Not having a public opinion was something drilled into me early in my PR days, and it's always been a bitter pill. I mean, I get it, but it's hard.
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If I ever ditched PR, do you think I'd find my feet again in the writing and content scene? Do I stream? Is that the thing now for ageing journalists? Or would I stay pure and keep to the written word?
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Where do I even find my next foray? Freelance again? Magazines are dead, the Big Three are sort of shells of themselves - and there's so much NOISE from all directions online.
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I still believe quality will always find an audience. But can you cut a cheque without sponsorship these days? A commercial acumen is almost essential. Having been the guy negotiating those deals for streamers, I can tell you that the audience size matters more than quality.
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That's a generalisation, to be sure, but I can tell you - a lot of the brands out there have dramatically and perhaps irreversibly changed their view of the value of certain types of coverage.
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Anyway - yeah. Writing about games again. I'd like to do it. I always believe that if you think you have more to offer than other people and can do it better, then you owe it to yourself to try. So we'll see. Thanks, TED Talk, etc.
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PS - the last thing the industry needs is another white, 30-something male content creator standing in front of a shelf full of games. So, maybe that's the Ultimate Truth™.
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Replying to @PatchKolan
While I agree with you on this point, I try to look at it more altruistic way - if one other person reads or wants to write cos of reading, that’s no bad thing. You have to be true to you and if it’s something you miss start a random blog to let it flow
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One guy I know occasionally does reviews by using photo mode or art from within the games to let his voice go and I think that’s great and a way to do it differently
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@GamejunkieNZ is the guy who’s done it before. Also @GeekeryNZ posts a lot of images from games on his feed and I think sometimes those do much better than trite words I write ever could.
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I did it for my review of MFS for
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I think you’ve done it before for others too. Anyway, you should know I remembered the MO
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