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It's so, so funny when execs whine about the media as if we have any power left and they hold all the power.

Andy Robinson@andyrobinson.bsky.social

Activision believes there’s a “Call of Duty tax” on the way the series is covered by games media these days, according to an executive. vgc.news/news/the-cal...

vgc.newsThe ‘Call of Duty tax’ means games media doesn’t cover COD the way it used to, Activision says | VGCIts large audience has “become status quo” and people forget the work that goes into each entry…

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

yeah the problem is definitely a devastated and badly automated media and most certainly not highly-consolidated corporations mass producing lowest-common-denominator derivative cack in the pursuit of bottomless quarterly growth

15/10/26, 4:33 pm2 reposts7 likes

Carli Boo-locci 👻

@carlivelocci.com

Considering the state of games media these days especially, it's so purposefully out of touch. They know they're appealing to a certain audience with messaging like this, and it's the one that hates games media.

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

very similar to the tech AI bros who get extremely mad when one small under-funded news outlet asks them a real question or doesn't produce industry-coddling crap