GameTap Gives Editorial the Axe 25
GameTap has announced that it will be giving their editorial section the axe and concentrating solely on the distribution business. "We have had a lot of successes over the last year and the move to the web has been a good one for us. While we have been very happy with the work done by our editorial and video teams, we've made a decision to focus the business on our biggest strength, which is our game catalog. As a result, we will be restructuring the site to focus exclusively on gameplay."
Translation? (Score:4, Insightful)
They never will be missed (Score:2, Insightful)
GameTap? Do we, like, care?
I mean, when the San Jose Mercury News laid off half of their editorial staff, it really hurt the paper, which went from a top-tier newspaper to almost an advertising throwaway. The Washington Post editorial staff was recently cut to 80% of its peak size, including layoffs of three Pulitzer Prize winners. When the Wall Street Journal was taken over by Murdoch, and key editors were replaced, that was a loss. These are the people who dig into what the Government and business are really doing. We need them to keep the country honest.
When Wired laid off most of their reporters to become a clone of the Sharper Image catalog, we lost something. The demise of Next Generation magazine, the only gamer magazine with real editorial content, was something of a loss.
But editorial for a second-tier (if that) gamer web site? Who cares? Worst case, somebody spends a few bucks on a crap game and has a boring evening.
Re:They never will be missed (Score:1, Insightful)
There is no such thing as 'abandonware'; just because a game is no longer in production does not mean you can scream yarr and let slip the dogs of copyright infringement.
That said, most companies don't care, but try not to suffer any delusions that what you're doing is legal.