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[lughnasadh123]

I wonder if those who were laid off participated in the Hogwarts Legacy boycott where if successful would have most likely ended with a massive amount of layoffs.

 

[mdkirby]

Kotaku still exist? Thought they closed months ago

 

[Fake]

And 2024 don't even started and is already the best year of gaming.

 

[missiles]

Always suspicious now when any games writer has a woman's name.

 

[Svejk]

Somebody put it out of it's misery already.

 

[Interfectum]

 

[PharaoTutAnchAmun]

One person does not exactly sound like "round of layoffs"

Its two, so only 3 left...i forsee the end of Kotaku (thank God)
I hope those two find another job...

 

[StreetsofBeige]

The Kotaku YouTube channel has 350k subscribers yet their videos are barely scraping 1000 views. I'd wager the main Kotaku site doesn't get much traffic either.

Go click bait, go broke.

That’s nuts. That’s got to be among the worst conversion rates ever.

I just checked a few YT sites I like Action Lab and eater dude Zermott Neo. The avg views per video for recent videos is like 10% conversion for AL and like 30% for ZN. Of course that doesnt mean all views are by subbers. But at least there is some kind of ratio based off subbers or random people clicking. Kotaku at 1000 views (many less) is basically a zero given they are a gaming site. It’s be like a random YouTuber uploading a video of him mowing the lawn and it gets 50 views.

Kotakus rate…. I had to check it myself as it seemed so low and you’re right! It’s like 0.3% based off 1000 views per video! Lol.

When my buddies did a YT gaming site way back… I don’t think they’ve done anything in years even they get high view rates than that. Sometimes they’d do pretty good getting 2000 views from 2000 subs if they did a catchy call of duty vid.

It goes to show how shit the videos are. No subbers are watching it, and no random people looking for gaming info are finding it either. And nobody in gaming social media are telling people to check out their video with a link or embed because it’s worth watching. Worthless content.

 

[Saber]

NeoGaf: I hate partisan politics in gaming
NeoGaf: Let’s mock people for losing their jobs because I don’t like their politics

Kotaku sucks and I don’t read that site but it’s ghoulish and bad karma to be giddily mocking job losses IMO.

I would respect them if they did not write social polution garbage and putrit gaming journalism.
Since thats not the case, no amount of "poor them job sob" posts will make me feel sad for them. People lost job everyday and I will feel pity for the ones who work decently, not everyone.

 

[Alphagear]

 

[Xtib81]

Who the fuck still reads this trash website?

 

[Kenneth Haight]

NeoGaf: I hate partisan politics in gaming
NeoGaf: Let’s mock people for losing their jobs because I don’t like their politics

Kotaku sucks and I don’t read that site but it’s ghoulish and bad karma to be giddily mocking job losses IMO.

Hogwarts Legacy 6 Months Later: Is Anyone Still Playing?

Seems like interest in the controversial, J.K. Rowling-adjacent Harry Potter wizarding world RPG has Disapparated

kotaku.com

Hogwarts Legacy wins | UK Boxed Charts

EA's football game is not No.1 in the UK boxed charts for the first time in a decade

www.gamesindustry.biz

jOuRnALiSm

 

[MALpractice311]

Kotaku still exist? Thought they closed months ago

A whole bunch of Gawker employees and divisions got shit down like two months ago. Jezebel was totally shut down for like two weeks and then reopened.

 

[winjer]

O

 

[recursive]

Good writing? Lmao.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Being supremely skilled is exactly the reason why a place like Kotaku would lay you off.

 

[Mister Wolf]

 

[nush]

 

[AmuroChan]

That’s nuts. That’s got to be among the worst conversion rates ever.

I just checked a few YT sites I like Action Lab and eater dude Zermott Neo. The avg views per video for recent videos is like 10% conversion for AL and like 30% for ZN. Of course that doesnt mean all views are by subbers. But at least there is some kind of ratio based off subbers or random people clicking. Kotaku at 1000 views (many less) is basically a zero given they are a gaming site. It’s be like a random YouTuber uploading a video of him mowing the lawn and it gets 50 views.

Kotakus rate…. I had to check it myself as it seemed so low and you’re right! It’s like 0.3% based off 1000 views per video! Lol.

When my buddies did a YT gaming site way back… I don’t think they’ve done anything in years even they get high view rates than that. Sometimes they’d do pretty good getting 2000 views from 2000 subs if they did a catchy call of duty vid.

It goes to show how shit the videos are. No subbers are watching it, and no random people looking for gaming info are finding it either. And nobody in gaming social media are telling people to check out their video with a link or embed because it’s worth watching. Worthless content.

It's obvious that most of their subs are fake and bought.

 

[Salz01]

I guess jokes on me. I sincerely thought Shitaku actually shut down years ago.

 

[nush]

It's obvious that most of their subs are fake and bought.

Or zombie subs.

 

[dave_d]

That’s nuts. That’s got to be among the worst conversion rates ever.

I just checked a few YT sites I like Action Lab and eater dude Zermott Neo. The avg views per video for recent videos is like 10% conversion for AL and like 30% for ZN. Of course that doesnt mean all views are by subbers. But at least there is some kind of ratio based off subbers or random people clicking. Kotaku at 1000 views (many less) is basically a zero given they are a gaming site. It’s be like a random YouTuber uploading a video of him mowing the lawn and it gets 50 views.

Kotakus rate…. I had to check it myself as it seemed so low and you’re right! It’s like 0.3% based off 1000 views per video! Lol.

