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."
Not a big loss (Score:5, Interesting)
Then, one day, the client updated itself and all of the built-in, integrated "browsing" features disappeared, and instead of viewing the vids, news, etc., within the client, it simply launched the web browser and took you to their website.
For me, this was a prime example of an application "upgrading" in such a way that it totally ruined the "eXPerience" of the application itself. No longer was it a single integrated gaming and news "world", it was now a nice game launching application with a pathetic hook into your web browser. That marked the day that I never did anything with GameTap again - other than simply to play the games.
So, as I said - this isn't a big loss - they already shot themselves in the foot by making it harder to reach their news & editorials, so no wonder they are finally dropping it anyway.
Now, if they could only add more games, and return the great games that they once had on their service but then later removed.
They are incorporating them into the game section? (Score:3, Interesting)
Jonah HEX
Re:They are incorporating them into the game secti (Score:2, Interesting)
Like I said, I could be wrong, but reading the article, and message board link on it, I dont see any word from gametap that they are firing all their editors. One poster linked to the article saying there would be layoffs, but there has been no reply from the staff. Guess time will tell (IE editors saying they got their slips, or even the less likely case of the company confirming the layoffs in advance).