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Does Anyone Genuinely LIKE or ENJOY Reading Kotaku?
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I think when they actually do...journalism vs treating it as some weird personal blog/soapbox it's pretty decent. Tim Rogers is trying too hard for an old guy tho.
also, you can get get a sense of what someone's like if they go off on one about how much they dislike kotaku. *side eye*
They need to make money, so naturally they're going to have stuff with sensational headlines or trying push affiliate marketing on you through "check out this deal on [x]" posts. I accept this and just keep scrolling until I see something from the authors I like there. I love Gita, Jason, Cecilia, and Tim's stuff and theirs is often the stuff I seek out.
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I understand it's not much of a site atm, but you've got an audience big enough to go just about anywhere and be fine, no?
I'm not familiar with Univision's structure but curious if you've ever considered flying solo in the past? They seem flexible with outside work with your book, but considering your stature and "tenure" at the company, it would be cool to see you negotiate points of Kotaku itself, or a percentage of click revenue itself for your work.
lol, I call bullshit on that
But yes, i quite enjoy the site and a lot of its content. Not all of its content, but realizing not everything is for me and that's okay was a big part of growing up. You might get there one day too.
Now I feel bad that I forgot about Heather Alexandra and Gita Jackson who are also great writers.
I listen to Split Screen and watch Tim Rogers's Youtube videos. They have good articles occasionally, but it's not really a site I'd go to daily. I usually just find them either here or on Twitter.
Tim Rogers and Schreier are both fantastic for different reasons. Their other writers like Heather, Kirk, Zach, and Gita put out quality content as well. So to answer your question, yes, they're the gaming publication that I read the most regularly, actually.
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Uh if anything they've gotten much better within the last few years
also clickbait pulp articles can be fun
also clickbait pulp articles can be fun
No, I don't like Kotaku at all. Their content is usually clickbait, their reviews are not good enogh IMO and I just dislike their website layout.
Jason from time to time has some interesting content (he also has some bad reviews) and i can't stand the Rogers guy at all.
Jason from time to time has some interesting content (he also has some bad reviews) and i can't stand the Rogers guy at all.
Seems kinda lame that you'll continue to go there while denying them ad revenue. The deep-dive articles you like are funded in part by the fluff you don't like, that's unfortunately the way things work. As you acknowledged, if you don't like it, don't go. But adblocking them because half the headlines upset you is actually making the situation worse.
Makes a lot more sense to evaluate on a writer-by-writer basis, no?
Like, ESPN has a lot of bad writers, except it also has the best basketball writer in Zach Lowe. So if I were to judge ESPN's writing one way or another, it would wind up annoyingly needing the additional qualifications and exclusions after.
Like, ESPN has a lot of bad writers, except it also has the best basketball writer in Zach Lowe. So if I were to judge ESPN's writing one way or another, it would wind up annoyingly needing the additional qualifications and exclusions after.
I don't expect you to have in-depth knowledge about the inner workings of journalism, but you need to understand that "clicks" do not equate to revenue. I get a salary and benefits from a company with a business department that sells ads, posts deals, and puts together other revenue generators (that are thankfully kept very far away from the editorial team) in order to ensure that we get paid on time.
This thread really sucks and despite your sudden pivot to sucking up to me, I have no patience for your generic disparagement of my colleagues' hard work. You want to criticize an article or offer specific feedback, be my guest. You want to try to get a bunch of people to dogpile on Kotaku, GamerGate-style, based on absolutely nothing but gut feelings, vague nonsense about "clickbait," and a threat to put us on your ad blocker? Piss off.
I used to enjoy it and was a daily reader for a while but back in the Wii U period they published this expose calling Nintendo appalling for bragging about high metacritic scores at a shareholders meeting.
Just what? Why wouldn't they? So bizzare. I haven't been able to take them seriously since.
Just what? Why wouldn't they? So bizzare. I haven't been able to take them seriously since.
So happy to see Tim Rogers get so much love in here. Starting to think he's not gonna did hungry.
No, but then again, I don't read any gaming website. I've come to strongly dislike gaming personalities.
I get my news from ERA!
I get my news from ERA!
They're like the Deadspin of video games.
Nothing but nonstop clickbait and sensationalism with a few legit articles by JS.
You mocking the DARQ dev on twitter really sucked.
Nothing but nonstop clickbait and sensationalism with a few legit articles by JS.
You mocking the DARQ dev on twitter really sucked.
If it wasn't for Era I would almost never visit Kotaku for gaming news. Tim Rogers is great, Cecilia D'Anastasio is amazing, and Jason, even if I don't agree with him when he reviews JRPGs, is an A+ journalist.
I basically only go to any gaming site when stuff's linked on here or in a feed somewhere. So I don't really visit Kotaku to check what's up, I'm just occasionally led to specific articles on there. In my experience Kotaku is mostly good, excelling at industry reporting and raising awareness of working conditions, but is bad with topics related to EGS as Kotaku doesn't particularly care about the customer perspective of this situation.
I used to, but less so these days.
Schreier has put out some great work in the past, but he has become a little too enamored with himself and his cult of personality lately. I know, I shouldn't care, the work should speak for itself, but when he goes of his way to tweet that he won't be tweeting as much because he has to write a second book about how he is going to save the videogame world from crunch or he responds in this thread with:
I'm sorry. Get over yourself dude. I'm realize I'm being petty and most likely just jealous but my distaste for his recent online persona has led me to stop reading Kotaku. As such, I'm not too familiar with Tim Rogers' work, so perhaps I am missing out.
Schreier has put out some great work in the past, but he has become a little too enamored with himself and his cult of personality lately. I know, I shouldn't care, the work should speak for itself, but when he goes of his way to tweet that he won't be tweeting as much because he has to write a second book about how he is going to save the videogame world from crunch or he responds in this thread with:
I'm sorry. Get over yourself dude. I'm realize I'm being petty and most likely just jealous but my distaste for his recent online persona has led me to stop reading Kotaku. As such, I'm not too familiar with Tim Rogers' work, so perhaps I am missing out.
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I didn't pivot away from saying you suck? You have the best articles on the site, I feel that's undeniable regardless of opinion on the site as a whole. You bring a lot to that site.
I'm not trying to cause some insurrection or mass exodus either. I didn't call out anyone specific for the very reason as to not dog pile (mods feel free to lock the thread if it does turn into one). It was a general question of what people's opinions were.
I did until the first big redesign and I did not know how to navigate the site anymore had no idea how to even go to next page and read full stories.
Now I only read the stuff jason tweets out.
Now I only read the stuff jason tweets out.
No, but every now and then they release some insights and reports that are legit some of the best in the gaming journalism industry. I'm not sure I even care about any other gaming sites now tbh.
I'm just going to use this to say that I loved Gita Jackson's recent piece on Control, as someone who also went to a liberal arts school with a brutalist library named after the Mudd family and read Fun Home in college. It's a great little piece and it touches on a part of Control's visual design that seems to have been a little neglected relative to everything else in it.
I like Jason Schreier's work but that's it. I actually hate how the website looks and don't really read Kotaku regularly.
i don't really visit any gaming website regularly, just click on the links if they're posted here, but i don't have any issues with kotaku. kotaku UK tho, not sure if it's fixed now but they had some low quality clickbait on there a while back.
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