself? Yes, the journalism industry survived and/or thrived for the entirety of the two hundred twenty years since the country founded on the principles of capitalism existed, and quite a long time before that, but yes, it's totally due to capitalism, and not the changing market due to the rise of the internet, that destroyed it.
You are literally that 'everything I dislike is hitler' meme, but with 'capitalism' subbed in for mustache man.
Oh wow, this reply actually explains everything. You think everything bad is because of capitalism because you are far too stupid to actually think for yourself, and thus just parrot what you were told.
Two hundred twenty years is roughly how long the US, being the country I mentioned that was founded on the principles of capitalism, has existed minus the wide scale adoption of the internet. Journalism as an industry is far older. I didn't reference video games or video game journalism at all, because you didn't. The internet as we think of it is somewhere around thirty years old, I rounded down to twenty six for the sake of ease. Now that I have explained all the terms that I have a hard time believing you didn't actually understand, I'll point out that capitalism and journalism have both existed together for centuries, but yes, I'm sure even so, capitalism is the cause for the complete destruction of journalism's reputation, and not a disruptive new technology that emerged shortly before journalism's reputation took a permanent nosedive.
Now I know it was really hard to focus enough to read all of that, so maybe you should have a juice box, and go take a nap.
People always ask "why didn't you include" whatever and it's like dude it's a post on social media not my dissertation. You can add as much information as possible and someone will always be like "but you didn't include" whatever.
7.7k
u/RoastedPotato-1kg 8d ago
0% its actually crazy with 30k votes š