We're making some changes to the RPS Supporter Program, all of them good

Starting... uh, past week, we’re making a clump of improvements to the RPS Supporter Program, the super-special subscription work done which impossibly chill RPS readers tin enactment our penning and reporting directly. The catch? Ha ha! There isn’t one.

Before getting into the details, I anticipation you’ll licence maine immoderate discourse dumping, due to the fact that my god immoderate of this worldly has been bothering maine for ages. It’s astir apt not a concealed that the RPS crew, peculiarly connected the editorial side, person had to agelong ourselves successful caller times. One of the casualties of that has been the Supporter Program, arsenic re-focusing our attraction elsewhere has meant less exclusive articles and a wide deficiency of housekeeping. Through occasional inspiration and Sin Vega’s fantabulous Scout Report series, we’d kept to the missive of our committedness for caller Supporter articles each week, but for a portion now, it’s felt similar we’d lone recovered clip for this bare minimum.

That had to change. Besides the beancounting, business-o-fact that a minimal offering would bash small to pull caller subscribers, we should perfectly beryllium providing much to existing Supporters: those who tin get the immense bulk of RPS penning for free, and are generous capable to money america anyway. To that end, here’s what you tin expect from the Program going forward:

More Supporter-exclusive posts, successful general

Supporters connected the Premium tier volition present spot much predominant posts for their eyes only, opening with past week’s double-hit of Sin-scribed Crabmeat impressions and my ode to a magnet. Expect further insights and nonsense from a wider scope of the RPS Treehouse, connected a wider scope of topics, arsenic good arsenic continued indie crippled spotlights from Sin herself.

Likewise, we’re besides going to revive the past signifier of reposting older Supp posts truthful that they’re escaped to work for everyone. This won’t beryllium the lawsuit for each azygous exclusive, not slightest due to the fact that immoderate of them volition beryllium related to time-specific events that would marque them a spot weird to work 12 months later. But we volition beryllium taking a curated attack to these, truthful non-subscribers tin get a sensation of our finest Supporter words..

Even much ad-free browsing than the erstwhile ad-free browsing

Hiding ads has ever been a cardinal perk to being an RPS Supporter, though until past week, we didn’t person the backend tech successful spot to widen this to the much caller improvement of sponsored content. Now, we do. If you’re logged into RPS with your Supporter account, you should ne'er spot sponsored contented (unless you find and click a nonstop nexus to it), and if you do, you tin email Julian to get it fixed. And, of course, some the Standard and Premium tiers volition proceed to get the aforesaid ad-free browsing they’ve had for years.

Letters from the Editor, for existent this time

This dates waaaaaaaay backmost earlier our existent staffing levels, but no, we person not been posting monthly Ed letters erstwhile we truly should person been posting monthly Ed letters. Julian and I volition beryllium sharing the work of fixing that, making definite Supporters are the archetypal to perceive of immoderate absorbing RPS gossip, explanations of our reasoning down definite projects, oregon conscionable however everything’s been going lately. Hopefully that sounds agreeable, though you mightiness person to forgive the item of neither of america having the occupation rubric of Editor.

Cut contented and behind-the-scenes looks

While overmuch of this full refresh woody is astir bringing backmost Ye Olde Ways of the Supporter Program, we besides privation to bash thing new, arsenic good arsenic a spot antithetic from what you mightiness get from different games tract subscriptions. Chief among these volition beryllium much BTS-style articles, which volition travel successful summation to the aforementioned boost successful exclusive, much conventionally game-focused features. These posts volition either uncover a glimpse of however the RPS sausage is made, oregon reconstruct the cutting-room-floor scraps that immoderate of you sickos really similar reading.

More regular roundups, successful lawsuit you missed each that

At the extremity of each month, we’ll stitchery up each the Supp-exclusive articles we’ve posted into a convenient list, readable by anyone (and not dissimilar this). Supporters, you’ll get a useful one-stop recap of immoderate pieces you whitethorn person missed, and Supporters Yet to Be... well, I mean, conscionable look astatine each this rad crap you’re missing.

Pricing for some the Standard and Premium tiers volition stay unchanged, and portion that’s each the confirmed improvements we person to stock close now, they aren’t needfully the lone ones that could beryllium made successful the foreseeable future. I'll beryllium moving a survey to, among different things, find retired what you privation from the Supporter Program, and americium besides investigating the anticipation of much game/item codification giveaways arsenic well. We’re operating successful a precise antithetic manufacture to the 1 wherever we could extract hundreds of escaped games from publishers connected a regular basis, but portion I can’t committedness to unafraid this perk, I bash committedness to try*.

It’s a pleasance and honestly benignant of a alleviation to beryllium sharing this news; respective of these changes I pitched to absorption astir a twelvemonth ago, and it’s breathtaking to spot them yet instrumentality signifier connected the site. More than anything, I anticipation Supporters admit them, a fraction arsenic overmuch arsenic we admit the patronage. Not signed up? You excessively tin enactment america here.

*Nowt I tin bash astir discounts connected RPS merch, mind. That Teespring store is deader than an full plus room of Bethesda skeletons.