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Hmmm, something going on with PC Gamer?
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Toots
Gold Member
Firestartah
Banned
If by "something going on" you mean throating companies balls deep for that dollar, then yes.
Laptop1991
Member
They lost their integrity a long time ago, i don't even visit PC gamer anymore, paid for by the media machine like all the others.
Roman Empire
Member
We are not the forum on the other side of the fence. We are free say it how it is. I guess our guy didn't get the memorandum.Did you really censor "crap" ?
Digital-Aftertaste
Gold Member
The only gaming journalism site that can be trusted is the consumer. Famitsu still holds some value due to the way it operates but even that can run the risk of bribery.
PeteBull
Member
They are well known sellouts, especially for woke games.Hmmm... conspiracy or just c**p taste in games?
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Mozzarella
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Morgan Park the slop consumer
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Sentenza
Member
It's not a new trend.
PC Gamer has been notorious to be a den of shills for years at this point.
It was especially egregious by the time they started taking Epic money for sponsorship and all of the sudden all they talked about was "what a great deal" the EGS was for devs and gamers and how uncomfortable they were with Steam's popularity...
Only to occasionally change tune recently when the money dried and people made clear they weren't too fond of the shilling.
PC Gamer has been notorious to be a den of shills for years at this point.
It was especially egregious by the time they started taking Epic money for sponsorship and all of the sudden all they talked about was "what a great deal" the EGS was for devs and gamers and how uncomfortable they were with Steam's popularity...
Only to occasionally change tune recently when the money dried and people made clear they weren't too fond of the shilling.
Randall365
Member
I subscribed for ages until they started putting a bunch of woke crap in. It was not ever present either - just smattered enough that it was annoying.
The Hogwarts review was the final straw:
"Usually it’s an uncomplicated thing when games are good. We like them, they surprise us, I write about it, it's fun. But the fun of Hogwarts Legacy forms a unique set of conflicted feelings: I’m enjoying a game that’s an extension of JK Rowling, a powerful person who's used their platform to make transphobic comments in the last several years, applying her wealth and fame to promote an ideology that rejects and further marginalizes one of society's most vulnerable communities.
Hogwarts Legacy isn't written by JK Rowling or directly adapted from her stories. In fact, Warner Bros. and Portkey Games (the game publishing arm of Harry Potter properties) go as far as to say that she was "not involved in the creation of the game" at all. Still, it's built upon the world that she created and inherits some of its problems, particularly its portrayal of goblins and "house elves". Its success is likely to benefit her both culturally and financially....
Hogwarts also doesn't have the luxury of just being a videogame. It's so rare that we get a licensed, blockbuster game like this—one that mostly delivers on the enormous scale of an intricate fantasy world that's had decades to develop in our minds and on film. But Avalanche Software's achievement is dented by its association with a creator who has wielded their power and fortune to undercut the legal and social acceptance of trans people.
What could've been a pure moment of celebration for a series that's overdue for a great videogame is complicated by the fact that its success is a win for JK Rowling, and all the bad feelings associated with the desire to play the cool new wizard RPG."
In what world do they think the types of blokes who were into PC gaming in the 90s want to read this shit?
I do wonder whether a PC mag similar to PC Zone would thrive these days - just a pseudo lad's mag with a load of humour and pretty scathingly honest. Maybe not - maybe PC Gamer make more money like this.
The Hogwarts review was the final straw:
"Usually it’s an uncomplicated thing when games are good. We like them, they surprise us, I write about it, it's fun. But the fun of Hogwarts Legacy forms a unique set of conflicted feelings: I’m enjoying a game that’s an extension of JK Rowling, a powerful person who's used their platform to make transphobic comments in the last several years, applying her wealth and fame to promote an ideology that rejects and further marginalizes one of society's most vulnerable communities.
Hogwarts Legacy isn't written by JK Rowling or directly adapted from her stories. In fact, Warner Bros. and Portkey Games (the game publishing arm of Harry Potter properties) go as far as to say that she was "not involved in the creation of the game" at all. Still, it's built upon the world that she created and inherits some of its problems, particularly its portrayal of goblins and "house elves". Its success is likely to benefit her both culturally and financially....
Hogwarts also doesn't have the luxury of just being a videogame. It's so rare that we get a licensed, blockbuster game like this—one that mostly delivers on the enormous scale of an intricate fantasy world that's had decades to develop in our minds and on film. But Avalanche Software's achievement is dented by its association with a creator who has wielded their power and fortune to undercut the legal and social acceptance of trans people.
What could've been a pure moment of celebration for a series that's overdue for a great videogame is complicated by the fact that its success is a win for JK Rowling, and all the bad feelings associated with the desire to play the cool new wizard RPG."
In what world do they think the types of blokes who were into PC gaming in the 90s want to read this shit?
I do wonder whether a PC mag similar to PC Zone would thrive these days - just a pseudo lad's mag with a load of humour and pretty scathingly honest. Maybe not - maybe PC Gamer make more money like this.
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Laptop1991
Member
PC Zone was my no 1 mag to buy back in the day, far more than PC Gamer, great magazine, i bought so many PC games based on their honest reviews, sad day when it shut down.
HerjansEagleFeeder
Member
That's just the times we live in. You see it everywhere, from politics to scientific paper peer reviews. It affects everything and everyone. Brace yourselfs for the future. Could be a bumpy road.
