The only thing I can think to say is that I wouldn’t even be here writing about games had it not been for Waypoint’s existence. I didn’t even pitch them. They just inspired me to do criticism. I wrote for a tiny site for a year before starting my own blog because I wanted to follow in Waypoint’s footsteps.
They were an unmitigated good for this industry. Every permutation, including the team that will turn the lights off one last time in June, was the best to ever do it.
Media layoffs have made me angry and sad before. That feeling is familiar. But this one leaves me unmoored.
Maybe the best thing to do now, for everybody still dead set on doing this, is to pick up the mantle of Waypoint’s mission: become beacons in the dark that declare, yes, we will walk into the night.