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Current Events » Yahtzee Croshaw resigns from The Escapist
UnholyMudcrab
11/06/2023
08:23 PM
#1
https://twitter.com/YahtzeeCroshaw/status/1721687212541280425

From the sound of things, The Escapist was conducting a mass firing of a bunch of people including the editor-in-chief, and the entire video team resigned in protest. So Zero Punctuation is dead now, and I can't imagine The Escapist itself has much longer left.
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Hayame_Zero
11/06/2023
08:25 PM
#2
Holy shit.
...I think I'm done here...
invertedlegdrop
11/06/2023
08:26 PM
#3
Damn...he was really all they had left as a draw...Escapist is toast...
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Umbreon
11/06/2023
08:27 PM
#4
Damn.

And yeah, wasn't Yahtzee their biggest draw?
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Mechu
11/06/2023
08:27 PM
#5
Huh. Haven't watched this guy's videos for years tbh. Didn't realise he was still active.
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ForsakenHermit
11/06/2023
08:27 PM
#6
Now how will I know 95% of video games suck without a motor mouthed British hipster telling me?
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Jagr_68
11/06/2023
08:29 PM
#7
Why fucking fire the main draw of the goddamn magazine?
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Dark_Moon
11/06/2023
08:30 PM
#8
That sucks, even when i liked a game he ragged on I still found the video funny.
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lilORANG
11/06/2023
08:30 PM
#9
I haven't heard from this dude since he did segments on X-Play
Let's all please just get along.
Dark_Moon
11/06/2023
08:31 PM
#10
Jagr_68 posted...
Why fucking fire the main draw of the goddamn magazine?
Doesn't sound like he was fired, but left in protest of the firings.
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Kitt
11/06/2023
08:31 PM
#11
Damn. That's crazy. He pretty much is the Escapist Channel at this point.
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Umbreon
11/06/2023
08:35 PM
#12
lilORANG posted...
I haven't heard from this dude since he did segments on X-Play

He was on X-Play?!
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Hayame_Zero
11/06/2023
08:35 PM
#13
> company fires everyone, but keeps their biggest draw

> Their biggest draw gets pissed about the firings and quits

Escapist:

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...I think I'm done here...
s0nicfan
11/06/2023
08:36 PM
#14
Maybe he and Jack Packard can start a new web series.
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ablegator
11/06/2023
08:38 PM
#15
s0nicfan posted...
Maybe he and Jack Packard can start a new web series.
They could call it Previously Recorded.
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Dabrikishaw15
11/06/2023
08:45 PM
#16
I stopped being a fan years ago when I outgrew his style of humor, but holy shit. Even I knew The Escapist was nothing without him.
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Irony
11/06/2023
08:46 PM
#17
Man I watch this stuff every week I hope reboots his old channel and starts doing this again
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GameGodOfAll
11/06/2023
08:47 PM
#18
Damnnnnnnn.

So weird. Watched Zero Punctuation for the first time in like 2 years last night.
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s0nicfan
11/06/2023
08:48 PM
#19
ablegator posted...
They could call it Previously Recorded.

I do wonder if RLM would be willing to do a bit of cross promotion to help him out given his connection to Jack and, as you've pointed out their previous attempt at a gaming show.
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Ivynn
11/06/2023
08:48 PM
#20
Damn wow
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Jagr_68
11/06/2023
08:48 PM
#21
ablegator posted...
They could call it Previously Recorded.

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Guide
11/06/2023
08:50 PM
#22
Moviebob was one of their big draws back in the day. He left the company, but kept doing the same thing with different assets. Then they rehired him, and he kept doing the same thing. It wasn't too bad of a transition.

So here's hoping Yahtzee keeps doing the same thing in a different skin. Possibly the only reviewer whose reviewing still matters to me.
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K181
11/06/2023
08:53 PM
#23
Well, the Escapist killed itself.
Irregardless, for all intensive purposes, I could care less.
Kircheis
11/06/2023
08:56 PM
#24
Still got a few Cold Takes and a Design Delve or two I need to watch, guess those will be the last Escapist videos I ever watch then.
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Sexypwnstar
11/06/2023
08:57 PM
#25
Who?
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CyricZ
11/06/2023
09:11 PM
#26
Now that's a MASS exodus.

It honestly looks like everyone is going to be more-or-less staying together.
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C_Pain
11/06/2023
09:12 PM
#27
I haven't really watched his content in a few years. What's he been up to?
How quaint.
mybbqrules
11/06/2023
09:18 PM
#28
Umbreon posted...
Damn.

And yeah, wasn't Yahtzee their biggest draw?
Their only draw.
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Tyranthraxus
11/06/2023
09:18 PM
#29
Gamefaqs outlives another message board
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Smashingpmkns
11/06/2023
09:34 PM
#30
Pretty cool how the entire team left in protest after the editor in chief was fired. That's some solidarity.

Escapist told the editor he couldn't get his severance unless he signed an NDA which is illegal now iirc. So he could possibly sue if he chooses to.
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Hayame_Zero
11/06/2023
09:47 PM
#31
mybbqrules posted...
Their only draw.
I literally don't know of any other
...I think I'm done here...
hereforemnant
11/06/2023
09:53 PM
#32
Yeah if Yahtzee is leaving they're toast, they were doing a lot to acquiesce to how things would be run since they were realigning entire channel schedules based on what he wanted.

