It's clear that there was a lot of dissatisfaction at the Escapist with the annoying monetization attempts and all that, but resigning over the firing of Nick Calandra seemed to be a knee-jerk reaction, without any negotiations, deals, or conviction. He can posture about what a noble goal that is but in real life you're a spiteful little worm and a liability to anyone who hires you in the future.
Firstly it wasn't a knee-jerk reaction, they had an inkling Nick was going to be fired a while before it actually happened. Secondly, he doesn't really need to be hired by anybody else, that's the whole point. The Escapist was a sinking ship, Yahtzee was carrying it on his back. Yahtzee would have been much more profitable if he'd gone independent years ago, but he stuck with The Escapist out of loyalty. Thirdly, Gamurs are the ones who look unprofessional in this situation, not Yahtzee, Nick or anyone who resigned in solidarity with Nick.
Gamurs are an out-of-touch corporate entity with poor business acumen (they thought buying The Mary Sue was a good investment, for fuck's sake) who came in and started making demands on the existing team that were just completely unreasonable. This isn't 2004 any more. They wanted to get blood out of a stone, the market share for the business just isn't there any more, there are very few avenues for growth. The best they can do is what the existing team were doing, which was putting out a consistent product and maintaining a loyal fanbase. Gamurs came in, pissed all over that and fired Nick, which is actually interfering with Yahtzee's ability to effectively do his job. So he quit. He was right to do so.
which he almost certainly didn't.
Are you privy to all their communications? Because Nick and Yahtzee certainly
discussed getting the ZP rights back from Gamurs. Gamurs suggested they wanted an exorbitant fee for the property, even though they have no plans to do anything with the property,
can't really do anything with the property, and Yahtzee fucking created it in the first place.
I dont think he enjoys it, so much is the only shit he can do
He can and does do other things. He does a weekly review show because it's easy work that pays him stable money
who sucks at everything else he dipped his fingers into (his games are "okay" at best, his gaming bar flopped hard, his Game Damage show didnt get passed the pilot and was so bad no TV chanell wanted to pick it up, his books are also mostly "meh"), so this shit is only thing he has left.
Considering the massive mounds of shit that's out there, his games merely being 'okay' is decent enough praise, bars and restaurants are generally massive moneyholes that are difficult for
most people to pull off successfully (this is why shows like Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares are so popular), who the fuck needs a gaming TV show when YouTube and Twitch exist and as for his books, regardless of what you think of them, he's had six novels published by a legitimate publisher, that's more than most get. St Martin's Press is already deeply regretting publishing Lindsay Ellis' Starscream trash fic, for example.
He was also considered for a position at Valve, wrote a draft of the script for Did Not Finish and wrote dialogue for Watch Dogs: Legion
That's hardly failing at everything else he's ever tried.
