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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 2669586" data-attributes="member: 1">But there's nothing new happening here.  You should have been saying all this 4 years ago!  Allow me to demonstrate.I've always done that in various ways.  I do it less than Eric ever did before me, but I've always done it.  The news these days is far more impartial than it once was, when it was what one guy thought was cool.  But it has never, ever, ever been an automated, unedited system - news has ALWAYS been edited, rewritten, summarised, cut down and so forth.  And, frankly, what appears on the news page is vastly more important than what appears in this forum, views-wise, by several orgers of magnitude.  This forum is used as source of information by the newshounds, but never, ever have the cut and pasted news items from here.  What's actually written in here is almost inconsequential compared to what's on the news page, and the news page is compiled and edited.  Or, in your words, "biased".  Some sites just post PRs as they are  (see Gaming Report).  EN World's never done that.  I've always decided what's interesting, what's not, what deserves to be reported, what doesn't.  I think you've been under a major misapprehension as to what EN World's news is for years!EN World's RPGShop affiliate store has had preferential treatment for years.  Check out the news each day if you don't believe me.  Long ago, Eric Noah's Amazon affiliate links did the same thing.  That's preferential treatment.  Nobody ever complained about that!It's not dishonest in the slightest.  No deception whatsoever.  That's silly - sorry!  What if I had spent CS account purchases on a new car and not granted CS accounts?  In what way is this a new concept?Again, I say - affiliate RPGShop.  What would I have done in that situation?  No change there.Amazon.  RPGNow.  DTRPG.  ALL have customer written reviews.  No difference.  All your concerns have applied for years.  They are no more valid now than they were then - or they were just as valid then as they are now (both ways round work!)In summary - I'm afraid I disagree with your assertion that the news is now untrustworthy.  However, I fully respect your right to hold that opinion and act in whatever way you feel is best for you, and wouldn't dream of trying to dissuade you from it.  But we're not going to agree on this subject, I'm afraid! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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