Cyanotetyphas wrote on Jul 25, 2012, 00:00:
It will be interesting to see if the editorial content will change at all. In the last few years PA has seemed more and more careful and genial when discussing current games, which I guess was a result of proximity to corporate dong. I wouldn't pay but I can see some good coming from it.

Sepharo wrote on Jul 25, 2012, 01:53:
A quote from Gabe's friday post:

A while back I wrote a post about quitting SW:TOR and how disappointed I was with some aspects of the game. I don’t mind telling you that because of that post I was not able to do a Star Wars PA Presents project we’d been talking with them about doing. If you know me you know that the idea of getting to draw official SW stuff was incredibly exciting. I knew that when I posted that article I was throwing that project in the garbage. I don’t want to ever have to think about hurting our relationship with a publisher or making our ad guy’s jobs any harder.

That's what I mean by it being more about the influence of ads than just removing the visual disturbance of the ads themselves.