@strijd: Neither have I. it could be any random YouTube video, except I have the privilege of paying for it because I was suckered into renewing my sub in January before they announced the departures.
I just really don't understand how many people feel the need to pop into the comments of this show and drop lines like this. It's the same people who say "I can't believe my taxes are paying for [thing I don't like here]!" Sure dude, all $50 of your dollars are paying for exactly the thing you aren't watching because that's how corporate accounting works.
This is a ridiculous argument. No, a service you pay directly for is not the same as taxes which go to public goods. A tax is something we give up for a public good to help all others in our communities.
This is a service we are directly paying for and it is absolutely valid to criticize it if the value being offered no longer matches the $50/year i put in at the beginning of this year because I trusted the crew to make things that would be worth it to me.
Giant Bomb Premium is not a charity donation or a tax. It's not something you pay no matter what with the trust that it will help others. It's a subscription service you pay in return for access to a service. If that service stops offering the value you expect it is absolutely valid to criticize it. You might as well say I can't complain if a restaurant gets my order wrong or when the PS+ or Humble Choice games for the month are all bad.
And, personally, I'm not seeing much value in the direction the site has been headed. Nothing against the Albummer crew personally—they seem like fine folks—but I came to Giant Bomb for 13 years because it had a central crew of charismatic and compelling buddies who created a slew of original content that played into their friendly rapport. I'm not interested in Giant Bomb becoming a podcast network that hosts a variety of shows from randos entirely disconnected from the core crew of the site.
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