4 Prominent Figures of IGN are Jumping Ship to Patreon

What do you make up of that? Now all of a sudden many are realizing that there is more money to be made by going solo thanks to Jim Sterling. Do you see this as good or bad thing?

I think they failed to realize that Jim Sterling is a personality, while they are, at best, average reviewers.

People like Jim's work because it's Jim. Can we really say the same for these folks?

Would any of us put up for a Tom McShea patreon for example?

Is Colin and Greg Live a show about how much they can jerk off over Playstation?

Fine by me. Audrey Drake left IGN and her shitty reviews went with her. The Nintendo team has improved significantly since.

If IGN plays their cards right, same thing could happen for the PlayStation squad

This is going to go over as well as cake and clowns at a funeral.

Lol colin and greg.They are gonna crawl back to IGN pretty soon cause sucking sony's d*ck isn't enough to survive in the youtube space.

@Blabadon:

I'm in 100% agreement.

@Xaero_Gravity: the only loss I see here is the coverage of some games only Colin seemed to care about. Unfortunately it seems like he went full finalstar with those previews. If someone with slightly more objective, yet personal, measures could help, that'd be awesome (cough Nick Robinson cough)

And really colin hypocrite much? You were dissing the idea of kickstarter and now you go to patreon to beg for money?

@Blabadon:

If it's one thing I've learned in life, it's that you never, ever, go full finalstar.

Too bad no one likes Miller or Moriarty enough to care, I think.

Wish them the best though

Don't care. They all fucking suck anyways.

What's Patreon exactly? Like a crowdfund thing?

are you stating that as fact or opinion?

i personally enjoy their podcast and i find them very entertaining. NVM their reviews , but as personalities, they are much better

Yea but like a subscription based style of crowd funding. You pay whatever you want a month to get extra stuff.

that sucks.. hope they continue with Podcast Beyond in some form.. that was one of the best things i kept up with on IGN

Interesting. Thanks.

Gonna miss podcast beyond too although they stated they may continue it indefinitely at their new digs. Currently going through the backlog of all the previous 'casts as 'something to listen to' in the background. On episode 207.

This Patreon bubble is going to crash hard, and soon.

To me, that's just a career move, maybe they can possibly make more this way. If you play the crowd sourcing angle just right, or YouTube or any service that gets you money through ads and you get enough of a audience then it can be very lucrative.

I'm still waiting for adam sessler to reemerge and set up his own channel.

Bold move.. i wish them luck.

haha, yeap

wow 13k per month for one show, 6k per month for another.

Holy shit, time to actually pay attention to IGN now

https://twitter.com/agentbizzle/status/552181448409485312

Max Scoville is now on board, aka one of the most funny and informed personalities out there.

Positive:

+ Patreon is funded by players and not gaming corporations. It's the gaming corporations that pay for ads on big sites and that's the reason these sites would never flop a completely broken game like say Unity. It just fucks up any kind of integrity a review could have (gerstmann)

Negative:

- I never really cared for these guys.

I highly doubt that patreon alone will be able to provide enough (sustained) monthly income for 4 people to live off comfortably. So they will probably have to run ads/sponsored broadcasts

In which case they shouldn't use patreon :P

It's what I like about Jim Sterling anyway, he got into shit sometimes with his uncensored opinions about big companies like Ubisoft, some companies refused to send him review copies lol. It's a very noble cause and it shows so well what exactly is wrong with gaming 'journalism'

But yeah, they are asking for quite a hefty sum if they need to pay 4 wages and for all their equipment...

@lostrib:

in only a few hours the patreon is already at $7,000 a month and it's only gonna grow even more with time. They have a partnership with Twitch and Youtube too, so they get money from subscriptions, advertisements and donations. These 4 guys are gonna be swimming in money very soon.

Oh, and not not mention that they will continue their Beyond podcast with IGN.

wait, they're quitting IGN but continuing to produce content for them?

And i specifically meant from patreon alone

@Gue1: came out of nowhere, but tbh, i am glad they're gone from the site. I lost respect for them after the latest femfreq clip

Who?

I don't care for any so called gaming "journalists" after the events of the last few years. Just a bunch of hipster douches.

uh.....who and who?

IGN lowest commen demonsnananatar advertizement website.
Jim Sterling passionate fat man: these men hacks.

Prominent figures and IGN don't belong in the same sentence

So what you're saying is there's a job opening at IGN?

seems pretty dumb and narcissistic

Patreon benefits only if you have a large following.

Pretty sure. They keep yelling out "Beyond".

Whoa that's a pretty big deal. People might be hating in here, but you can't deny the facts. These guys have increased the view count for Podcast Beyond by a lot since they took over.

Not sure how this will go though. Seems risky.

They're getting almost as much as Jim and will probably get more seeing how this is still new. However they are 4 guys while Jim is just one man.

Edit: They also have another patreon where they're getting $13,726 a month. That means they're getting twice as much as Jim.

Never heard of them.

So they will produce even more click bait articles and videos and be all around horrible people?

Very, very hard. I hope all of the "social justice" fools go with it.

I actually like greg. I personally cant stand colin.

This shows that there always changes in game journalism. I wish the IGN editors good luck on their new work.

Yep, only instead of focusing on a sole project as the goal like Kickstarter, this is a monthly donation made to people like Jim Sterling to fund their work.

The people who have cultivated a big enough fanbase will survive. But yeah, all the "Late to the bandwagon" users won't.

i like greg and colin just not their reviews. I love beyond. hope they do well. most people are too scared to do something like this.