IGN Are Damaging Gaming
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Published 2024-05-22
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All Comments (21)
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Using YouTube's search bar is fucking nightmare. Half of them aren't related to your search at all.
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YouTube basically replaced all my game media consumption
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Society has too many fucking monopolies
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Googles search engine fuckery has impacted my business ( wine industry) customers cant find our website unless we give them the direct link google is burying small businesses and giving us no way to make a living. How else are we to advertise, we cant just send stuff out in the mail or go bother businesses in person that comes across as low class. Makes it tough.
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Remember people, ya can't spell ignorant without IGN!
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I hate that my gaming 'news' feed is just articles about Reddit posts.
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I accidentally stopped reading any games media a couple of years ago and to be honest my gaming life got a lot better over time. Suddenly new awesome games would just appear out of nowhere and I would not be stuck waiting forever.
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"organizing the web" nobody asked for that google.
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Another thing that's tricky about digital media is that it's not bound by FCC ownership caps like legacy Media. And even those were neutered in 96 for the most part with the telecommunications act.
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This is a problem in every industry, the corporate myth of infinite growth will consume and destroy everything good eventually. It's not good enough to just make a good product or provide a good service anymore, the corporate mindset demands that large corporations aquire and destroy competition, because being the only game in town is the best way to assure relevance. At a certain point, the most cost effective thing to do is buy out competitors.
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Destroy, build, destroy isn’t just a whatever tv show from back when Cartoon Network decided not to have cartoons for awhile; it’s the mantra of venture capitalists everywhere
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I f*cking despise Google's AI BS at the top of my search results.
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"Ex RPS editor Alice Bell" Me with Pikachu face "so here is why there was no podcast last week" ...
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I write freelance but have friends with salaried writing jobs. From what I hear a lot of publications are doing mass layoffs and replacing people with contract writers. Cheaper labor that they can fire at any time.
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So... we're just cool with monopolies in 2024? What's our congress , fcc, and senate doing every day if they arent busting these monopolies up?
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I honestly feel like big gaming journalism websites are kind of out of date.
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"YouTube is becoming a harder place to get noticed on" Bellular it has been that way for the last 8+ years if not more unless you got on YouTube really early on and stuck with it you don't get the growth of some of big hitters Mr Beast, Pewdiepie, Markiplier & Vanoss they have all been on YouTube since very early on 10+ years.
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who would have thought that an overlord controlling the flow of information would be a bad thing?
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As a journalist not to do with gaming (local news). Ai and google will kill the industry. Our teams are barebones, Ai is being pushed and viewership is going down due to Google. Every year there are more layoffs.
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As far as anti-monopoly laws go, if a company is ALREADY the biggest in their field (as long as the field is considered an established field), they should not be allowed to acquire more companies to make themselves even further above the competition. * Established Field - as apposed to a niche field where you are the only one in it. It's not exactly "hurting competition" if no one is attempting to compete to begin with.
