Can’t argue with that. Would also be nice to have people passionate about gaming and not so patronizing or jaded with the industry or trying to push politics and agendas.

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Yeah, the last thing we need is more "game journalism". Hard pass.

Games are made purposely to try before judging them , vg journalism goes against that , they try to put words in your head and p you o before you start thinking about it , they have it's not what you think mentally, this is not professionalism, the way they do it especially in reviews is beyond 5th grades stupidity.

Affiliate marketing killed journalism. You just have to be a half decent clickbaiter and paraphrase someone else to earn a living as a 'journalist'. The days of investigating, interviewing and having a bunch of sources to create an original and credible article are long gone because that's not what brings in the money. Hundreds of poorly written, click-baiting, quickly published articles is where the money is.

I cant even say i have a reviewer/site i follow anymore for games, haven't for a few years actually. Best i can think of is easy allies. I usually just wait till i see enough raw gameplay to make my own decisions, if that means waiting a couple days past release, no biggie. In most cases i can figure it out well before release based on track record and gameplay.

The fact there’s such a statement & article should tell you part of what’s wrong with game journalism.

I think the same can be said for developers in general? I'm sure half the studios employees don't play games

CEO of any big game publisher (EA,activion, ubisoft etc ect )should also have a passion in gaming

I’m too busy playing games

Wow. Imagine this article was about movies.

"We need more people who actually watch movies to write about them."

Or even boom reviews...what a freaking joke.

Problem is hack media entities like G/O (who own Kotaku) hire lazy randos who are desperate to write about anything at all for a living because they aren't qualified for any other job (including real journalism). If you want passion for the hobby you need to look for writers who do it because they actually want to do it.

I game to much to have time to write about a game am already done with

So many don't review games objectively, and their reviews have become an extension of the console wars or an attempt to generate clicks.

there is a reason I prefer independed Youtubers, more often than you can tell they do care.

The majority of reviews are only designed for one purpose: promotion. Pushing the product and pushing the individual/outlet's desired point of view. Do you think reviewers in other areas got in because they're all seasoned filmmakers, musicians and novelists themselves? The idea of maintaining journalistic integrity in this age is a bad joke. People need to stop deluding themselves with the belief that games journalism is anything but free advertising.

That would make sense, it's like someone who tests cars but never actually driving them, just writing about them 🤣

There is also a youtube-era infliction and issue with inserting personal opinions , themselves or worse, their cringe-ass persona as the main subject of the game or experience (it's not about the "anonymous Gamer experience" anymore). I remember when there were breakdowns of the dev teams, music, inspiration and so much more. These days it is VERY shallow and more of a half-assed regurgitated advertisement for the said game in review. Which is where we basically are at today, where big titles are handed off to an entity who really is there like an end-cap in a super market to just pump sales rather than give it a proper studied once-over review. They don't even play the full game anymore, and this is more and more apparent. I get it if a non-gaming publication like NYT or Forbes posts a disconnected cringe review, but IGN and other game-dogs? yeah... We need a game journalist hero game, who rights all the wrongs.. meanwhile ironically decimating the current state of gaming journalism.

No we need more Wall Street journals telling us what games to buy. SMH

Lmao. Good luck with that. I’d like anyone at NYT with any subject to know wtf they are talking about before they publish. They can’t even write a game review without pushing their bullshit. Journalism is dead. The writers killed it.