Rumors were true: Joystiq is shut down [Updated with a full news story]

[Game_God]

Burek said:

sundin13 said:

Burek said:

I am sorry, but I cannot agree with you.

While it is the truth that oversupply of gaming website dilluted the quality of journalism considerably, there are still some good journalists that are able to report the news objectively.

I find none of the YouTube personalities that qualify as an objective journalist. They are great if you seek an entirely subjective opinion that you tend to agree with, but are never a source of news themselves (unless they make an effort to make news out of themselves).

I do agree that there is a need for a reduction of gaming websites, there will be nothing good coming out of the abundance of youtubers.

Go on...who are these good journalists? The problem is that I see most sites just regurgitating news instead of writing interesting pieces, which may be totally objective, but that doesn't mean it is good journalism. People like Jim Sterling and TotalBiscuit make some really good content centered around the news that can be fairly thought provoking and interesting. They go into more depth than I almost ever see on normal news sites, and they aren't tied down by the bureaucracy that hampers sites like the Escapist (hence the reason Jim Sterling became independant)

I do not follow any particular journalist with devotion. I just need them to report the news objectively, state the facts and give me information. I am perfectly capable of intelligently forming my opinion based on objective inputs, instead of having some "youtuber" make an opinion for me.

I tried to watch Sterling, watched a few episodes until he started whining about adblock and begging for money, same as Boogie and a few more. Booohooohoo, we are starving because of you adblocking us. They certainly don't look like they are starving.

Limp Bizkit got offended because some people dared to criticize him, so he just blocked comments - because if you already have formed opinions on everything, no need for user feedback.

And that PukeyPie is just an irritating moron.

And all of them and more combined managed to create an entire population of gamers who only care about bad news, controversy and shitting on things they don't like and they disagree with. Too bad that an entire generation forgot how to read, so that these guys can thrive in talking bullshit to likeminded drones.

So, I am sad that Joystiq is gone, as they actually bothered to give me some news about games, instead trying to force feed me their agendas. 

I agree 1000% with what you said except the last sentence, but then again, I hadn't visited the site for over 7 or 8 years, may be they had changed for the better, because back then they clearly were biased morons...

I particularly agree with this: "And all of them and more combined managed to create an entire population of gamers who only care about bad news, controversy and shitting on things they don't like and they disagree with. Too bad that an entire generation forgot how to read, so that these guys can thrive in talking bullshit to likeminded drones."

That's gold baby!!!