GameSpot Layoffs Incoming

I hope this doesn't impact the forums @TheEroica.

What are your thoughts on this, my fellow friends at SW?

That sucks. Wishing the best for all those affected.

@kvallyx: As the victim of layoffs in the past, my heart goes out to those affected. I hope they all land on their feet very soon.

That is some s***ty news. They keep f***ing with this place. If anything goes well they knock it back down.

This place is owned by Fandom now right? Not looking forward to their changes going by their other sites. Hope we don't get a load of 10% finished wikis and AI garbage.

Ouch!😆

It’s always tough when people lose their jobs, especially when it’s due to an executive financial report pushing for higher revenues. Hopefully, they can land on their feet.

Do we know of any prominent staff members leaving the site?

GiantBomb canceled their stream for the day. Mega64 also said yesterday that they only have enough funds to operate for a couple weeks.

“We've really enjoyed providing videos, podcasts, live events and convention experiences for all of you for the past 20+ years. Today we are asking our fans to join us for a swell of ground support to keep Mega64 going as it always has.

If you're interested in being a part of that movement please tune into our stream.

Consider supporting us onPatreon.com/Mega64”

@kvallyx: Could've ask me ya'know. But anyway, it's not just GS, but its all over the gaming world that's been taking a massive hits on the layoffs. The whole economy is really crashing down, it feels like 2008 all aver again with the recession.

But now, it won't impact the forums as GS doesn't make revenue on the forums itself.

Noticed the front-page this year has became very, very heavy on advertisements to the point click it now see more of these than game stuff.

So yea, I guess that was indicative something was up.

How to even stay motivated in this industry, your job is literally worth less than disposable waste.

Hopefully they got rid of their reviewers.

ai is going to eat the world. writers like these are just a very early appetiser on its menu.

sad but over the next couple of years those kinds of skills are toast^. poor guy begging for a job on twitter. post pandemic this world is brutal

Sad for those who lost jobs. That is one of the many reasons I am glad to be a High School Teacher. There is a TON of job openings in education. (and teaching is the best job ever!)

So now these "Professional" Game journalists have to get real jobs. Sad

Gamespot reviews are generally well written. I don't agree with them alot of the time, esp ignoring predatory monetization, but it's generally not lazy bait type shit like Kotaku.

@kvallyx: i can't say one way or another... I'm just not sure what they're looking at for solutions.... My guess is that the forums still carry a significant amount of hits for the site, despite being much much less than the glory days. I'm sad we're seeing this decline, I just don't know what the next move is.

It will suck real bad if it's just dead link all of a sudden.

Are forumites able to be laid off? Because if so I’m sweating bullets…

@Basinboy: I'll take a severance package

Feel bad for the folks laid off.

I know we talk some trash about Gamespot as a company, but I know there were and are some people here that do like their job and do work hard at it.

I was reading somewhere that contracted writers get maybe $50-100 per article, which is why they're often such clickbaity trash and tend to be repeat articles just phrased differently lol.

But yeah, it was very rare these days when a true bit of actual video game journalism made it's way to Gamespot; but when it did, my god, it was refreshing.

The demand (or at least the appreciation for it) is there, I truly believe that, they just want the quick profits.

Capitalism sucks, as it is now. Need to temper it with some socialism. Become a perfect balance of capitalism and socialism.

It’s a good thing you Mods work for peanuts!

Get the emergency Discord pod ready lol

Glad to hear it!

Understood. Well, if you get a heads up, you let us know!

@SolidGame_basic: I love Peanuts🥜

@SolidGame_basic: I made one just in case. Would like to keep chatting if the plug gets pulled.

It sucks to hear about people being laid off. Being laid off in the past sucks. Hopefully they'll find a new job as quickly as they can.

One of the changes that Fandom will do to this place is censorship.

@GameboyTroy: As opposed to before? Every site does it except 8chan

I am surprised they even make any money on GS. The websites are dying in general replaced long time ago by individual bloggers and streamers.

Feel sad for the people who lost their jobs 😔. That is a really tough thing to deal with. Gaming industry is a brutal one. Hopefully they are able to quickly find other jobs.

I wonder what generative AI will do to gaming journalism? Let's say a human on one site writes an article about something. Then generative AI rephrases that article into a zillion different versions and post copies on a bunch of different sites. I wonder how humans will be able to break through all that noise. But we need real human writers!

Where will we all go if GS closes down? :(

Maybe the world outside isn’s so bad 🥹?

I hope Gamespot doesn't shutdown.

Eh, cheer up, it's not the end of the World. ;o

Of Warcraft. lol :P

Naw, i will miss GS :(

I was an avid PlayStation Forums user back in the hayday. Checked some years ago and they got rid of the forums; off-topic, etc. Made a lot of good connections there; apart of the Welcoming Comittee, which teenage me thought was awesome. LOL. So I can resonate with some of ya'll if these forums go offline. :(

Here is the discord that Eroica made in case shit goes down here:

https://discord.gg/TYAzqBhd

How probable is it that GS Will shut down?

Yes! The world outside is better, buuuut we also have an offshoot discord that is lying in wait just in case...

https://discord.gg/TYAzqBhd

Sympathies to all those who lost their jobs.

The rest of you: keep working hard!

This is great news for the folks yearning for the industry to crash.

IGN is still doing well. Gamespot just wasn't able to maintain, let alone expand, its popularity and readership. These forums are completely dead. There is around an hour or two inbetween new posts nowadays; meanwhile this is how busy the forums were 11 years ago:

That's multiple posts per minute.

And with the forum halfway infested with posters that spread hatred for any games that aren't aimed exclusively to single late millennial males, there's no way for this place to get new users.

Gamespot it generally still too popular a name for that.

At the absolute worst, it would be sold off again.

@Willy105 said:

@ivangrozny said:

I am surprised they even make any money on GS. The websites are dying in general replaced long time ago by individual bloggers and streamers.

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That's multiple posts per minute.

That doesn't sound good at all. Not sure why people would want this. The Steam forums have that, it's a mess.

Youtube killed sites like Gamespot. You'll all be fine not wasting your time here anymore.

@uninspiredcup said:

@Willy105 said:

@ivangrozny said:

I am surprised they even make any money on GS. The websites are dying in general replaced long time ago by individual bloggers and streamers.

:

That's multiple posts per minute.

That doesn't sound good at all. Not sure why people would want this. The Steam forums have that, it's a mess.

No one is looking at the Steam forums as a good thing or something one would want.

@uninspiredcup said:

@Willy105 said:

@ivangrozny said:

I am surprised they even make any money on GS. The websites are dying in general replaced long time ago by individual bloggers and streamers.

:

That's multiple posts per minute.

That doesn't sound good at all. Not sure why people would want this. The Steam forums have that, it's a mess.

Wait a minute. Was there actually going to be a sequel to Sleeping Dogs? And you reported that news? But yeah, all of this was before my time here at GS. I was still on IGN lol.

@davillain said:

@uninspiredcup said:

@Willy105 said:

@ivangrozny said:

I am surprised they even make any money on GS. The websites are dying in general replaced long time ago by individual bloggers and streamers.

:

That's multiple posts per minute.

That doesn't sound good at all. Not sure why people would want this. The Steam forums have that, it's a mess.

Wait a minute. Was there actually going to be a sequel to Sleeping Dogs? And you reported that news? But yeah, all of this was before my time here at GS. I was still on IGN lol.

Think have alzheimer's or something, don't even recall at all being on the forum at that time. Also thought you were on it longer than me for some reason. Probably cause mod. Special person status. VIP. The big cheese.