When my buddies did a YT gaming site way back… I don’t think they’ve done anything in years even they get high view rates than that. Sometimes they’d do pretty good getting 2000 views from 2000 subs if they did a catchy call of duty vid.

It goes to show how shit the videos are. No subbers are watching it, and no random people looking for gaming info are finding it either. And nobody in gaming social media are telling people to check out their video with a link or embed because it’s worth watching. Worthless content.

That's so bad I honestly think if I did a video on the purpose of floating point numbers it'd get more views than that. (Seriously I've thought of doing a video like that since so many fellow software developers don't seem to understand the purpose of them.)

 

[bender]

It's obvious that most of their subs are fake and bought.

Probably just dead accounts. Their channel is almost 12 years old.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Excellent news. We love to see it.

 

[AmuroChan]

Probably just dead accounts. Their channel is almost 12 years old.

That many though? You don't see this kind of conversion rates with most other channels. It's an open secret that a lot of traditional media will buy subs and views in order to prop up their numbers so that advertisers don't abandon them.

 

[SlicedBread3]

(Seriously I've thought of doing a video like that since so many fellow software developers don't seem to understand the purpose of them.)

How is that even possible?

 

[bender]

That many though? You don't see this kind of conversion rates with most other channels. It's an open secret that a lot of traditional media will buy subs and views in order to prop up their numbers so that advertisers don't abandon them.

Yes. Go look at DarkSydePhil's or Boogie2998's channels.

 

[lifa-cobex]

learn to code

 

[TGO]

Yesterday, G/O Media laid off a supremely skilled editor at Kotaku

But still, sad to hear someone lost their job

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

2024 off to a good start.

 

[cash_longfellow]

She said great editing and great writing…..

 

[cash_longfellow]

Not trying to pile on here but why do two of those faces of the 3 tweets look like pronoun warriors?

Kotaku

 

[dave_d]

How is that even possible?

Well admittedly most documentation doesn't even go into it. I've literally never seen any floating point documentation mention sigfigs or scientific notation. Long story short floats are basically the computer equivalent of doing a calculation on a slide rule, IE scientific notation and sigfigs. (I'd hope back in the day if people saw their accountant pulling out a slide rule they'd have sense enough to fire the bastard, they're an idiot. These days so many software developers would do just that.)

 

[AmuroChan]

Yes. Go look at DarkSydePhil's or Boogie2998's channels.

It's not mutually exclusive. They can both have dead subs AND bought fake subs.

 

[Neon Xenon]

Layoffs are shitty, but I'm finding it difficult to gather sympathy for any mishaps occurring to Kotaku as an entity, given that they've spent years earning the ire that they continue to get now.

 

[zenspider]

NeoGaf: I hate partisan politics in gaming
NeoGaf: Let’s mock people for losing their jobs because I don’t like their politics

Kotaku sucks and I don’t read that site but it’s ghoulish and bad karma to be giddily mocking job losses IMO.

Karma is the consequences of your actions. Maybe it's bad taste, but they were early architects of this game, I think it's good that they're finally starting to lose after a decade of poison.

 

[SpiceRacz]

This and the closing of Waypoint goes to show that people really don't give a shit about "the politics of video games."

 

[deriks]

AI gonna replace ya

So you're saying that Skynet will be woke and not a bunch of death machines?

 

[NanaMiku]

The Kotaku YouTube channel has 350k subscribers yet their videos are barely scraping 1000 views. I'd wager the main Kotaku site doesn't get much traffic either.

Go click bait, go broke.

Not only that, even the website has low number of comments.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

It's obvious that most of their subs are fake and bought.

Got to be.

I checked out a few boardgame websites (they tell you how to play the game or review them), both sites have around the same number of subs as Kotaku in the 330-340k range each (just by luck), and their recent videos get about 5,000 views each. For Kotaku at 350k subs and 1000 views definitely seems odd and fishy. Even GameIndustryBiz's YT channel with only 3000 sub gets way more views as a conversion rate. Some of their vids get more views despite 1% of Kotaku's sub count.

But I didn't think of paid subs (my ignorance when it comes to social media and tech). Makes sense.

 

[SJRB]

SUPREMELY SKILLED

ALSO: FIRED

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Good let it burn

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

No reason to traffic there at all since all the good talent left when Totilo, Hamilton & Schreier all left.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

NeoGaf: I hate partisan politics in gaming
NeoGaf: Let’s mock people for losing their jobs because I don’t like their politics

Kotaku sucks and I don’t read that site but it’s ghoulish and bad karma to be giddily mocking job losses IMO.

This is a false equivalence fallacy.

Posters from NeoGaf have literally zero impact on the industry, other than pay for games.

People from Kotaku and other outlets have the power to impact companies with bad reviews and ill-fated articles. The Insomniac leak being the most recent case. They jumped to the jugular with zero ethics and zero regard for THE JOBS of the people impacted by the leak.

So, no, it's not the fucking same. All this without taking into account their insidious politics, boycott campaigns, and the likes.

People who love this hobby can only rejoice at the dismissal of these cunts.

 

[-Zelda-]

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Why do they need editors for articles written by AI anyways?

 

[EviLore]

That’s too bad.

Anyway, here’s Ricky Gervais when he was in an ‘80s New Wave duo.

 

[Platinumstorm]

I really enjoyed kotaku in the 200s and early 2010s. It's not even a site I think about anymore until it shows up here.

 

[sigrad]

Not sad. Kotaku has been garbage for a while now.