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The New Games Journalism, Same As The Old Games Journalism - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
submitted 1 year ago by Goronmon to c/games
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[–] jedibob5 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's funny that Aftermath is writing about bad game journalism practices when they themselves have an initial "you must register to read our articles," but then after registration, hit you with an actual hard paywall after a couple of articles.

If they want to paywall their content, that is their prerogative, but they could at least be up-front about it, instead of only telling me about it after I went through the trouble of creating an account.

[–] hybridhavoc 4 points 1 year ago

I think there may be some room for improvement on messaging there.

[–] Goronmon -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not entirely sure what connection your comment has to the article itself?

[–] Zahille7 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aftermath is a crap site that also practices the things they complain about?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I quite enjoy this site. On my journey to replace a lot of my content consumption with RSS feeds, Aftermath found a home in my RSS reader. We are human and humans can be hypocrites but there’s no need to dismiss an entire publication because of a single author's hypocritical stance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

RSS feeds?

What year is it?

[–] Goronmon -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where in the article did they complain about registration or paywalls?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

How would they fucking know? The article is behind a paywall!

[–] Goronmon 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly, I hadn't realized there was a paywall on the article after having signed up a couple weeks ago.

I'll actually avoid posting their articles here then. Thanks for the callout.

Edit: Though I'm still interested in hearing about where they are hypocritical. People keep saying Aftermath writers say paywalls are bad, but I haven't seen that anywhere that I've noticed.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

LOL! I hope OP replies to this. Something makes me think /u/[email protected] wont.

Edit: Ah, OP admitted to being a shill! This is a rare occurrence. Let's continue to observe

[–] Goronmon 3 points 1 year ago

Ah, OP admitted to being a shill! This is a rare occurrence. Let’s continue to observe

I don't think you know what "shill" means...