Vincent Kinian

@Video_Game_King

Verified King of Video Games and a certified master Esper. Also a writer for and several other places.

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: travanj 2013.

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    16. lip 2015.
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  2. prije 2 sata

    There's something deeply unsettling about how the gaps between these stories decreases exponentially fast. (From: )

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  3. prije 6 sati

    Plus the blogosphere of the 2000s/early 2010s more or less evaporated once the privatization of the Internet hit full swing...things are looking pretty bleak, huh?

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  4. prije 6 sati

    Bad news: people outside those channels are in an even worse financial position than those within them, so it's not clear how long they can afford to keep creating and what options there even are to prolong it.

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  5. prije 6 sati

    All this appears to suggest that really challenging work is going to have to come from outside the channels we're used to seeing them from. Good news: the talent is already out there, critically speaking.

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  6. prije 6 sati

    ....meaning large platforms likely aren't going to be in a position to push the envelope with what they publish. Worse still, it's unlikely that any of the individuals at these platforms are going to mingle with anybody outside the system - they're constitutionally opposed to it.

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  7. prije 6 sati

    OK, so where does any of this leave us? What's going to become of video game criticism in the 2020s? And that...is a very good question. I don't see the larger trend of corporate dismantling going away any time soon (if anything, it's gonna get more aggressive)...

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  8. prije 6 sati

    - Much more aligned with money and power than it cares to admit, and in fact motivated to maintain this proximity; recreates the very hierarchies it purports to be invested in dismantling.

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  9. prije 6 sati

    - Symbolic victories within the system celebrated, any attempts to address problems or push for material change of the system itself looked upon reticently if not outright negatively.

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  10. prije 6 sati

    - Groups not within the establishment exist mainly as talking points rather than actors in their own right, either spoken over/for by more authoritative voices or outright criticized if they disrupt the status quo.

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  11. prije 6 sati

    - (Similarly, a prevailing belief that change must/can only be accomplished through following the proper procedure, IE by changing the system slowly and doing as little as possible to disrupt the status quo.)

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  12. prije 6 sati

    - Appeals to solidarity and unity often equate to deference to those in power, who are thought to represent this space and its best interests IE a soft paternalism.

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  13. prije 6 sati

    These tensions haven't really healed, by the way. All they've done is gone dormant. And it's not like I'm completely outside them. Hell, I was considering doing a thread on how similar mainstream game criticism is to the Democratic party, but I'll just blast the talking points.

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  14. prije 6 sati

    *(And by "groups", I'm not just referring to writers, since altgame developers occupy a similar (sometimes overlapping) role to lesser known writers.)

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  15. prije 6 sati

    ...but because the people writing for those platforms get to set the terms, they largely keep to themselves and do as little as possible to rock the boat (read: take risks that would benefit anybody who isn't as well established as a major publisher).

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  16. prije 6 sati

    As the situation continued and as this division became more apparent, it started to open up long-existing tensions between the two groups* where small writers and game developers are forced to operate on larger platforms' terms if they're going to get anywhere...

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  17. prije 6 sati

    Once the story broke, it was the lesser known writers with much more to risk who kept it in public view. Many of the big voices who theoretically represent this space kept silent on the issue for as long as they could. Hell, Critical Distance never said anything about it.

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  18. prije 6 sati

    The fact that several of Kotaku's writers had enough job security to land on their feet after all this indicates as much, and I can think of a few minor examples here and there that reinforce it. However, the big example I have in mind is the Nathalie Lawhead story.

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  19. prije 6 sati

    That being said, it's not like mainstream game writing's slow decline was entirely due to external factors. In fact, just as big media firms were swooping in, contradictions and divisions that many of us have been encouraged to ignore finally became too big to gloss over.

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  20. prije 6 sati

    All the people slowly trickling out while they still can tells us we're pretty close to the last stages of the field's death throes.

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  21. prije 6 sati

    The advertising-driven model of funding got gutted when Facebook skewed the numbers in its favor, and digital publishing has been slowly lurching forward for years until now, when larger conglomerates could swoop in and salvage the carcass.

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