THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: ferrarimanf355 on November 20, 2008, 06:22:44 PM

Title: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on November 20, 2008, 06:22:44 PM
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21209

Ya know, if those "extended interviews" were part of the actual mag, this may not be happening. Just a thought.
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 20, 2008, 06:25:14 PM
Is there even anyone left who actually pays money for a subscription to EGM?
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: drohne on November 20, 2008, 06:25:22 PM
so much for my free subscription running several months past the end of time
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: Vizzys on November 20, 2008, 06:27:16 PM
the latest egm showed up in my mailbox a few days ago, Im not sure why as I dont remember signing up for it again

i gave it a read and its pretty terrible, short as hell too, maybe 60 pages of content, 30 pages of advertisements

also I noticed the word otaku used at least 4 times
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on November 20, 2008, 06:28:08 PM
Is there even anyone left who actually pays money for a subscription to EGM?
Why bother when most of that stuff is online, anyways?  :yuck
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: Great Rumbler on November 20, 2008, 06:39:50 PM
Is there even anyone left who actually pays money for a subscription to EGM?
Why bother when most of that stuff is online, anyways?  :yuck

It's free!
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: trippingmartian on November 20, 2008, 06:40:36 PM
I have a paid subscription but in my mind it's only a gesture to support their awesome podcasts. The magazine is alright content-wise, but it's really sad to compare the binding, size and paper quality to that of Edge or even Play. Also: please do away with carded ads that you can't remove without destroying the binding of the mag. Play and Edge seem to get by fine without them.
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: drew on November 20, 2008, 06:49:23 PM
dont care
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: pilonv1 on November 20, 2008, 07:05:05 PM
i cant even remember the last time egm was relevant

oh yes i can - never

sad to see people lose their jobs though
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: littlemathletics on November 20, 2008, 07:18:16 PM
Sucks, but I'm not at all shocked if this is true.
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: Don Flamenco on November 20, 2008, 07:27:12 PM
i cant even remember the last time egm was relevant

oh yes i can - never

sad to see people lose their jobs though

I can-- when they were 300 pages long and provided game genie boss codes for SF2 for the snes. I loved that shit when I was a kid, read every word.

I flipped through one a few months ago and it was like looking at an anorexic supermodel - pretty in some senses of the word (nice pics and designs), but completely malnourished and thin.
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: Rman on November 20, 2008, 07:34:55 PM
Play is actually in better shape financially, considerably. 
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: drew on November 20, 2008, 07:41:27 PM
i cant even remember the last time egm was relevant

oh yes i can - when i was 13 years old

fixed
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on November 20, 2008, 08:00:45 PM
Play is actually in better shape financially, considerably. 
REALLY?  How's that work?
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: Don Flamenco on November 20, 2008, 08:45:32 PM
Play is actually in better shape financially, considerably. 
REALLY?  How's that work?

taking bribes from every videogame and anime company on earth. 
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: tiesto on November 20, 2008, 08:52:46 PM
Yeah, the 300-400 page EGM's in the mid 90's were fucking awesome. The newer ones are boring.
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: Eel O'Brian on November 20, 2008, 09:03:51 PM
the only way i could see a gaming mag surviving for any length of time is if it were a weekly newspaper-styled mag, and even then it wouldn't have the longest lifespan

print isn't dead, but it's definitely on life support

a few years from now when e-paper readers are dirt cheap and in color, then you can call time of death on print
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on November 20, 2008, 10:43:31 PM
EGM is such garbage now. It takes me like 5 minutes to read through because it has so little content.
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: cool breeze on November 20, 2008, 10:44:30 PM
fuck

hopefully the powerful new parts I got since doing the first one help me out.  Do you know if homing rockets lock onto the patches?
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on November 20, 2008, 10:45:58 PM
lol owned
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on November 20, 2008, 10:50:35 PM
I figured it was inevitable.
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: Bocsius on November 20, 2008, 11:13:48 PM
Conjuring a tear.... wait for it...

Nope. I've got nothing.
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 20, 2008, 11:43:03 PM
Are they going to reimburse me for all the issues they still owe me?
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on November 21, 2008, 03:32:52 PM
Play is actually in better shape financially, considerably. 

Those Sega circle jerk sessions are doing their taco-y purpose...  :-\
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: fistfulofmetal on November 21, 2008, 03:35:56 PM
When's PSM gonna get shut down? I keep getting it in the mail and I haven't renewed in like 2 years.
Title: Re: Ziff Davis shuttering EGM?
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on November 21, 2008, 03:40:13 PM
When's PSM gonna get shut down? I keep getting it in the mail and I haven't renewed in like 2 years.
Technically, it did shut down and Future replaced it with their version of the Official Playstation Magazine...