Major changes in the Escapist Magazine, and probably the end of Zero Punctuation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ

Sebastian Ruiz just got on full time with them and I was really starting to enjoy his content. Hes another good one to watch for. Shame that he is it kf work again

Good to see someone else made this thread, I saw the news last night but didn't want to start a thread myself because of how messy and weird the whole thing is.
I've been watching ZP for many years and to see it end so suddenly is really shocking. The new owners at The Escapist were clearly only after the money with how hard they were pushing for ads recently, taking completely tone deaf sponsorships for the videos, but I never expected them to be so dumb as to fire Nick after the guy basically rebuilt the magazine after it collapsed some years ago.
It's also quite sad to see Frost out of a job mere weeks after he got hired full time, that dude is quite good at the whole opinion piece thing. Or how 3MR had just been spun into its own channel at the start of the month.
I wonder if the videos lined up for this week were already uploaded and programmed to come out automatically or if they'll end up as lost media, since I imagine The Escapist is functionally over now and when the team relaunches under a new name they'll no longer have the IPs to the old content.

To quote one of my friends, "I didn't know it was still a thing" :x

and probably the end of Zero Punctuation

I'm not afraid of this personally, Yahtzee carried the whole Escapist on his shoulders for years, and nowadays I only found the Cold Take(?) as a new and worthwhile content there. Yahtzee IS Zero Punctuation, and they can absolutely form a new site/magazine with the already existing youtube and patreon support. I wish the best for all of them

It'll be the end of the title "Zero Punctuation" since they don't have the rights to that, but Nick, Yahtzee & co. are all moving to their own little corner where they can continue doing what they did without their idiot overlords. The rest of whoever is left at the Escapist will almost certainly follow, or go back to their own channels if they came from elsewhere.

Note that I know nothing about the people who fired Nick or why, but I tentatively conclude they're idiots based on not being able to gauge the impact of their actions.

as a person whos played video games my entire life
never heard of it

A lot of people don't seem to know that The Escapist now has very little to do with the Escapist that had the controversy, or that Nick has basically resurrected that site and YT channel and in more recent years ZP was no longer the one and only reason to go there.
And now they lost it all. The entire video team left and is joining Nick on Second Wind

I had no idea it was still around.

...It's Wednesday and, as expected, no ZP episode (not even the one which was already prepared for today in advance)...
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...I feel empty.

Well, let's see what series Yahtzee makes to replace it. (I'm not gonna hold my breath on the retards that had the bright idea of firing the guy whom everyone likes giving up the IP.)

sorry it must just be me but i have never heard of these either the magazine or the company - should i have everyone else seems like this is a well know thing

So I was just checking my subscriptions page on youtube and noticed that in the last couple of hours every single Escapist video that had been uploaded before the whole collapse but haven't gotten released is now released, so now the last two Zero Punctuation videos are live... but the comments are disabled. There's also another three videos one of which is a Cold Take.

If anything at least we're getting proper closure and a cleaner cut in the transition to Second Wind, BTW the new channel and rebranded/rebooted shows have been very strong so far,