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RPS is one of the few sites I read daily for these sort of articles. They’ve been sliding into the hole of posting endless reports on the latest press release o

RPS is one of the few sites I read daily for these sort of articles. They’ve been sliding into the hole of posting endless reports on the latest press release on big games for a while, but there’s still frequent gems like this one in amongst all that - I’ll be curious to see if they keep it up with the last of the original founders leaving for pastures new in the next month or so.

gamblor956 8y ago
RPS was acquired by (or rather, sold to) Eurogamer in 2017. The quality has gone downhill in the past year due to editorial interference by the new ownership.
- lasagnaphil 8y ago
  I agree: I'm currently an RPS supporter, but am considering cancelling my subscription because of the recent decrease in quality. But then considering that RPS went downhill because of monetary reasons in the first place, I'm quite conflicted right now...
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
    Yeah, I opted not to renew my subscription when they were sold, and the direction they've gone since the acquisition has led me to believe that was the right move.
  - reificator 8y ago
    I get where you're coming from, but if I were in your shoes I'd probably cancel. If you were giving money in order to support writing that met a certain metric, and that metric is no longer met, there's no reason to continue supporting in the hopes that it will come back. It can happen, but time and time again it doesn't, especially if the payment system doesn't come with a way to make your feedback heard.
- on_and_off 8y ago
  Sadly true. I still read RPS even though I mostly play on console these days. I don't really feel like making the money + time investment of a full blown pc. Some RPS articles, especially those that don't talk about games like products are still worth a read. Sadly, I have also come to recognize one or two RPS contributors as those I should just skip entirely. RPS is also more and more anti readers, nowadays it adds a "container" on top of Youtube that injects their own ads on top of it. Since it is completely independant it also does not care if you have youtube premium. I tried to reach out to them numerous times about that but I didn't even get a response. I had to add RPS to my adblock rules, to my chagrin.
Tomte 8y ago
The "Wot I Think"s were great. Lots of personal style, combined with an actually informative review that gave me a clue whether I might like a game. Many authors try the first and then totally struggle with the second.
MrMember 8y ago
I read RPS nearly daily for around a decade but I stopped when they started blocking me for using an ad blocker. I miss The Flare Path (and Tim Stone's other articles) but the quality of writing had dropped quite a bit elsewhere. Most of my favorite writers had moved on.

gamblor956 8y ago

RPS was acquired by (or rather, sold to) Eurogamer in 2017. The quality has gone downhill in the past year due to editorial interference by the new ownership.

lasagnaphil 8y ago
I agree: I'm currently an RPS supporter, but am considering cancelling my subscription because of the recent decrease in quality. But then considering that RPS went downhill because of monetary reasons in the first place, I'm quite conflicted right now...
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
  Yeah, I opted not to renew my subscription when they were sold, and the direction they've gone since the acquisition has led me to believe that was the right move.
- reificator 8y ago
  I get where you're coming from, but if I were in your shoes I'd probably cancel. If you were giving money in order to support writing that met a certain metric, and that metric is no longer met, there's no reason to continue supporting in the hopes that it will come back. It can happen, but time and time again it doesn't, especially if the payment system doesn't come with a way to make your feedback heard.
on_and_off 8y ago
Sadly true. I still read RPS even though I mostly play on console these days. I don't really feel like making the money + time investment of a full blown pc. Some RPS articles, especially those that don't talk about games like products are still worth a read. Sadly, I have also come to recognize one or two RPS contributors as those I should just skip entirely. RPS is also more and more anti readers, nowadays it adds a "container" on top of Youtube that injects their own ads on top of it. Since it is completely independant it also does not care if you have youtube premium. I tried to reach out to them numerous times about that but I didn't even get a response. I had to add RPS to my adblock rules, to my chagrin.

Tomte 8y ago

The "Wot I Think"s were great. Lots of personal style, combined with an actually informative review that gave me a clue whether I might like a game. Many authors try the first and then totally struggle with the second.

MrMember 8y ago

I read RPS nearly daily for around a decade but I stopped when they started blocking me for using an ad blocker. I miss The Flare Path (and Tim Stone's other articles) but the quality of writing had dropped quite a bit elsewhere. Most of my favorite writers had moved on.