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Adeptus Mechanicus

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So what happened here?

They seemed to be on a downward slope since just before their rebranding from Lazygamer to Critical Hit. Now the site appears to have been sold off and is pretty much dead in the water.

Anyone got some inside info?
 
I wonder what happened to GavinMannion (his forum name here)...
 
If I remember correctly the site was sold and the new management didn't get along with the contributors to the site so they all left or were forced to leave.
 
Yeah it was sold and the new idiot either fired everyone or forced them to leave through his actions because he believed he could do better himself.

Then he took on any and every troll from the comments section and basically all contributions are now by people who have no history of writing and will happily tell you so as if it’s not obvious.

So quality is non-existent and it’s now a very dead horse trying to recoup its initial investment with minimal effort.
 
Crusader said:
If I remember correctly the site was sold and the new management didn't get along with the contributors to the site so they all left or were forced to leave.
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I suspect there's more to it than that.

I'd watched them very suddenly prior to their rebrand go a strange direction. This was around the time they posted a looong diatribe on why they were getting rid of the "hot girl headliners". Now that's all good and well (can't say it really mattered much to most), but it did precede a markedly "different" attitude on the site. Almost as if they'd, unfortunately, looked at international gaming journalism trends and thought that was the way forward.

Post rebrand, new hires and broadening the scope of what they were reporting to include movies, TV, tech and (cringe) WWE they never seem to have recovered. Almost as if they didn't have the focus or writing talent to actually produce decent content anymore. Articles took on a distinctly "woke" flavour at times and the moderation of the community posting became quite draconian, extending as far as to ban people for simple criticism or debate of the points made in the articles.

So to me it appears to have been a slow and steady decline. I just wonder what the straw that broke the camel's back was in terms of offloading the site to new ownership. Pretty sad because in the heydays of LG it was really good.
 
Haven't really read them since they switched from lazygamer.
 
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