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Posted: Jan 26th 2012 5:36PM Styli said

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And poor Andy Bauman (KOXM Podcaster) was among those lay offs. He only just got the Future job about 6 months ago. Last in, first out. This sucks... :(
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Posted: Jan 26th 2012 7:19PM Hoffer said

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That stinks!! The guy moved to San Francisco for that job. I wonder if he'll do the podcast anymore. I wouldn't be too interested in continuing to do a podcast, for no pay, for a company that just canned me.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2012 7:46PM Styli said

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It's very sad. I would like to think they had no idea this was coming when they hired him and uprooted his life. He was really psyched for that job and he just got married too. It seems to contradict their strategy that they would let a video editor/producer go when they're going digital. Hopefully, he'll find something soon.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2012 5:36PM Startingline13 ArmlessOctopus said

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They were JUST hiring at a few of those locations. Odd.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2012 5:58PM TLatshaw said

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@Startingline13 ArmlessOctopus

Many publishers with hands in print are laying off some of its force while hiring new people with more of a concentrated digital/online skills set. It's happening with a lot of newspapers, and it sounds like what may be happening here as well.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2012 5:36PM Haizeus said

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Worst in the business as far as I'm concerned, but it's still sad to see people lose their jobs.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2012 5:39PM CoconutSkittle said

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I'm so sad and tired of reading headlines like this :(
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Posted: Jan 26th 2012 5:52PM richtaur said

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-1
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Posted: Jan 26th 2012 6:55PM arkweld said

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It would help if US magazines didn't suck.

I gladly pay $200 a year for UK subs but US magazines are barely worth the paper they are printed on. You're lucky if you can buy a Future magazine that's over 100 pages and 50% of that is advertising.

The rest of the magazines are usually filler with links saying "for the full review and more photos visit our Web site."
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Posted: Jan 26th 2012 7:47PM Proghog said

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Hopefully none of the PC Gamer guys got pick slipped. They are enough console centric blogs and mags out there but there is only one magazine and very blogs.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2012 7:52PM Proghog said

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*pink.
This also coming from a subscriber of PC Gamer.
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Posted: Jan 26th 2012 7:58PM PigheadedBobobo said

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Huge fan of the folks at gameradar and four of them got layed off. super sad. also sad about andy tooo
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Posted: Jan 26th 2012 8:49PM 66jzmstr said

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At the very least, I'm glad to see no mags are being suttered. Future had two surprisingly quality snowboard mags ("Future Snowboarding" and "Snowboarder's Journal") and shut both of them down.
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Posted: Jan 27th 2012 12:51AM pluupy said

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Maybe if they stopped making 85% of the damned magazines nothing but advertisements then maybe more people will buy. I've seen lots of magazines go on sale lately for almost 80% of thier original price because they think people aren't buying because it's expensive.

Is it me, or corporate bigheads are really stupid?
Do they look at their magazines and legitimately think people want more ads?
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Posted: Jan 27th 2012 3:48AM Bengosha said

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Stand sales and subscriptions just aren't enough to even cover the expense of publishing their mags all over the country. If they didn't have that many ads (and getting people to even buy the ad space is getting more and more challenging) they couldn't stay in business.
Don't know anything about the euro mags though. Are they selling any better? Logistically, I guess shipping is easier because it's so much smaller.
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