There's an irony that Mixtape a fake nostalgia walking simulator is producing real nostalgia in the remaining game journalists from all the old Websites for back when they were relevant. "Remember when we could shill a game like Gone Home and the chumps would buy it? Those were the days."
There's two ways Culture War impacts games that means it matters even if you hate politics and wish it didn't exist:
The same Lewis Parker that would call gamers "chuds" and "dipshits". He'll also simp-defend Anita Sarkeesian.
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I haven't finished it but the character was fine. The thing that really, really felt like Sweet Baby shit was when she was in a diner and asked potential witnesses for information about a ritualistic killing and a couple of tourists, a very normie-coded upper middle class black couple that loves hiking in the woods, felt the need to start with "oh no we don't trust popo, what if you frame us for crimes we didn't commit because police always do that to black people!" before following up with "Anyway, we were around that area during day/time and..." That felt incredibly forced.
As much as I hate to, I kinda agree with him. Fans have been wanting more of the SNES game but this game feels like it's a Locoroco-adjacent arthouse/edutainment game for five year olds. Some of the design style is cool, but I'm over stop-motion crap. Woolly World was okay but was them stepping in the direction of infantilizing their games. Yoshi's Isand DS had some weird dev decisions, but was the closestt we got to a proper expounding iteration and that's been 20 years now.
We are 17 years and 80% of the industry dying into "maybe they'll go away if we ignore them"
Wait, they weren't already taking into account clicks? These people were posting this shit not as simply outrage bait to get hate clicks? No performance metrics whatsoever for their shit? These fucking outlets were paying these people for nothing this whole time?aaaand then urinialist freakout over big corpo isn’t going to keep supporting their activist asses anymore.
Well if no one is viewing the shit, why the fuck should they get paid?
And why wouldn't there be a limit? These articles aren't getting fuck all for views after a month. There's no reason to need to go back and track every fucking click per article per author for eternity.
And that's where the zero pay comes from. If you couldn't even fucking generate 1000 views... WHY IS YOUR ARTICLE THERE?
Yet another reason to archive everything and link to the archive, not to the original.
This phrasing makes it sound like this is all on top of a base pay per click, but doesn't seem like they're doing work for nothing. I think the way they're framing this is that they might not get paid, but what I think it really is there's a threshold for payout overall. It's very common in freelance commissions based work digitally now.
Yes, they have to hit the 1000 view threshold to get their first $5 per thousand views and they get 15 days to do it. So to get paid now, they'll have to write articles people actually want to read instead of this non-existent audience of theirs.
The article is written very poorly and/or intentionally to obfuscate the fact that they're still getting paid for work, just not on their schedule. Probably both to be honest, but journos would be the first to do some class action suit if they didn't get paid so I find it laughable.