Cold Takes is good too, but ZP was the XIV to square enix, it's probably all that was keeping the company alive, they're fucked now
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NeonTentacles
11/06/2023
09:54 PM
#33
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11/06/2023
08:01 PM
#34
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Jagr_68
11/06/2023
09:58 PM
#35
Practically 97% of his reviews have aged like fine wine given his commentary on the increasingly rotting state that the industry would end up being to this day.

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https://youtu.be/I7X9S8q1FXQ?si=-bXwDBy4wrZXLkoU

...except Dark Souls 2. That was still way too forgiving.
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Kitt
11/06/2023
10:01 PM
#36
It's funny how the entire channel outside ended up being morphing into his ZP aesthetics. Talking about having crazy pull.
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Tyranthraxus
11/06/2023
10:02 PM
#37
Yahtzee was like "I don't need you. You need me."
It says right here in Matthew 16:4 "Jesus doth not need a giant Mecha."
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Jeff_AKA_Snoopy
11/06/2023
10:02 PM
#38
Anyone get the feeling they are all just gonna start up their own little company with Patreon or something ala Easy Allies?
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Master_Kazuya
11/06/2023
10:05 PM
#39
GameGodOfAll posted...
Damnnnnnnn.

So weird. Watched Zero Punctuation for the first time in like 2 years last night.

Yeah me too, I wanted to see if he reviewed SMBW
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BurmesePenguin
11/06/2023
10:06 PM
#40
ablegator posted...
They could call it Previously Recorded.
Can I just say that Previously Recorded was really bad? Their reviews anyway. For games they talked about I actually played their reviews were full of misinformation. In particular their Nioh review. And I don't mean in the sense that they disliked something that I liked, but they straight up misunderstood aspects of the games that they then proceeded to complain about. I really got the impression that they had no idea what they were doing outside of games they had life long experiences with.

I also tried to watch their bloodborne playthrough(s?) but there was no proper playlisting and labeling so it was impossible to find out where to start and how to progress since youtube doesn't put videos in some sort of order when you search a channel.
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Jagr_68
11/06/2023
10:08 PM
#41
BurmesePenguin posted...
Can I just say that Previously Recorded was really bad? Their reviews anyway. For games they talked about I actually played their reviews were full of misinformation. In particular their Nioh review. And I don't mean in the sense that they disliked something that I liked, but they straight up misunderstood aspects of the games that they then proceeded to complain about. I really got the impression that they had no idea what they were doing outside of games they had life long experiences with.

I also tried to watch their bloodborne playthrough(s?) but there was no proper playlisting and labeling so it was impossible to find out where to start and how to progress since youtube doesn't put videos in some sort of order when you search a channel.

How dare you highlight flaws from a channel founded by hack frauds
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mercurydude
11/06/2023
10:12 PM
#42
NeonTentacles posted...
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So once again corpos turn out to be idiots with unrealistic expectations that are also only capable of thinking in the short term.
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Irony
11/06/2023
10:13 PM
#43
Starting to sound like more Rooster Teeth bullshit
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dancing_cactuar
11/06/2023
10:17 PM
#44
BurmesePenguin posted...
Can I just say that Previously Recorded was really bad? Their reviews anyway. For games they talked about I actually played their reviews were full of misinformation. In particular their Nioh review. And I don't mean in the sense that they disliked something that I liked, but they straight up misunderstood aspects of the games that they then proceeded to complain about. I really got the impression that they had no idea what they were doing outside of games they had life long experiences with.

I also tried to watch their bloodborne playthrough(s?) but there was no proper playlisting and labeling so it was impossible to find out where to start and how to progress since youtube doesn't put videos in some sort of order when you search a channel.
Their video on The Order 1886 was a classic though.
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Too_Many_Limes
11/06/2023
10:58 PM
#45
The real benefit of Previously Recorded was getting the occasional behind-the-scenes glimpse at RLM, plus an opportunity to converse with Rich, Jay, and Jack in a more casual setting.
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streamofthesky
11/06/2023
11:13 PM
#46
Wow.... he's been like literally their only draw for many years now.
It's bull shit that he doesn't own the rights to "Zero Punctuation", but he could just title his videos something else and do the same thing. "Sarcastic overly critical stick figure graphic'd reviews of video games" isn't going to be something that can be claimed as intellectual property.

And when Escapist dies a fiery death a few months from now, he can probably buy the name back for cheap.
mybbqrules
11/06/2023
11:33 PM
#47
streamofthesky posted...
Wow.... he's been like literally their only draw for many years now.
It's bull shit that he doesn't own the rights to "Zero Punctuation", but he could just title his videos something else and do the same thing. "Sarcastic overly critical stick figure graphic'd reviews of video games" isn't going to be something that can be claimed as intellectual property.

And when Escapist dies a fiery death a few months from now, he can probably buy the name back for cheap.
I seem to recall Yahtzee had a channel called "Fully Ramblomatic" or something like that right before he was picked up by the escapist.
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s0nicfan
11/07/2023
12:16 AM
#49
Too_Many_Limes posted...
The real benefit of Previously Recorded was getting the occasional behind-the-scenes glimpse at RLM, plus an opportunity to converse with Rich, Jay, and Jack in a more casual setting.

That was really my main draw. It was just kind of nice to listen to Rich and Jack talk games without being the butt of every joke in every scene (which I'm sure they don't mind as actors, but as viewers the change is pace is nice sometimes).
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teep_
11/07/2023
12:25 AM
#50
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