By removing the advertising model altogether?
So in other words, access to content would be through subscriptions, like an old school magazine or a modern service like Netflix?
Because I've been considering the idea for my own upcoming general games site, and I'm thinking it could fix quite a few issues that modern gaming journalism tends to have.
For example, we could tell the PR people to sod off, since we wouldn't need any review copies or free games or event tickets to get access to the titles. We'd avoid clickbait and other crap, since we wouldn't need to try and appeal to the BuzzFeed style 'moron' crowd for easy views and ad revenue. And I'd be able to avoid controveries like GamerGate, since neither baiting the audience nor getting involved with developers would be reasonable (and if the audience got annoyed, they'd just stop paying and let me go broke).
So yeah, could a truly great gaming site be made with a subscription model for much of the content? Would anyone actually ever pay for gaming related content on the internet?
So in other words, access to content would be through subscriptions, like an old school magazine or a modern service like Netflix?
Because I've been considering the idea for my own upcoming general games site, and I'm thinking it could fix quite a few issues that modern gaming journalism tends to have.
For example, we could tell the PR people to sod off, since we wouldn't need any review copies or free games or event tickets to get access to the titles. We'd avoid clickbait and other crap, since we wouldn't need to try and appeal to the BuzzFeed style 'moron' crowd for easy views and ad revenue. And I'd be able to avoid controveries like GamerGate, since neither baiting the audience nor getting involved with developers would be reasonable (and if the audience got annoyed, they'd just stop paying and let me go broke).
So yeah, could a truly great gaming site be made with a subscription model for much of the content? Would anyone actually ever pay for gaming related content on the internet?