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The Games Industry Needs A Stronger Games Media (www.thegamer.com)
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[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (15 children)

Who is going to pay for it? Every time journalists try to get paid enough to eat and have a roof over their head people cry "paywall!!!"

Or if they do ad supported people cry "ad infested cancer site!!" Or "lol adblock!"

Just to be clear, i adblock the shit out of the internet. I prefer some kind of paid model, but i'll get downvoted to hell for saying that. I'm not smart enough to have any good answers on how to pay journalists. But crying "paywall" at everything is not helpful...

What i dislike is having to have an account and password for everything. There needs to be a better model/system for paying journalists (not just in gaming media)

Currently the only business models are:

  1. ad filled clickbait
  2. billionaire backed media
  3. unpaid volunteer work
  4. paid subscription

And it seems like the only sustainable ones in this day and age are 1 and 2 (to the detriment of our society)

[–] jnk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe it's just me, but the only topic where i see people consistently complaining about paywalls is in publicly-financed research articles behind a paywall, which should definitely not be legal and fuck universities doing that shit. As for general news i haven't seen so much complaints, but then again, maybe i just wooooshed through them.

Personally I don't really care in this context because i can go to the source if I'm that invested and don't want to pay, their job is to keep track and sometimes summarize what happens in the industry. Seems reasonable to either pay or invest my own time. Adblock is non negociable tho.

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

oh yeah, publicly funded research should 100% be open access to the public

go visit any of the news subreddits/communities... any time people post a link to a news site there are a bunch of comments complaining about paywalls, or OP gets downvoted

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