after the extra credits scandal, nothing is happening to Yahtzee right?

[staika]

If the escapist had to choose one show to pay it would be ZP, its the biggest source of traffic for the site and the reason a lot of people came to this site. Besides do you see what every Wednesday is like, the escapist gets really slow because of all the people coming to watch ZP and they couldn't survive a blow that big if ZP were to leave.

 

[twiceworn]

No Yahtzee, no escapist. They'll keep paying him to the bitter end.

THIS! 100 PERCENT THIS!!

No Yahtzee and this site is gone in a year

 

[Zantos]

Yahtzee sucks, all he does is bash good games for laughs instead of giving reviews. Ya I know Escapist does reviews already, but Yahtzee just seems like a dull, unfunny, cynical asshole who needs to take some Ritalin.

You do know that he doesn't just make the videos. He also writes articles and I think I heard somewhere he contributes to one or two others.

OT: He's still here as far as we can tell, don't think they're going to let anything happen to him.

 

[Harrowdown]

I'd assume that if the escapist are paying anyone, it'll be their number one attraction. Nonetheless, who knows what might happen?

TBH, I wouldn't be surprised if the money he commands, which they are probably always paying on time, is part of what put The Escapist in this mess to begin with. They don't want to lose the person who drives the majority of the site's traffic, so they pay him what he wants, even if, when combined with the cost of maintenance, it's too high to support most of their other content.

Though in the spirit of full disclosure, I used to like Yahtzee, but haven't for a long time, and I honestly wouldn't miss ZP much at all if it left.

I don't imagine that an internet critic, however popular he may be, could actually summon the star power to demand enough money to bankrupt a website. Then again, the escapist isn't exactly microsoft, so it might not take much.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Yahtzee sucks, all he does is bash good games for laughs instead of giving reviews. Ya I know Escapist does reviews already, but Yahtzee just seems like a dull, unfunny, cynical asshole who needs to take some Ritalin.

Har har, personally attacking someone that you've never met in real life. Good ol Internet.


Oh yeah, like the other guy said before me, you think that the reviews that other people give are sincere? The perfect 9s and 10s to games like Modern Warfare or Halo?

I'm not attacking anyone. I'm just calling 'em how I see 'em. And reviews are ALWAYS biased no matter what, unless you have never played any videogame or seen any movie you are always biased, but reviewers always get into the thing they're reviewing by loving what the medium is like Movie Bob. If someone likes Fist Person Shooters but thinks Role Playing Games are boring and they've always hated them, there's always a little bad speaking for RPG's and vice versa. The people review sites usually get to review a type of game have always loved that type of game.

He's not a reviewer, he's a critic. Critic's CRITICIZE. They're supposed to point out what's wrong in a game...

OT: I really doubt Yahtzee is leaving. He likes it here. Probably.