Eurogamer Discussion

Jogort

Jonbwfc Yeah I don’t have adblocker turned on for the site on my phone and it’s pretty unobtrusive.

Gordon

Jonbwfc That’s odd. I use Ad-Guard and BlockBear on my iPad and I’m not seeing that message.

Jonbwfc

Seems their ad blocker blocker code is a bit hit and miss then 🙂. I have ad-guard installed, and another one called ‘hush’, presumably that’s the one it’s detecting. I’ve not tried for a bit but the last time I looked at EG’s home page ‘unfiltered’ the ads were far from unobtrusive, they took up more space than the content did.

Jonbwfc

Just switched the filters off and went to have a look at their front page. ‘Unobtrusive’? Not… really… they do cycle quite fast so you,might get some that are smaller and more tonally matched to the page, but I find the cycling itself fairly distracting if I’m honest.

One thing I’ve never quite understood with web ads is there’s apparently no option to say “our site is predominantly white, black and this blue (provide Pantone ref). Can you try and use ads that blend with our colour scheme please?”

DrDamn

Jonbwfc One thing I’ve never quite understood with web ads is there’s apparently no option to say “our site is predominantly white, black and this blue (provide Pantone ref). Can you try and use ads that blend with our colour scheme please?”

Unless it’s a very important site for the company they would likely tell them where to stick the request. Just like EG they have their own identity for their brand which will likely include colour schemes. They aren’t going to adjust those for a website like EG.

I note that VG247 who totally aren’t the same company as EG and not affiliated in any way have also coincidentally added the same subs scheme. Is it all linked or are they expecting you to pay for each?

Gammerz

I’m signed in on PC using Adblock and I can browse OK with no warnings.

Jogort

Must just be in mobile mode that it’s fine for me then.

Jonbwfc

Jogort could be, I have safari set in ‘desktop’ mode because getting the ‘mobile’ version of a lot of sites on a ipad size screen can look a bit rubbish.

Jonbwfc

DrDamn I wasn’t suggesting negotiating with the brand, besides which as far as I know EG don’t even decide which ad goes in there, they just rent the space to an ad broker. It just makes ads (to me anyway) even more jarring if you get a predominantly red advert on a website that is predominantly blue say. In design terms, keep it to the colour wheel guys 🙂.

Mind you, the brands may like it because it makes their ads ‘stand out more’.

Jonbwfc

DrDamn as far as I know yes, all the gamernetworks sites have adopted the subscription model - so I assume RPS have too - but they didn’t manage to do it in a way they could all use the same subscription, so you have to get separate ones even if you use the same login.

Quite a few people pointed out this was somewhat inconvenient to Oli in the announcement post.

Alex

Oli Welsh to step down as editor, to be replaced by Martin Robinson.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-11-26-editors-blog-im-leaving-eurogamer-at-the-end-of-the-year

Brave

Alex Martin deserves that imo. He’s a good journalist, writer and actually enthusiastic about games. I might actually get a sub based on that news.

Brave

I’m confused though. I thought Wesley Yin Poole took over as editor earlier in the year, with Oli more in a high level overseer role.

Alex

No, that doesn’t ring any bells. I see Wesley Yin Poole is going into a more of a managerial role overseeing all the news from the network (EG/RPS etc).

Brave

Yep, he did.

I’m really really pleased. I felt like Oli had lost his love for the medium long ago, and if it wasn’t about Street Fighter or FIFA then WYP wasn’t at all bothered outside of triggering whatever fan base was tuning in for news.

Alex

I always liked Oli and thought he did a good job. He was the one that created the current video team etc.

Jonbwfc

I’m just wondering what Lottie did to somehow not be made an editor, ‘cos it seems everyone else at Eurogamer is.

Jonbwfc

Wow. Currently on EG’s home page, 9 of the 10 newest articles are basically adverts, and the other one is a plug for someone’s book, so basically an advert in anything but name.

I know ‘Black Friday’ and all that, but… wow.

Brave

41 jellydeals-like articles since Friday. If you count the DF ones and the pretty nepotistic book article. That’s just madness after getting people to subscribe.

Also, have they killed the forum? I can’t find any link to it on the site. That was pretty quietly done. Not that I’ll mourn its loss, it was poorly modded and often highly toxic, but still I’m shocked I can’t find it.

GassyHaggis

Brave Yeah they announced in the forum itself a couple of weeks before they closed it. Think it was August or September it closed. A group of regulars ended up creating a new forum and everyone went there. From what I saw there were no mods and it was just as toxic.

DrDamn

Brave that last one for the Razer Naga Trinity mouse. It’s been £75 or under for most of the last 6 months. EG/Jelly Deals lording the 50% OFF!!! is galling. It’s mis-information for the sake of advertising.

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