Re: Goodbye Game Informer

On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:58:05 -0600, "rms"
<rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:

    - It won't have a print version (well, understandable, given
     the economics of the thing. Still sort of sad to see it
      go, though)
    - Last I heard it won't have the same staff, so it's basically
      just the name being reused

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  Last story I saw said there will be a print version, and the original
staff as well.  I think you're right to question the motives of the buyer
though, just what was the business motivation for this acquisition....

A print version gives me a little more faith. Those things are
expensive and suggest an intention to stick with it, rather than just
a fly-by-night appropriation of a well-known brand. This has the dual
benefit in that publishers are likely to treat them more seriously
than they would some kids-with-a-website.


    [Which isn't to belittle small website journalism...there's
     some good stuff out there if you look. But there's also a
     lot of really shitty web-only 'journalists' out there, and
     the former are often overlooked because of the latter. But
     if you can point to your company and say, "this is a company
     with millions of dollars of investment in it --we can get a
     message out-- you'll get contacts more easily. And who you
     know is a huge part of reporting]

On the other hand, people at the top of the NFT pyramid scam have lots
of money, and can easily throw away tens of millions of dollars
heedlessly... but the sort who get involved in that sort of shadiness
rarely do so without expecting recompense (there's a disgustingly
transactional mindset to the libertarian lot who buy into NFTs and
crypto). So I'll withhold my judgement for a few years as to whether
or not this was a good arrangement.

But at least the original staff got their jobs back.