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Humble_Novice 03/22/24 5:50:08 AM #1: |
https://aftermath.site/kotaku-eic-resigns-over-new-editorial-edict
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kotaku-editor-jen-glennon-quits-calls-go-media-ceo-jim-spanfeller-a-herb-on-her-way-out https://www.gamesindustry.biz/kotaku-editor-in-chief-exits-due-to-parent-companys-new-guide-directive --- Miss the old GameFAQs politics board? Then come here to discuss it with us: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamefaqs261/ ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Guide 03/22/24 5:52:21 AM #2: |
I'm nobody's fool.
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Karovorak 03/22/24 5:58:38 AM #3: |
And then we get these quality guides like
"How to get Weapon X" "Complete Quest A by NPC B in Location C". We already have enough of these bot created google baits. --- Planning is the process of replacing chance with error. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Rika_Furude 03/22/24 6:00:51 AM #4: |
Just copy Fandom and generate content with AI ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Axiom 03/22/24 6:07:35 AM #5: |
Wtf why guides. Do they think that's where the money is. Did they forget wikis youtube and even gamefaqs already exists ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Rika_Furude 03/22/24 6:09:54 AM #6: |
Axiom posted... Wtf why guides. Do they think that's where the money is. Did they forget wikis youtube and even gamefaqs already existsad revenue for having entire pages (or even multiple) on how to do things like Karovorak posted... "How to get Weapon X" and yes pages like that do exist. dunno about kotaku, ive found random ones in google searches ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Dark_Arbron 03/22/24 6:11:17 AM #7: |
The Escapist fucked around and found out. Maybe Kotaku is next.
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JasonSehorn 03/22/24 6:11:38 AM #8: |
The new owners killing kotaku sad really but game websites are eh ... Copied to Clipboard!
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action52 03/22/24 6:13:13 AM #9: |
Axiom posted...
Wtf why guides. Do they think that's where the money is. Did they forget wikis youtube and even gamefaqs already existsI think the goal is to churn them out fast so they can always be at the top of the searches. It's a fool's errand. They're just going to overwork and alienate their employees while bringing down the quality of the site. And the AI generated garbage will still be faster, so all their chasing after revenue will generate less clicks. This may just kill off Kotaku. --- "It's Brockin' time." Erin Brockovich, Erin Brockovich ... Copied to Clipboard!
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CADE_FOSTER 03/22/24 6:16:26 AM #10: |
Rika_Furude posted... Just copy Fandom and generate content with AIi mean most of them gonna quit and then thats probably what they will do ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Karovorak 03/22/24 6:19:01 AM #11: |
Rika_Furude posted...
ad revenue for having entire pages (or even multiple) on how to do things like Yeah, it's just to get these hits from google. If someone has a generic question, most people still go to google first. Not Reddit, not Youtube, not GameFAQs. Google. And whatever comes out on top there is able to get the click. No matter how empty the guide, no matter how useless the content. My favorite example was me trying to find out if there is also a rainbow color in Monster Hunter Rise. Ofc, I do a google search: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/a0ad44fc.jpg The article starts with what Rainbow Color in Monster Hunter IS. This snipped baits you into believing that there is a guide behind, only to end with "sadly, it doesn't exist in Monster Hunter Rise so far." They don't have to answer your question efficently, they have to make you click on them efficently, just from the few lines you see on google. --- Planning is the process of replacing chance with error. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Irony 03/22/24 6:44:30 AM #12: |
Probably Pocket Tactics shit
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CyricZ 03/22/24 6:51:48 AM #13: |
Just noting that they do have a guide writing staff, let's say around 25 people.
That's still two full guides a week. Every week. For comparison, I'm on Week Eight of my Infinite Wealth guide, writing about four hours a day. If my livelihood hinged on making two full guides a week, my writing quality would be the first thing to go, followed by my love of writing. --- CyricZ He/him http://twitch.tv/cyricz42 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Dark_Arbron 03/22/24 6:53:52 AM #14: |
CyricZ posted...
Just noting that they do have a guide writing staff, let's say around 25 people. I used to have a love of writing. Then I had one too many cases of staring at a blank page unable to start even the first word before I realized it wasnt for me and packed it in. --- "How is that a religious topic? That's just me talking about GOD." -Frostmourne ... Copied to Clipboard!
