Komm Susser Todd Intensifies
It’s with a completely not-heavy and emotionless heart that I announce that loltaku is basically done.
There are a lot of reason for this, which I will now go over.
One is that it’s just been long enough. It’s been about 4 and a half years and honestly I feel like it’d be sad to be doing this for five years, and while 4 and a half is a petty distinction, it’s still a distinction, and that’s what matters!
The internet isn’t really the same anymore. Everyone is moving away from the ‘perpetually salty ripping on stuff’ formula of content generation (thank god) and this blog is a relic of that era. It’s also a relic of me being younger and a lot angrier, which I’m really not anymore, so a good chunk of the initial motivation is gone.
Second, is the simple fact that not only is Kotaku barely the same site (almost all it’s contributors are now different and amateurish), it’s actually now much, much worse than it was when I started.
Originally Kotaku was generally mediocre with a tendency to post really stupid things, which is what made it such a good initial target. Now everything it posts is stupid, irrelevant, hyper-sexualized, or a combination of all of those things. It’s just a bad site. How am I supposed to make fun of a clown? Should I shit on it’s floppy shoes? How about it’s tiny car? It’s just not going to work out.
Kotaku isn’t the same site and from what I’ve been told by former contributors they’re barely paying it’s new contributors more than they could make at McDonalds so I’m not even sure I could say anything more pointed than what they feel working for the damn site.
Third, gaming journalism in general is pretty much a shambling corpse at this point. Like, for real.
IGN is laying people off.
Vice Gaming tanked and rebranded to Waypoint which is kind of floundering (hint hint guys more articles about ddlg kink and pokemon fucking ain’t gonna pull you out of that cesspit)
Playboy cut a bloody swath through it’s gaming section (did you know Playboy had gaming coverage? Ha haaaa how could that ever fail.)
Polygon isn’t doing so hot and is trying to reconfigure as a personality site, which considering they also employ Arthur Gies and Ben Kuchera is not so much contradictory to that goal as it is wreaking nuclear holocaust on said goal.
The old model of a site with an office and a dozen contributors + PR staff + tech staff just isn’t viable anymore. Those times are done, and the momentum carrying these sites along in age where they’re obsolete is finally slowing down and they’re going to die.
Hell, E3 isn’t even industry only anymore. Everyone streams every major announcement cause they want you to see directly. The day a game comes out you have access to hundreds of hours of footage. There just isn’t a need for these people anymore. Especially when you consider even the more academic side of things is being covered by people like Gaming Historian, Slope’s Game Room, MisterCaption and MatthewMatosis. It’s over. So why keep talking about them?
This blog will be left up as an archive of bad articles and also shit I’ll probably really eventually wish I hadn’t said (betting pool on how long before this post is on that list heyooooo)
You can follow my typical tumblr blog fair at @thefeelofavideogame where sometimes I also pretend to have insightful things to say but mostly it’s just going to be shitty jokes, or on twitter at mrfeelswildride
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