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Kenshi

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http://www.gamebizblog.com/gamebizblog/200...-team-quit.html

Back in December, I received a blunt email from a publisher at Future UK, baldly stating that control of Edge-Online had been transferred from our happy home in the San Francisco office, to an office based in the West of England, where Edge Magazine is produced.

This middle manager outlined some changes he wanted to make; in my view, a gumbo of old media thinking, rampant cost-cutting and ego-driven control mechanisms.

And so on and so forth...

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Edge-Online was Next-gen which was an American version of Edge, I think? So probably started there.

Edge-Online's new bosses claim they want to "integrate" the online and print facets of the magazine. I believe this to be an error.

If you say so.

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Jesus, that's unprofessional. He's talking bollocks anyway - no motherfucker reads Edge-Online, and that's because it clearly has nothing to do with the far better known and respected magazine. Linking the website in better with the magazine is an obvious move.

What a bitter knob.

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It would be obvious for the website to match the magazine in tone and content, otherwise it wouldn't be Edge online. Journos need to realise the main difference between an online magaine and a print magazine is just that the Net is faster and read on a screen and allows the readers to post comments and discuss.

It's still writing on a "page" and quality should be the same. Don't know what he means by "old thinking".

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Kris Graft and Rob Crossley write the vast majority of Edge-Online and are two of the most hard-working and talented journalists covering the games industry right now.

Really? Because everything I read on there pre-changeover was a festering pile of NeoGAF baiting shite.

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meh no big loss, as long as the magazine isn't affected...

I'm sure this guy was interviewed on a US podcast a few months back, he discussed with the UK office about the name change of the site. They argued that EDGE should change its name to "next-gen" so that both would be associated by name, and the UK office counter argued that it would be cheaper for the US site to change its name to EDGE online than to rebrand the entire magazine. This guy was a knob

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Gah! I was hoping that all Edge's columnists would resign en-masse. I'm fed up with reading three portions of navel-gazing wank each month.

And I used to thoroughly enjoy the first incarnation of Trigger Happy back in the day. Although that may be when my navel-gazing wank threshold was a lot higher. I can't really remember.

:lol:

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Considering that Edge-Online previously was pretty much 100% Edge reprints and some poorly updated news blog I'm not sure they're going to get much sympathy here.

Which one are you talking about? Old edge-online or next-gen. I believe this guy was from next-gen.

I also believe that the old edge-online is long gone and next-gen was re-branded edge-online but carried on just as it was before the merger. Now someone is doing something to get a bit more consistency across the media which is exactely what should be happening. There's absolutely no reason why a an edge internet site shouldn't be one of the premier gaming sites and why it shouldn't be closely aligned to the print mag.

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Would Edge closing down be easier than you just not reading the damned thing?

Whoa! Hold on there Pierrepoint; no need for a magazine-wide cull. Just replacements for the three masters of stretching a single - occasionally tenuous - idea into a full page of drivel would be nice.

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You do have a valid point, I haven't read the columns in ages, can't they get some different people in. If they could find some people interested in doing it, they could have a public vote on the website to decide so at least then you could blame public opinion for whoever got the job :lol:

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I guess he's gambling that people will assume Future are up to their mean old corporate tricks again, and overlook the fact that the Edge website was a fucking embarrassment. I can think of at least one instance where they reported a story from an AP story and managed to completely reverse the facts.

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Good. The quality of most of the stuff on Edge Online is way below the magazine anyway.

Take that back, you crazy, crazy man.

The only stuff of any vague quality I found was on Edge Online, like this absolute gem of a feature:

http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/state-...-%E2%80%98em-up

Unless that was printed in the actual magazine? Because JESUS. Why the fuck is it, whenever I pick up the actual magazine itself, it doesn't have anything even remotely of the quality of the above online article?

Because absolutely every drop of content I've seen in the magazine itself has been absolutely horrendous, fucking SHITE!

If the above online article was actually printed in Edge at some point, then I slightly retract my statement. But whenever I read it in a store it lacks any semblance of intelligence.

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