Okay this will be a bit of venting and maybe it's a bit unnecessary to make a topic of this but still ...

Many of you probably know the website Rock, Paper, Shotgun, one of the only proper PC news sites still left on the Internet, run by (mostly) ex-PC Gamer UK staff members. For a long time, I quite appreciated RPS for what it does but I've become increasingly more annoyed at their bias.

Earlier today, they actually made a topic that, gasp, Planescape Torment would be coming to Steam. It hasn't actually ARRIVED at Steam yet, mind you ... but that still warrants a full news topic according to well-known Steam/Valve fanboy Craig Pearson. Besides an off-the-cuff mark that GOG sold it (without actually saying they still do, not to mention a broken link to the GOG website), the bias towards Steam is just so obvious considering it's really REALLY not worth a news topic of its own.

If the roles were reversed and the game had been on Steam first and then coming to GOG, RPS wouldn't have given a single f**k. Sad. Especially when you consider there were at least 40 Steam-centric/involved articles during the last 3 months ... and 2 involving GOG during that same time ... and just 1 involving Gamersgate. Fanboys much?

It's just one example in a long list of examples of why I stopped subscribing to PC Gamer - PC Gamer really became "WOW Gamer" or "Steam Gamer". Since when is it okay for journalist to be so openly biased towards certain companies to the point where nearly every article mentions Valve, Steam or Blizzard? And now they're dragging it to RPS ... .

So yeah, vent over - but it's very very sad that a PC-centric site would basically (mostly) ignore GOG and the great games being released only for them to make a news topic for every half-decent game released on Steam. (take Air Buccaneers - RPS even added Steam to the title to make sure you'd get it).

I think its more to do with the recent Planescape Tormet spirital sequel news causing the article rather than the fact its going to Steam
Plus why say its available at GOG when thats common knowledge?

Planscape Torment is coming to Steam? That is very good news indeed. This classic needs to be distributed on as many platforms as possible to reach as many players as possible.

That wasnt the point he was making i dont think.

As for rps, do they have any feature to comment on the topics or a contact sheet to ask them about their biasnesnes.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/09/28/alive-again-planescape-torment-on-gog/

For someone claiming bias you don't half demonstrate exactly what you're talking about.

RPS has its faults, but ignoring GOG isn't one of them.

it is called selective reading. It is quite fun :)

-_- well played

*loads gun & shoots amok

Which is why I added "(mostly)".

I don't think you got my point at all ... . Planescape is a big classic and if it had been released on Steam first and later on GOG, do you think they would have made a second article about it? My whole point is how quickly they make news articles involving Steam and how much they neglect the other digital sites - I'm not just talking about GOG. I'm talking about Steam getting 10 times as much exposure than GOG, Gamersgate, Impulse, Greenmangaming, etc. combined.

I often frequent RPS and I enjoy their articles, yet there is one caveat that should be written down at the top of the page and is quickly found out by readers, there is a major "pandering" to Steam and Paradox. I wouldn't call it biased, as that would mean that they ignore other developers or distributors, but these two companies get higher coverage than most others. At least this doesn't put into question their support for both indies and GOG, whose major releases are always published on their site.

(a) I did clearly state that it was a bit of venting - I realise it's not a HUGE topic, but the Planescape news report was just so thick of bias towards Steam to ignore it.

(b) They don't consider themselves a blog but a news sitee which means, to me, that there should be an element of impartiality.

(c) And no, their opinions never were more like mine - but at least I expect them to be more impartial in what topics they pick to report.

I already explicitly said why I'm complaining about this so if you can't see ... well, look closer? Glasses maybe?

This article? http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/12/05/planescape-torment-heading-to-steam/

if this is an example of what you call bias, then there might be some problems.... and not with RPS. It did not seem to bad at all.

I agree with what you said except that pandering is automatically bias too. You can't have one without the other. (as if pandering has any business on a news site anyway ... )

And no, RPS doesn't boycott any sites - that's not what I meant with ignoring. I meant it in the sense that it has to be pretty big news before they'll bother yet anytime Gabe farts, it gets its own news post. They're also far more critical of other digital services than of Steam - their continuous attacks on Ubisoft (and justly so) feel laughable when similar limitations made by Steam are brushed aside not to mention they gladly reported all the misinformation regarding Origin - and even made very large news topics about their EULA when Steam contains far worse example. But let's ignore that, eh?

Bottom line: it's all a bit silly and rather sad for one of the leading PC gaming news sites. You'd think well known writers would be above such obvious bias. Or is that too much to ask for in the modern world of crooked game journalists?
More of your selective reading I take it? I mean, even the title in the URL makes it pretty obvious.

He mentions it's already been for sale on GOG twice in that article... So he's not a complete asshole.

You mean the news site which had "full of bias" in the title for a couple of weeks recently?