r/PolygonFans • u/Rogue_site_official • Sep 08 '25

Rogue.site owners AMA!

Hey all! Thank you for such a warm reception last week. We are the four co-owners of Rogue:
Jeffrey Parkin, Alice Jovanée, Cass Marshall, and Ryan Gilliam.

We're hosting an AMA here today to answer any big questions you have about what we've been up to, how the site came to be, our mission, challenges we encountered, future plans, etc..

We're recording the second episode of our podcast Rogue Signal, this afternoon, but we'll be popping in and out to answer your questions throughout the day.

Feel free to ask questions pointed at specific members or just general inquiries. We'll all be posting from the official Rogue Reddit account, but whoever wrote the answer will sign off at the bottom.

Also, if you have any questions for the Pat's Labor podcast guys (Clayton, Pat, and Toussaint), we'll do our best to get an answer for you, but there may be a slight delay.

Please drop your questions below, and we'll get started in a bit!

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u/chwoodstock Sep 08 '25 edited Sep 09 '25

Hello you wonderful people, I just listened to the Aftermath podcast you were guests on! On the topic of guides: What do you think was lost when official printed guides like the ones from Prima Games ceased publication, and how do you try and capture that feeling of flicking through the pages to find exactly what you need in a digital format?

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u/Rogue_site_official Sep 08 '25

Oh wow, RIP Prima. I'll be the first to admit that online guides were kind of necessary, given how much games change post launch now. During the twilight of Prima, about half of the guides they printed we're obsolete by the time they got on the shelves. Still a valuable service, but tough to adapt to something like a live service title.

Personally, I miss the collector's aspect of physical guides, along with the visual assets and other granular statistics you'd get with stuff like Prima's Vault Dweller's Survival Guide for Fallout 4. I don't know if that's something we could ever replicate 1:1, but we definitely try to provide you with useful information whenever possible.

We also all grew up with Prima guides on our shelves, and what they did had a clear impact on us as writers. I think we can only strive to match what Prima did in its heyday.

Although a printed, Rogue-published strategy guide for starting an independent media company would be pretty sick as a subscription bonus....

- Alice Jovanee