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[felipepepe]

Is not for the reviews that we have them, but for having someone to post what's going on in the industry republish press releases.

 

[Multiple Sarcasm]

Give me 1 good reason why do we still have "gaming journalism" in 2016

It pays.

 

[Hyperpube]

Because not everyone dislikes it as much as you do and it's popular enough to stay alive. I don't know what else to say really

 

[Baron Dupek]

Only reason to care is when you're full of adult responsibilities and lack of time that you have no time to search by yourself and someone must tell you what's gut and not.
Plus you don't have good taste and eat popamole garbage like a dinner.

 

[GrainWetski]

RPS is one of the worst, though. Not quite on par with the click bait masters of Kotaku and Polygon, but still a really fucking horrible site with little to no good content.

The reason they exist is because there's a lot of dumb people in this world that can't think for themselves.

 

[racofer]

It sells games.

 

[Darth Roxor]

If you have a serious one, give me a name of 1 gaming journalist that's capable of writing a clearly superior and more in-depth analysis than non-one-liners amateur user reviews.

D. Roxorowski

 

[Mr. Pink]

the games journalism field is so useless and vestigial that it can be safely replaced with single jew posting press releases for free.

 

[hivemind]

Marketing

 

[Delterius]

Inertia

 

[SerratedBiz]

Entropy.

 

[Outlander]

Doritos and Mtn Dew must flow.

 

[Neanderthal]

Tha dunt wanna let all them journalist douchebags out into real world does tha? At least in their little internet safe spaces they're out o way, vomiting their verbal diarrhea at anyone whos got no opinion themsens.

 

[Farage]

Imagine you make a game.
You spent 5 years making it + 100k dollars
Now you want to make people notice you, while there are 200 titles being released per day
What do you do?

 

[Lyric Suite]

Start an adulterous affair with magazine editors?

 

[Riskbreaker]

One good reason?

Sort of folks that write for RPS, IGN and the like: many of them are nerdtards well in their thirties that haven't done anything else of note with their lives, and would probably have a real hard time finding another way to bring some food on their tables if they were to lose their current "gaming" "journalism" jobs.

 

[pippin]

Information is more valuable than gold.

 

[Trash]

Game journalism used to be hobbyists talking about their hobby. Sure, the industry changed but that is still the level of 'journalism' you can expect. Besides, someone needs to collect all the press releases so I know what games there are.

 

[Average Manatee]

Give me 1 good reason why do we still have "gaming journalism" in 2016

It pays.

It doesn't actually, but some gender studies graduates still haven't figured out that the late night drive-through window at fast food joints both pays better and is a higher status occupation than what they are doing now.

If it actually paid decently we'd have some decent people doing it.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

To keep Leigh Alexander out of pr0n?

 

[Azrael the cat]

Give me 1 good reason why do we still have "gaming journalism" in 2016

It pays.

It doesn't actually, but some gender studies graduates still haven't figured out that the late night drive-through window at fast food joints both pays better and is a higher status occupation than what they are doing now.

If it actually paid decently we'd have some decent people doing it.

This. It's stuck in the trap where there isn't enough pay to attract/keep good professionals, whilst nobody wants to give them more $$$ because they aren't good professionals. There's no way that is going to be broken anytime soon on the 'consumer contributes' end, and I don't see a business model that will change it.

Right now, games journalism is one of those industries that specialises in exploiting young graduates who are semi-dependent on their parents, by offering them student-job pay and then telling them that they're 'making a difference'. I wonder whether a lot of the bullshit currently in gaming journalism would go away if they didn't need to justify to themselves/friends/family who they're working a job for such low pay. If anything, it would have been easier when gaming was a nerd niche - at least then, you could claim some crazy 'I'm doing my dream job' obsession.

 

[Siveon]

It's good filler for my RSS Feed.

But the best write-ups, editorials and the like are done by random joes. I don't expect gaming "journalists" to provide anything more than a title that pretty much explains everything.

 

[sser]

How else am I to get hookers and blow?

 

[oldmanpaco]

I assume its so consultards know what to buy.