Aguero9320
Member
Weird to add Shadows in here as evidence of anything when you haven’t played it…
Randall365
Member
PC Gamer did incorporate it for a while - some of the writers etc as I recall (and the PC Zone people had come from Zero before). Sad that it changed over the years from something I would pay for to something I would cringe reading, but there you go.
Quite a leap from Charlie Brooker writing amusing reviews about truck simulators and David McCandless making fun of the ultra violence in Syndicate Wars, to reviews of games where dads date other dads, complaining that they do not show the dads fucking each other.
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BennyBlanco
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A. Their list of top 100 PC games didn’t have AoE, C&C, or Diablo in the top 10
B. They’re british
B. They’re british
RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
Their alarm goes off and they see the clock shows 5:40 - oh shit oh shit 5:40 I gotta go! no time!
Randall365
Member
This is the type of thing PC Zone were doing:
Compare that to the Hogwarts nonsense and you wonder what went wrong.
Compare that to the Hogwarts nonsense and you wonder what went wrong.
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Matt_Fox
Member
Evidence of shilling? Three near identical headlines for games that require 'damage control'.
MiguelItUp
Member
Used to love PC Gamer baaaaack in the days, like the demo disc and Coconut Monkey era. But, now I couldn't care less about them. I mean, honestly that goes with majority of game related news/blog websites.
bender
What time is it?
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
They’ve certainly been competing to take the “woke clickbait trash” crown from Kotaku. Maybe they’re even the market leader now that Kotaku laid off so much staff including Alyssa Mercante.
Windle Poons
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
EDGE and PC Gamer went down the drain some time ago.
Retro Gamer is the only good thing going at the min from Future though they do have their moments from time to time.
Retro Gamer is the only good thing going at the min from Future though they do have their moments from time to time.
Holammer
Member
Upton Sinclair 1878–1968. American novelist and social reformer. It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
PC Gamer (and other publications) depend on advertising revenue and if they get shit listed by publishers they don't have a story.
Remember then Kane & Lynch review debacle when it got a generous but deserved 6/10 while Gamespot was running an ad campaign for the game? What a shit show.
PC Gamer (and other publications) depend on advertising revenue and if they get shit listed by publishers they don't have a story.
Remember then Kane & Lynch review debacle when it got a generous but deserved 6/10 while Gamespot was running an ad campaign for the game? What a shit show.
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Aguero9320
Member
Not buying it. You said ‘evidence of crap taste in games’ without playing it. Hard to take you seriously claiming someone has an agenda when you clearly display one yourself?Evidence of shilling? Three near identical headlines for games that require 'damage control'.
That aside, it’s evidence of a lack of creativity in headline writing and nothing more. There were people in here that liked Concord too… Opinions, everyone has ‘em.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
I mean, sometimes it's shilling, some times just clickbait (whether positive or negative reacting to something). Love how folks only notice it when they feel threatened but are perfectly fine with it when it aligns with their biases. How about that Epic Games Store shilling they went all in previously?
Neon Xenon
Member
Yeah. I dropped PC Gamer a long time ago.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
PC Gamer has been a shill rag for some time. When EGS Store came on the scene they were writing negative Steam articles, constantly.
No PC gamer should give them the time of day.
No PC gamer should give them the time of day.
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graywolf323
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83 / 100 - Hogwarts LegacyMorgan Park the slop consumer
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Feb 11, 2023
Hogwarts Legacy is a great game haunted by a terrible creator.
Dorfdad
Gold Member
Let’s all be honest for a second. The way the industry was heading and is it revolves around first takes now. There is so much emphasis on hot takes instead of reviews. Game reviewers are relant on getting games demos and interviews from developers for clicks.
If you’re harsh and combative against a specific game or genre you are going to be left out of the hype train plain and simple.
Are there exceptions yeah a few deep state people with insider info, but 95% of them need to developer relationship.
This is why I have been waiting for 2nd and third patches for most of my games now. Releases and europhia usually sku the initial releases.
I don’t blame them and I just watch the videos and try to figure out if it feels like something I’m interested in. As for Assasins creed I know I will like it as I’m generally a fan and f this genre and the setting looks excellent. I loved Valhalla so maybe I’m the problem lol..
If you’re harsh and combative against a specific game or genre you are going to be left out of the hype train plain and simple.
Are there exceptions yeah a few deep state people with insider info, but 95% of them need to developer relationship.
This is why I have been waiting for 2nd and third patches for most of my games now. Releases and europhia usually sku the initial releases.
I don’t blame them and I just watch the videos and try to figure out if it feels like something I’m interested in. As for Assasins creed I know I will like it as I’m generally a fan and f this genre and the setting looks excellent. I loved Valhalla so maybe I’m the problem lol..
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Hey Deepseek, tell me more!Hmmm... conspiracy or just c**p taste in games?
Moon Grape Donut
Member
Paid advertising, basically. Happens a lot with reviews/previews.
No BBC=Anger
Member
I got a stack of them (15) online awhile back 2021-2024, and they're just kind of meh. And also went on a mad one late last year and bought loads of old game mags online. I was surprised just how well the condition most of them were in. 20 year old mags that felt like they were released last month. UK titles like Arcade and Total Control, Cube Magazine among a few others.
Some sites just rely on what people wanted to read, that's not real news to be frank, it happens in every industry.Hmmm... conspiracy or just c**p taste in games?
Nickolaidas
Member
Let me save you some time.Hmmm... conspiracy or just c**p taste in games?
Go check out which websites gave Veilguard a 9/10.
And never click on those websites ever again.
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