drgrumbles

So I have just canceled my subscription, and alongside the comments that I put in the comment box, I wanted to post them here.

1) The idea of 'Unprofessional Friday" has taken over just about every piece of content on the site when it comes to the west coast content. For example, in a huge amount of videos & podcast, the content is regularly interrupted by cast deciding that they couldn't figure out that they needed to go to the toilet before they started, or they want a drink or any other excuse that they can think of. Please have some respect for the audience and try to get yourself ready before recording, you know when it is going to happen, and so far I have not heard any good excuse why you are unable to appropriately prepare yourself.

2) The total lack of preparation on behalf of the "talent". This ranges from nearly every quicklook where the cast can't be bothered to do the appropriate research to find out what the platforms, features and price of a product are, to live shows where cast's segments are entirely them trying to get some piece of software working, which they should have prepared to at least make sure it runs.

3) A vast amount of the content has become simply 30+ men talking about how great games were before, and we should all go back and play retro games. If the desired goal for giant bomb is to be a retro video game website, I wish them well but I am not interested in this content, and it is not what I was sold when I purchased my subscription. For a little while, the same problem existed where Dan was attempting to force every single piece of content that he was involved in to involve wrestling. I commend the management for identifying this as a problem and addressing it.

4) The volume of content is simply no where near enough, especially when it is combined with the fact that a huge amount of it seams under prepared (See point 1). This is subjective, so I can understand that many people may believe it is enough, but I don't believe it is.

Now I should say that in terms of the quality of content, I have no real complaints with the quality of the stuff coming out of the east coast content. I feel they are generating work at a level of quality that is more than appropriate for a 3 man studio. However, the amount of content being produced is quite low, and the west coast content is often not worth consuming, even though I have already paid for it. This means that I can't justify spending money on a subscription.

I also wanted to quickly say that I have no complaints against the technical quality of the production (the production crew), most of my complaints are against cast (not putting in the necessary preparation before doing anything) and management (either to much overheads in terms of time or poor task allotment resulting in low amounts of production).

I wish the site the best of luck into the future.