Jeff Green Reacts to Kennedy’s Blog
- Scribbled on January 7th, 2009 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Editorial Content, Industry News
Jeff Green, former editor-in-chief of Games for Windows magazine (nee Computer Gaming World), has reacted to remaining 1Up.com editor Sam Kennedy’s blog about the recent UGO acquisition of 1Up.com and the subsequent layoffs. Green states that Kennedy was forced to “put on a brave face” since he’d inherited “a mess”. Green, now a member of The Sims 3 dev team, has no such constrictions, and thrashed UGO.
On Kennedy’s insistance that “we’re still the same 1UP, and we’ll still be producing the same content…we always have”, Green retorts:
Well, no, you’re not, and no, you won’t. You’re not the same 1UP because you just lost a gigantic chunk of what made 1up 1up. It may go on, it may in fact produce great things, but it won’t be the same. All that a company ever is is a mix of specific personalities. That’s all it is. Period. When you remove people, it may go on, but it’s never “the same.” Saying it’s the same is a disservice to all the people who just got canned. And, no, you won’t be “producing the same content” because those responsible for some of the most popular and distinctive content–the 1up Show, the podcasts–no longer work there anymore. So, again, you can’t say it’s “the same”. It’s not. (And since everyone on the Copy Desk got canned, too, it won’t be as well-edited, either.) Better to just acknowledge that, since we all know it anyway.
Check out Green’s blog for the full rant, as he sympathizes deeply for the fired writers who were deeply committed to 1Up.com, like Ryan Scott and Anthony Gallegos.
(Thanks Jonathon Howard, for the heads up.)
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