For me I think a lot of the soul of the GB I gew to love is the bunch of people in a room doing shit together and that kind of died long before covid with the split. I think before that losing Ryan was a serious blow that they recovered from well with some excellent hires like Dan and Austin but they couldn't hold on to them and they have been treading water staffing wise for years. That said Jess is a great addition and I hope she sticks around.
I've been a premium member for 10 years, I started with just the podcas and now that's basically where I am back to. 90% of the new slew of premium stuff is of little to no interest to me personally but i'm happy that they are at least trying some things. Part of it i'm certain is that i'm older and busier and don't have the time to enjoy some of the things they are doing so I can't blame the content for everything.
I think the problems are made worse by comparision to what other people are doing and specifically ex-GB staff like Nextlander. They have embraced some of the things that I personally enjoyed the most about GB content and focused in on that while new GB is spreading itself out more.
At this point I don't really have any good constructive feedback as I really have no idea what Giantbomb should be at this point, I just know that it's not going to be the thing i've got rose tinted glasses for and that's fine.
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