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Starfield review controversy traces game journalism's orbital decay (www.gamesindustry.biz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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More concerning than Bethesda's decision to withhold early review codes from certain outlets is how heavily some sites are relying on the game to drive their business.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This article made a damn good point about how much gaming websites depend on guides now. It hasn’t really clicked until now with me. I follow a bot on Mastodon that posts new articles from a bunch of different gaming sites, and it seems like half of them are for guides and walkthroughs. That’s where they get their ad bucks from, so that and SEO are the big focus.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, after Reddit died (as far as I'm concerned) I set up a tracker for a load of RSS feeds. A lot of them are, as you say, updates concerning walkthroughs and guides. Predominantly Baldurs Gate 3 at the moment.

Which is fine I guess, but it is very obvious what they're pushing...I'd rather just have news.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just checked that gaming news Mastodon account I follow, and of the 20 most recent posts, 19 of them were guides.