IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like deputy editor Alice Bell - eviltoast
Long-time Staffers At RPS, GamesIndustry.biz, VG247 Surprised By Layoffs As IGN Buys Network - Aftermath
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“At least one person from almost any department at a company like this you can imagine got some bad news today”

Welp, this didn’t take long.

It’s especially interesting that they laid off a lot of people who were the only ones in their particular job, leaving entire jobs uncovered. I suspect this comes right before shutting them entirely or doing it all “with AI” 🤮.

Sad in particular about Alice Bell. She was fantastic, and it always felt like she kept the site going through all the shit of recent years. Plus being the driving force behind their podcast (the Electronic Wireless Show) of course also spells doom for that one though I hope that like Indiescovery they go rogue and run it independent of the site.

Bleak times. Fuck IGN.

  • FeelzGoodMan420English
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    5 months ago

    Man…you said the issue with all of this is people not willing to pay to remove ads. I’m saying that even when you buy expensive products, you still have ads. So ads are everywhere, regardless of whether you pay or use free products. The entire business model is fucked. That’s what I’m saying. I’m not sure what it causing the confusion here.

    • Goronmon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Ahh…I see where you got confused.

      I was saying that people will run an ad-blocker, but also refuse to pay directly for content.

      And then complain that nobody makes good content.

      I’m saying that even when you buy expensive products, you still have ads.

      Sure, but that’s not really related to the topic. “Why are there ads in the products I pay for?” is a different issue than "Why are there ads in the products I don’t pay for?

      • FeelzGoodMan420English
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        5 months ago

        Yea. Separate but related issues I suppose. I just feel like even when we pay tons of money for expensive products, we will get ads. Even modern cars are collecting an obscene amount of data even though we pay a shit ton of money for them. It’s completely out of control.