Nothing looks better on a corporate resume than taking over a successful business and immediately alienating all the talent that made it successful. I don’t know who the jerkwad is that fucked up so badly, but I hope this follows them for years.
Kudos to Nick, Yahtzee and all the rest for sticking with each other in solidarity rather than caving to corporate pressure. I’ll be looking forward to seeing them produce new videos in the future, hopefully under their own LLC.
Its already up and cracking. They got right to it. They took the whole company with them.
"employee owned"
Nice
Thank you so much for this, awesome.
While The Escapist grew stronger and bigger year after year under Nick, their owners at Gamur were upset the site didn't reek of panic and despair like a good corporate environment should.
What exactly do they mean by "flagship"? The Escapist had Zero Punctuation and... that's about it. Aside from some Yahtzee Croshaw podcasts, I can't think of anything else worth watching on there.
Adventure is Nigh, Cold Take, Design Delve, Stuff of Legend, 3 Minute Reviews, some documentaries like the Spiritfarer one.
They have more, but those are what I watched.
3 Minute Reviews were good, but reviews are relatively easy to shovel out. Their essays were so bad, I started to actively avoid them.
The Anatomy of Sekiro comes to mind in particular. Competently structured but devoid of any meaningful observations.
It feels like these guys where working to meet a quota.
Hey now, that's not fair. They also had Extra Punctuation :P
I‘m pretty sure some greedy suit killed the whole company overnight and I can‘t control my schadenfreude
So many talented creators have left over bad working conditions. Not surprising it's still going on now.
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