The Escapist murica-fires Editor-in-Chief - loses Yahtzee Croshaw and entire video team in hours
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Fired or resigned, extremely incomplete list:
- Nick Calandra - Editor-in-Chief
- Yahtzee Croshaw - Zero Punctuation, Adventure is Nigh, Extra Punctuation
- Jack Packard - Adventure is Nigh
- Amy Campbell - Adventure is Nigh, 3 Minute Reviews
- KC Nwosu - Adventure is Nigh, 3 Minute Reviews
- Jesse Galena - Adventure is Nigh, 3 Minute Reviews
- Sebastian Ruiz - Cold Take, Stuff of Legend
- JM8 - Editor, Design Delve
- Darren Moody - Columnist
- Marty Sliva - 3 Minute Review
IP of Zero Punctuation belongs to Escapist, so that is dead as of now.
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With a loss of people like that, The Escapist is dead too.
The pro gamer move would be to pick up the Zero Punctuation rights at auction.
Yeah, Yahtzee and ZP was what kept The Escapist alive (Pretty sure there was a point where ZP was their only content). Cold Take was the other thing that was interesting and they lost that too. I don't think they have any other content without those guys.
They always had alternate content, it just generally sucked.
Seriously what were they thinking? I'm literally only subscribed to their YT channel for Yahtzee stuff. Everyone who bought a membership is gonna cancel now.
They probably had no idea Yahtzee and co were that loyal to Nick. That said, I'm shocked Yahtzee was never given an ownership stake, as an insurance against... Well, this exact scenario.
I kind of assumed he was like... mostly owner?
Like I sorted their YT videos by popular and after four pages I gave up looking for something that isn't zero punctuation.
It's the dairy farmer selling his only milk cow for all that sweet, sweet cow-selling cash, failing to see that this may potentially have an adverse effect on his milk-selling cash henceforth.
I mean, it should have died years ago the last time they unceremoniously dumped talent over apparently ideological reasons, but they survived.
Granted, this time is different because now they are losing their primary breadwinner. They plodded along before because ZP still brought in people. This wound may actually be fatal.