At least a couple of those sites are mostly bot-written advertisements. RockPaperShotgun being the biggest offender…a shame because it has the best name
When the founders all left, and/or Eurogamer acquired it (related) and started pushing the same videos/rubbish guides designed for SEO optimization rather than interesting articles written with passion.
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At least a couple of those sites are mostly bot-written advertisements. RockPaperShotgun being the biggest offender…a shame because it has the best name
Huh? When did it go to crap? I read it for at least several years regularly. Kieran etc
Yeah I used to enjoy them. But they’ve been really shit recently
When the founders all left, and/or Eurogamer acquired it (related) and started pushing the same videos/rubbish guides designed for SEO optimization rather than interesting articles written with passion.