ASOS is dead

While going through my links and updating them accordingly, I noticed that the once popular Att skriva om spel-blog has been shut down. It was a place where swedish game journalists freely and openly could discuss game journalism from all possible angles. It served it's purpose a long time and was a good place to brainstorm and argue.

Sadly it's end wasn't as glamourous. It kinda stopped dead in it's tracks, ending up as a place a few select individuals could use for their own holy crusades. Of course the vast majority was still serious and using the blog in the way it should be, it's just that these one or two individuals (who I'm not gonna name, they know who they are, but I'm not here to pick a fight) managed to completely destroy the atmosphere and drag everyone else into aome sort of bitch-mode.

It's a damn shame.

Anyway, they didn't kill the blog, they just made then end more sad. What probably killed the blog was that, in the end, everything had been said. Most discussions ended up regurgitating the same arguments for or against different approaches over and over again. And by that time, what role were ASOS playing then?

I will miss ASOS, since it was a wonderful time when one could discuss interesting matters with colleagues from other publications. But all good things must come to an end, and I wonder if not ASOS was stretching it that last year after all.