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The Games Press #10: Hirun Cryer (Former Guides Editor at USGamer)
🕑 Added 2022-05-26 15:29:18 +0000 UTCHey patrons!
This month's episode should now be available in all of your various podcast listening places. It's well worth listening to if you care about how a lot of your favourite games sites really work and who might be getting screwed over in the process.
Hirun Cryer first got his break writing guides over at USGamer. And guides content, dear listeners, is perhaps one of the most overlooked part of this entire job. Frequently responsible for the lion's share of a publication's traffic, despite rarely appearing on the homepage itself, video game guides are hugely important to the overall success of loads of games media teams.
So why then are guides writers so often underpaid and overworked?
Here's Hirun to try and explain it:
"You know how people say there are no old games media workers? Because they all move out of the industry because of pay and all that? I don't think I really know any old guides writers, because they're all gone now, they've all moved on to other things. It's churned and burned them and the machine has dumped them and got in the latest worker, because there are always very young, keen, eager writers raring to go. That's not their fault. That's just how the world operates and how this machine treats people."
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