As someone who founded Eurogamer, and spearheaded the website into becoming one of the biggest (and many would argue - best) media portals in the UK, Rupert Loman is acutely aware of the challenges which media professionals are facing in an age where social media users are often first to discover interesting news. Indeed, many established media websites have been repeatedly accused of being lazy, and of repurposing findings from unpaid content creators who tend to post on sites like Neogaf, Resetera, Reddit, and X (formerly known as Twitter). And in an age where unpaid enthusiasts are arguably doing "better" work than established professionals, one really does begin to wonder as to whether more should be done to reward (and recognise) the efforts of "amateurs" - who routinely give "professionals" a run for their money, and who also get better news-worthy scoops in the process.
At the same time, and in light of the duplicitous manner in which Isamu Fukui (aka Cerium) underhandedly profited from all the hard work of the denizens of the "communist" forum that is Resetera (to the extent that neither the users nor the mods got paid), what's even more egregious is the fact that a forum like Resetera would only have cost around $4000 on ...