- cross-posted to:
- games@lemmy.world
- gaming@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- games@lemmy.world
- gaming@lemmy.world
Welcome one and all to BigFriendly.Guide (or BigFriendlyGuide.c om, if you’re nasty). This is the new home for Jeffrey Parkin and myself, Ryan Gilliam. For the last 10 years or so, you’ve been able to find Jeff and my bylines all over a website called Polygon. We don’t work at that website anymore, due to circumstances beyond our control — namely Vox Media selling it and laying almost all of us off in the process. While we worked for Vox, Jeff and I worked on a lot of guide projects together and discovered we had a mutual love in the world of games: helping others enjoy them. So when we found ourselves unemployed, it didn’t take us long to come together and decide it was time for us to make something of our own. And thus, BigFriendly.Guide was born.
The thesis: We’re a completely employee-owned website — me and Jeff, we’re the employees and we own the joint — dedicated not to serving Google the kinds of guides it’s looking for, but serving you, our readers, community members, and, hopefully, subscribers.
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From what I hear in gaming podcasts guides are still a big traffic driver for websites. Also that there are literally no more jobs. Love to see employee owned businesses, I hope it works out for these guys.
Honestly the silver lining about the M&As going on right now is going to be all of the new tiny startups. We’re already seeing it with gaming, indie studios take risks and are willing to make the huge gambles, and it’s why they’re winning. Same will happen here
It’s already filled with walkthrough/guide spam with no journalism to be found. Pass.
I don’t care that it’s so that you get traffic from Google - why should anyone care if those guys created an entirely clickfarm focused website?
