In a post today, it was revealed that Nintendo DPad, probably one of the best independently operated blogs covering Nintendo news will be shutting down. In what I can imagine is the final post, there was a definite feeling of fond farewell, but not without a bit of complaining:

"Most sites are doing what they do for hits, which in turn bring up your Alexa rank, and in turn collect more money from ad firms. It is easy to write or publish flame bait whether that be a sales age article, review scores, or trying to make 50 stories out of every sentence an employee at Nintendo says.

Not only are gaming blogs corrupt though, the actual industry is as well. When I first started posting stories, I subscribed to gaming magazines, bought all the biggest games to talk about, and did all these things without any ad money. I did this so the reader could benefit. Funny thing though, outside of WiiWare devs, which are great to talk to, none of the bigger companies will respond to you. This industry used to be about gamers, but now it is about money, and releasing tactical info about a game at exact dates to increase hype. And unless your a bigger site, they don’t hear your voice, or even respond."

  In a post today, it was revealed that Nintendo DPad, probably one of the best independently operated blogs covering Nintendo news will be shutting down. In what I can imagine is the final post, there was a definite feeling of fond farewell, but not without a bit of complaining:

"Most sites are doing what they do for hits, which in turn bring up your Alexa rank, and in turn collect more money from ad firms. It is easy to write or publish flame bait whether that be a sales age article, review scores, or trying to make 50 stories out of every sentence an employee at Nintendo says.

Not only are gaming blogs corrupt though, the actual industry is as well. When I first started posting stories, I subscribed to gaming magazines, bought all the biggest games to talk about, and did all these things without any ad money. I did this so the reader could benefit. Funny thing though, outside of WiiWare devs, which are great to talk to, none of the bigger companies will respond to you. This industry used to be about gamers, but now it is about money, and releasing tactical info about a game at exact dates to increase hype. And unless your a bigger site, they don’t hear your voice, or even respond."

Thats a bummer, It always sucks when something like this happens.

Hey, the site's down now (unsurprisingly). Do you have access to the full transcript?

Never heard of them.
 
Also, lol wat?

 This industry used to be about gamers, but now it is about money, and releasing tactical info about a game at exact dates to increase hype.

I hang my head in shame at this post! Weither you are a fan boy of any system this is sad to see!  I love it when a true gamer has something to say and when they shut it down or can't afford to keep it up a piece of gaming dies with it!  I miss when games weren't run by huge companies but rather the people that bought them! Now days they tell you what to buy and like zombies we do, way to much!

I'd never heard of them either, but I could see that there were less spelling and grammatical errors in the segment of the post than the vast majority I've seen on Kotaku.

Regardless of the quality of the blog (which I can't comment on having never frequented it), the quoted bits makes me have little to no sympathy at all.  Complaints against the focus on profits in blogs and the industry at large?  Welcome to the real world kiddo.

" I'd never heard of them either, but I could see that there were less spelling and grammatical errors in the segment of the post than the vast majority I've seen on Kotaku. "

Yeah, I'm sorry guys. I wish I had gotten the entire post down.