IGN Drama

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1. Work for IGN competitior
   so copy paste
   Print money hack

2. Between this and the fact that an unborn fetus can play games better than them, it's no wonder people hate gaming journalists.

3. IGN's "articles" and the content in them already gave off this vibe, you get what you pay for.

4. This is more than likey a publicly stunt to gain more writers

5. IGN stands for I Got Nothing

6. Ahhh yea what has ign done this week

7. remember when the internet was about cat pictures am the occasional adult content?

   now it's a hellhole with demons sucking at every opening they can

8. Bullsh-t "ghostwriters" can make a six figure income writing a consistent stream of nonsense without a background in anything they're writing about (seen so many NY Post articles on these women making hundreds of thousands and buying things outright in cash being "ghostwriters" with basic writing courses).

9. IGN wanting to pay people literally a quarter of how much a new video game costs these days.

10. The entire smt v review completely disintegrated any respect I may have had left for them, especially because they butchered one of the best rpg series ever, and this certainly doesn’t help lmao.

11. 1. Find random tweet about gaming
    2. Copy and paste information
    3. Slap it on IGN
    4. Collect $20
    5. Repeat this a dozen more times per day
    I don’t see the downside

12. now i know why IGN keeps recycling old articles

13. 20 dollars is fine for me

14. At least they are up front about it

15. I don’t know why but every time story my mind went to building story

16. Wright an article for IGN and have enough to purchase 1/3 of the next new game to report on

17. 5:13 🤣

18. $20 might not be much in the US but in some places, it is half of a day of work or even a little more than that.

19. Well, it's no wonder why people like Filip Miucin get to be on board in IGN. 🙄

20. $20 is just "exposure", I'm not American but even I know that's nothing, bloody hell.

21. Thats more then I make as a factory worker

22. Working for bigger companies doesn't mean bigger payouts. It just means they can get away with paying less.

23. 20 bucks for a couple paragraphs? I could bang out 30 stories a day

24. is ign profiting more than $20 per ad? like what are they gonna make off of this. I can’t imagine its as bad as it seems. Maybe im just ignorant to how much an article can profit.

25. I own a small hometown newspaper in a rural area in the United States, so I feel at least a little bit qualified to weigh in on this topic. Twenty dollars is abysmal for freelance work of any kind short of copy/paste, and I would never accept copy/paste "journalism" in my publication. If a story is not interesting enough for my reporters to do actual work to further investigate or explore the story and then make a demonstrable contribution to it's understanding, then the story is not worth taking up space either in print column inches or on the Web. Our time and space is valuable, and we can spend it doing more constructive things. You are absolutely correct in your assessment that this low rate makes sense in the context of IGN's typical story material and why it is the way it is. That said, I can't help but feel that this tweet from IGN was really kind of a fishing expedition more than anything else. I think they wanted to float these rates to see if they could get away with it. It's sad, really, and it's indicative of what's going on in the journalism world as a whole right now. Story quality and journalistic integrity is on the decline, and, as a result, people value the news less with each passing year. Prominent news outlets are not helping the situation, either. They publish increasingly partisan and ever more slanted stories that are either cherry-picked or spun to conform to the particular news outlet's political affiliation — and they are doing so with rapidly decreasing subtlety. Often times the reporters who wish to do better simply cannot do so because they are hamstrung by what outlets demand and what they offer to pay. We do our best to be the exception to this, but even we feel the pains of dwindling public interest here in small town USA, where the appetite for local news is now next to nonexistent.

26. Me who’s 15 and doesn’t have a job: I don’t know that sounds good to me

27. So this is why IGN writers generally never finish the game they write what are supposed to be definitive opinions on.

28. "wHy dOEz NO oNE wantZ to worK"

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