Gaming Journalist™ earning that 4 cents per word
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Can't say I've ever heard of that website but looking into it there are articles pumped out by it every hour and it has no traction.
Ad supported AI writing by a wobbly wheeled janny would be my best guess.
I think i've heard of them before, which means they're likely old enough to predate believable ai, lol.
could have gone that way without the USAID money, though.
Its one of those sites that clearly pays google because if you look up something it'll usually be one of the first sites with a very generic, copy paste answer that has every possible word you looked up in a sentence somewhere.
That made so little sense that I got clickbaited into reading the article.
He goes on and on about how he doesn't care you can make hot women in the character creator and that people only like the game because of that. He cares so little that he wrote a whole article about it.
It's from The Gamer, who are the opposite of what that implies.
Also I didn't read that yet, but people I trust have, and they told me it's very bad.
Gaming journalism is actually miserable. Think about how many games are unplayed in your Steam library. Now imagine you had to write book reports about a random 12 of them daily and act like you know or care what you're talking about.
Back in the day a bunch of nerds (my friends) were inspired to start their own gaming website, because that's just one of those dreams you could have in the 00s. I was included as a contributor just because I wanted to support them but didn't want to put any stake in it.
I did about 3 reviews of games they gave me, games I couldn't have cared less about (one was a Strongbad one I remember) and it was near impossible to get through let alone not sound impossibly generic in writing. Like, I did it but it was very difficult and very very miserable.
Later, I'd spend some time as a ghost writer for WoW lore articles for various websites/blogs to slap some "actual name" from their site over and it was a cake walk. I could crank out thousands of words within 20 minutes because it was something I was passionate about.
So the plight of a games journo is understandable, but they are the retards who made that their job. So it still falls on them to either suck it up or get a new life.
If you DGAF about quality of your work (or are too stupid to tell the difference), then it could be. If you have a sliver of a conscience then no.
OK then
Gives off the same energy as "According to sources familiar with the thinking of..."
There's a lot of games I haven't played, but I can tell if they're good or not based on if there's fanart of it. No one ever makes fanart of Raid Shadow Legends.
Fanart is disproportionate often times to a single viral horny design in a game.
Bombergirl is a fucking garbage game but has more fanart than probably most of the PS1 classics combined.
People make a ton of fan art of terrible video games. As far as I know, there isn’t much fan art for Underrail.
The Gamer has multiple troons on staff. In fact, they might have more troons writing than not. This article comes as no surprise.
The founder is a troon I believe.
That sounds more like a comment on a post than something that would be in a review. Ive noticed that it's either women or soy boys who mostly write for game journalism websites
> anonymous sources
I'm a mech fan, I'm not a battle Royale fan, and MechaBreak merit will be purely based on its gameplay. Sexy girls hold no sway on me for this title. Hopefully I have something new to look forward to playing.
Scorching hot women are a common rugpull tactic from seedy Asian developers. It's pretty sad but now that the trail was blazed by devs like Team Ninja that were artistically obsessed with female features, it's actually pretty easy to slap some uwu assets in your game and call it a day.
Well that's why Shift Up broke that trend with their games. Using a classic 90's-00's tactic of throwing hot women in the game and actually delivering something fun to play.
I mean that made one of the three models on the store page to show off the game literally Asuka from Evangelion piloting something close to her Eva.
So they are aiming for a very specific demographic.
"nobody cares" says a publication known to care about retarded shit.
do people read that particular site?
Editor: "Write an article about this game!"
Writer: "Hmm, should I play the game? No, people on Twitter are way more reliable."