Affecting meta ratings apparently, which is a direct pipeline to how companies assess their marketing strategies.
Pay a few big outlets to spew the exact same nonsense and you've basically solidified control over a very large, interactive form of media regardless of what the consumerbase actually thinks.
Standards get lower and lower, and soon your minimal effort propaganda is profitable. If you have a few big studios under your thumb you basically can't fail.
What exactly are the "journalists" doing that any hobby blogger can't?
Affecting meta ratings apparently, which is a direct pipeline to how companies assess their marketing strategies.
Pay a few big outlets to spew the exact same nonsense and you've basically solidified control over a very large, interactive form of media regardless of what the consumerbase actually thinks.
Standards get lower and lower, and soon your minimal effort propaganda is profitable. If you have a few big studios under your thumb you basically can't fail.
The sad thing to me is that Giant Bomb in the early days felt like 4 guys hanging out having fun talking about games.
Then Ryan Davis died and the site just slowly died.
Exactly.
Maintaining the status quo and demoralization efforts. That's it.