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RamenNoodles 03/22/24 6:58:33 AM #15: |
Theyre literally copying the Fextralife model ... Copied to Clipboard!
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AlephZero 03/22/24 7:24:20 AM #16: |
wow can't believe kotaku would stoop so low and have low quality content
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Trelve 03/22/24 7:28:31 AM #17: |
Maybe they can now offer something of substance instead of bottom of the barrel clickbait "journalism". ... Copied to Clipboard!
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CyricZ 03/22/24 8:51:03 AM #19: |
AlephZero posted...
wow can't believe kotaku would stoop so low and have low quality contentEvery major news site with a "guides" section is doing this. Kotaku is awful but they're not remotely alone. --- CyricZ He/him http://twitch.tv/cyricz42 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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LightHawKnight 03/22/24 9:50:10 AM #20: |
Why do people even go to craptaku anymore? The only good journalist they had was Jason Schreier.
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JasonSehorn 03/22/24 12:15:07 PM #21: |
Apparently alot of the former Kotaku people created their own site https://aftermath.site/ ... Copied to Clipboard!
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aarrgus 03/22/24 12:17:35 PM #22: |
That's 10 flippin' guides a day?
Either you are writing one paragraph explanations on how to do something simple or you will have to basically copy the guides somewhere else. Ridiculous. --- Last night I was lying in bed, staring at the stars, and I wondered... Where the **** is my roof? ... Copied to Clipboard!
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refmon 03/22/24 12:25:44 PM #23: |
I mean it's better than the clickbait crap kotaku normally shits out
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UnholyMudcrab 03/22/24 12:32:13 PM #24: |
This reads to me like the CEO is making up some arbitrary unrealistic rule to force everyone out so he can replace them with AI
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LeCh0nk 03/22/24 12:34:54 PM #25: |
The world needs GameFAQ's, now more than ever.
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s0nicfan 03/22/24 12:36:50 PM #26: |
How long do you think it will take to go from "Kotaku workers expected to write 50 guides a week" to "Kotaku workers expected to fix/edit 50 AI generated guides a week"?
It's sort of feels like they've chosen a metric that basically requires a large language model to cut out most of the actual writing in order to hit. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz ... Copied to Clipboard!
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K181 03/22/24 12:45:22 PM #27: |
I'm assuming 50 guides for the entite staff, right? If so, and you assume 10 to 25 staff members, that's a guide per day at most or two guides per week.
Seems like a not unreasonable output for a paycheck. People write a helluva lot more for assuredly less. If the staff is smaller or 50 per employee though, that's ridiculous. --- Irregardless, for all intensive purposes, I could care less. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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NeonOPPAl 03/22/24 12:47:14 PM #28: |
[LFAQs-redacted-quote]
Me everytime I gotta write a paper. I could never write a guide, let alone 2 full ones a week --- https://imgur.com/aMaI3hj https://imgur.com/7PsdJNc https://imgur.com/eK8vZVn https://imgur.com/u2HR4nG https://imgur.com/nQGM5cZ ... Copied to Clipboard!
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UnholyMudcrab 03/22/24 12:48:16 PM #29: |
K181 posted...
If so, and you assume 10 to 25 staff membersYou would assume wrong. There are seven of them. --- http://i.imgur.com/VeNBg.gif http://i.imgur.com/gd5jC8q.gif http://i.imgur.com/PKIy7.gif http://i.imgur.com/3p29JqP.gif ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Humble_Novice 03/22/24 1:07:42 PM #30: |
Right-wingers are pleased with this because it means Kotaku will be rid of the so-called woke writers and spiral into further irrelevance with gamers.
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josifrees 03/22/24 1:10:59 PM #31: |
fandom in ruins
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IceCreamOnStero 03/22/24 1:52:31 PM #32: |
So they'll just go from writing hack garbage, to vapid slop?
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ellis123 03/22/24 2:01:30 PM #33: |
IceCreamOnStero posted...
So they'll just go from writing hack garbage, to vapid slop?Kotaku's news side of things was pretty legit. It, however, was apparently not making them enough money so they're moving them over to the garbo side of the equation. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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IceCreamOnStero 03/22/24 2:16:13 PM #34: |
ellis123 posted...
