#12953362, By breakablepants Sunsetting the Eurogamer forum

breakablepants 18 Aug 2021 13:19:48 1,118 posts
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Jubilee64 wrote:

myiagros wrote:
Why when EG has 10s of millions of views do they appear have less writing staff than ever, and certainly produce less non-news content than in the site's heyday?
It a real shame online sites basically killed mags and now are quite content to largely just paraphrase press releases and report on whatever's happening on Twitter.
Feels a bit like the mags died in print, now they are disappearing online. Depressing really, having grown up with Crash, CVG, etc. I always felt EG was a continuation of sorts, but this is a bit like killing the letters page and they’ve already scaled back on reviews. I’d more often check the EG forum thread for impressions to get an idea of a new game, right up to stuff like returnal and demons souls.

The bottom line is that it's very hard to make money from websites, and EG has been heavily dependent on EGX so when coronavirus leads everything to be cancelled it's an absolute killer as it's not something that can be replicated as an online event.

Hard to know if EG's new(ish) owners also have the stomach to invest in more writers if the returns are uncertain. EG is not the only site going through this; I know a few websites which have been shut down in the past 18 months.

You can't escape the fact that good journalism costs money, and readers expect everything for free.