Chazore said:
They lost their touch around the start of the mid 10's (we really need a better terminology for our current time frame), when they started taking on new staff and moderators. Since then, they've largely been more in for ads, click bait articles and spamming a Ubisoft style copy+paste approach to gaming news, to pad out their site and make it look like they've got something new going. These days, you'll see them trying so hard to cover console like news, for a site that is meant to be the forefront of PC gaming news. They recently tried to cover an article on a GTA SA spiderman mod, trying to claim it's close as we're going to get to the PS4 game. Needless to say we all laughed at the editor (even on Twitter), for trying to suggest something so silly, let alone covering it. I'm all for mod coverage, but for real, I want in depth reviews, benchmarks, settings guides, and talks about the differences between the ports, like DF does and still remains as the one group that do that sort of thing. All we want, are PC topics, PC benchmarks, PC modding, talks more of upcoming tech, and old tech that we once used. Instead we're left with recycled garbage and a refusal to change course. That's more or less why I decided to view DSOG more often, because they actually do cover mods, they cover benchmarks and settings, metrics of game performance etc. They actually do care about those things, and I champion them for it. If PCG is to ever change, they need to let all their editors go, and hire some actual veterans, not wannabe vets that got old and basically lost their initial thought process, on what PC gaming actually is. I know there are plenty out there, who grew old and basically adopted a thought process, that isn't like PC gaming, but more of couch gaming, and a desire to simplify everything, but not every part of PC gaming has to be over simplified and cut back. Sorry for the long wall, I've just had a hate for PCG for a few years now, and I want them to return to the way they once were. |
Yes, exactly! That coverage of a mod for GTA SA, just because Spiderman is PS4 exclusive is just juvenile! Who the heck does that?
Yeah, a lot of their editors seem to pretty much just play the same handful of never ending team based shooters. People that write for a major website should be playing as many different genres as possible. "Been playing Team Fortress and Counterstrike for the last ten years. Currently spending an hour a night on Fortnite before going to bed at 9pm." is not an acceptable resume for writing about games.
Honestly it sounds like PCG is suffering from the same decline that plagued IGN. They got to be so successful that they are synonymous with games, and now they don't really have to try.