Kotaku's news side of things was pretty legit. It, however, was apparently not making them enough money so they're moving them over to the garbo side of the equation.I would not describe it as "pretty legit". --- Dokkan ID: 2365415872 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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LightHawKnight 03/22/24 2:21:27 PM #35: |
IceCreamOnStero posted...
I would not describe it as "pretty legit". I would call it mostly clickbait, well other than Jason Schreier and he left a while ago didnt he? --- The Official Odin of the Shin Megami Tensei IV board. "You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me." ... Copied to Clipboard!
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ellis123 03/22/24 2:52:09 PM #36: |
IceCreamOnStero posted...
I would not describe it as "pretty legit".That is because you cannot discern between Kotaku News and Kotaku everything else. Which is part of the reason Kotaku News stopped getting views, as you are not alone, leading to this current end result. --- "A shouted order to do something of dubious morality with an unpredictable outcome? Thweeet!" My FC is in my profile. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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deoxxys 03/24/24 3:36:08 PM #37: |
50 guides a week is absurd but you got to love The Domino effect
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PraetorXyn 03/24/24 3:39:30 PM #38: |
Karovorak posted...
And then we get these quality guides likeNah. Its worse, as the only way to meet that quota is to plagiarize guides like that that have already been written. --- https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561198052113750 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Humble_Novice 03/24/24 4:08:05 PM #39: |
PraetorXyn posted...
Nah. Its worse, as the only way to meet that quota is to plagiarize guides like that that have already been written.It's definitely going to negatively affect FAQs writers and wiki editors. --- Miss the old GameFAQs politics board? Then come here to discuss it with us: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamefaqs261/ ... Copied to Clipboard!
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CyricZ 03/24/24 4:11:23 PM #40: |
The saddest part of these one-page guides is that they often get abandoned. I find some with collectibles and they... just don't have all of them listed, and the guide is a year old.
If you're forced to constantly be making new pages, it's super easy to just let the old ones hang. --- CyricZ He/him http://twitch.tv/cyricz42 ... Copied to Clipboard!
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boomgetchopped3 03/24/24 4:17:11 PM #41: |
Modern game journalism. No money to be made by site regulars so they turn to content spam.
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Hornswoggled 03/24/24 4:33:50 PM #42: |
Wil Kotaku have a guide for Civ V with the Brave New World expansion pack? ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Lorenzo_2003 03/24/24 4:35:47 PM #43: |
Does this mean Kotaku writers will actually have to start, you know, playing games? --- ... ... Copied to Clipboard!
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solosnake 03/24/24 4:37:11 PM #44: |
They are targeting GAMEFAQS
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Gobstoppers12 03/24/24 4:56:43 PM #45: |
Kotaku has been a massive joke for a long time, now. I think the higher-ups have noticed that the viewership of the site has reduced significantly. Nobody really wants to read about most of the stuff they write about these days.
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Rika_Furude 03/24/24 11:10:26 PM #46: |
Lorenzo_2003 posted... Does this mean Kotaku writers will actually have to start, you know, playing games?No, they will play for 20 minutes in order to get enough content for their 50 guides how to complete step 2 of the tutorial where to find this chest 3 steps behind the exit of tutorial cave (with a paragraph on what a chest is and why youd want to open one) etc ... Copied to Clipboard!
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ProfOaksAide 03/24/24 11:36:41 PM #47: |
*Kotaku staff expected to use ChatGPT to regurgitate (aka plagiarize) GameFAQs guides
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Vyrulisse 03/24/24 11:39:23 PM #48: |
Good. Fuck 'em.
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Kamil 03/24/24 11:40:00 PM #49: |
Searching up walkthroughs on the internet that honestly aren't by Gamefaqs feel like they were written by AI. They all start and end the same way.
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Tyranthraxus 03/24/24 11:43:42 PM #50: |
While playing Unicorn overlord I ran into a guide in the Internet saying you could play as male or female Alain but that it wouldn't affect romance options.
Spoilers you cannot play as female Alain. --- It says right here in Matthew 16:4 "Jesus doth not need a giant Mecha." https://i.imgur.com/dQgC4kv.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard!
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