@topcyclist:People are different from eachother, so it's very unlikely that it's as black & white that no one really cares about the information they provide about the games. I mean, i do? I can get something out of Jeff's garage streams and tiktoks for sure, but this was also my main avenue of staying up to date with cool new stuff to play. But clearly there are plenty of people that cared about the game content. Especially when they spend quite a lot of airtime providing information about games & the industry instead of thinking up fun sketches to pull for entertainment throughout all these videos that seem to be informative in nature. Surely people haven't been staring at all these QL videos and news-segments throughout the years only for the hope that something entertaining happened during them?
I imagine most people arrived to this site because they were interested in the games and they ended up liking the people doing the games coverage. A good chunk of that audience will watch and subscribe for the people first and foremost, even if they didn't do games coverage. At the same time, there are plenty of people that used GB to get a decent view of the latest releases and the classics of yore and will end up having to look for greener pastures when they don't feel like they're able to get enough of that coverage. That's only natural and doesn't have to be a bad thing necessarily, but it will lead to that group moving more and more away from GB.
GB never pretended to be your one stop shop for all things gaming, but it's undeniable that with the current situation you kind of have to be looking outside the site to discover the latest non-AAA games that are doing well. I haven't put effort in finding a new avenue yet, and one look on some online lists tells me i am more uninformed than ever on what's hot in the indiespace right now.
Golf Club Wasteland? Splitgate footage? Just Die Already? Omno? Lake? Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion? Stonefly? Before Your Eyes? The Company Man? Curved Space? Olija? Wildfire Swap? Everhood? Curse Of The Dead Gods? Habroxia 2? Genesis Noir? El Hijo? Kaze And The Wild Masks? Rain On Your Parade? Honey I Joined A Cult? Life Is Strange: True Colors? No Umbrella's Allowed?
I've heard of a few of these but 80% is completely unknown to me. Even games like The Ascent & Knockout City, which has been mentioned regularly, have had no screentime on the site at all. Again, it's all explainable and natural that it's the way it is, but the endresult is that people will be looking elsewhere if they care about being informed and discovering games that suit them. You can no longer 'get by' on GB videos and feel like you have a decent grasp on the top ~50 games each year.
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