The New Games Journalism, Same As The Old Games Journalism - Aftermath (aftermath.site)

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[-] jedibob5@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

It's funny that Aftermath is writing about bad game journalism practices when they themselves have an initial "you must register to read our articles," but then after registration, hit you with an actual hard paywall after a couple of articles.

If they want to paywall their content, that is their prerogative, but they could at least be up-front about it, instead of only telling me about it after I went through the trouble of creating an account.

[-] hybridhavoc@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I think there may be some room for improvement on messaging there.

[-] Goronmon@lemmy.world -4 points 9 months ago

I'm not entirely sure what connection your comment has to the article itself?

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Aftermath is a crap site that also practices the things they complain about?

[-] aCosmicWave@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

I quite enjoy this site. On my journey to replace a lot of my content consumption with RSS feeds, Aftermath found a home in my RSS reader. We are human and humans can be hypocrites but there’s no need to dismiss an entire publication because of a single author's hypocritical stance.

[-] Patches@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

RSS feeds?

What year is it?

[-] Goronmon@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago

Where in the article did they complain about registration or paywalls?

[-] Vordus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

How would they fucking know? The article is behind a paywall!

[-] Goronmon@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Honestly, I hadn't realized there was a paywall on the article after having signed up a couple weeks ago.

I'll actually avoid posting their articles here then. Thanks for the callout.

Edit: Though I'm still interested in hearing about where they are hypocritical. People keep saying Aftermath writers say paywalls are bad, but I haven't seen that anywhere that I've noticed.