I know we had one or two posters here who worked for them, so this is a little interesting/sad to see. They’re kinda GameFan-lite and follow in the footsteps of Dave Halverson but still, another magazine belly-up sucks:
Bzzt, thread foul. Link requires login!
wasn’t this the mag that was up for sale on Ebay a few weeks ago?..Yes it was:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300285337821
Fuck. The. New. York. Fucking. Times.
It’s the year of our lord 2009, and you don’t have a NYTimes.com login? You don’t like reading news, then.
Maybe if you read it more often you’d stop using subjectless. verbless. sentences.
Talk about misleading thread titles…
Until an hour before the listing was scheduled to expire on Jan. 13, it seemed that Hardcore Gamer was going to join the January vanquished. Mr. Lindquist had about 15 serious inquiries, but no one had bid on it.
Then a last-minute savior swooped in, an entrepreneur who had recently sold his video game business. He asked Mr. Lindquist to stop the auction, and offered a little bit more than the eBay price.
Mr. Lindquist did not want to name the buyer, as he is still negotiating the deal, but expects to complete the sale this week. He said he expects the new owner will keep him on.
“It’s not exactly a gold mine,” he said. “But I really love publishing it.”
rei was just testing to see if people would actually follow the link and read it, or get hung up by the required log-in.
From the article:
Until an hour before the listing was scheduled to expire on Jan. 13, it seemed that Hardcore Gamer was going to join the January vanquished. Mr. Lindquist had about 15 serious inquiries, but no one had bid on it.
Then a last-minute savior swooped in, an entrepreneur who had recently sold his video game business. He asked Mr. Lindquist to stop the auction, and offered a little bit more than the eBay price.
Mr. Lindquist did not want to name the buyer, as he is still negotiating the deal, but expects to complete the sale this week. He said he expects the new owner will keep him on.
“It’s not exactly a gold mine,” he said. “But I really love publishing it.”
hmm, it never required a login for me.
The NY Times doesn’t require login for some lead stories. The decision what to gate is not very obvious in some cases, though, so you can never tell if some random Google news link will require it or not.
Dammit, I forget the useful details, but someone made an effort to register some more or less universal login and password combination for most major online publishers that require such things. I tend not to bother with such sites, since I usually have cookies turned off anyway except for selected sites, but maybe someone else remembers the login/password combo?
As always, gamers/gamers works as login.
I can’t believe that actually works. Thanks!
What’s the point of the login then?
Most of those are fine news sources for adults (not CNN, clearly), but if you’re an Anglophone and you’re not reading the New York Times somewhat regularly, I can’t take you seriously as a well-informed person.
The Boston Globe eventually starts demanding registration - they just back end it a little bit.
That’s fine, I don’t even play an instrument.
Their site is also clunky as hell. I just had one word more than I had examples. Insert Lincoln’s emoticon here.
(The Boston Globe is also owned by the New York Times. I owned myself. :( )
If only I had a login!
Do you mean this ?
The NY Times is the nation’s best conventional newspaper. It’s not very good.
The Times used to be valuable 20 years ago, but even then it was declining. It has deteriorated significantly since then. The paper edition is especially dismaying due to the increasing ratio of fluff to news, and to the massive advertising presence. Of course the Times always used to have plenty of ads, but these days it’s just ridiculous. The Sunday paper is especially silly, having something like 1 pound of ads mixed with a quarter pound of fluff and an ounce of news. But more importantly, the quality of the writing and of the investigative journalism has gone down a lot in their conventional news articles.
So I much prefer to use an array of news sources from various aggregator sites including Google News, along with an occasional foray to random international sites like BBC, than to subscribe to the NY Times or even to bother with their login.
Due to their current financial difficulties, I expect the Times either to sell out soon and be transformed into something even worse by new ownership, or to continue stubbornly deteriorating for a few years and then to fold, selling its name as an asset to some media firm that will just stamp AP crap with the imprint.