Slurms’ Pondering of the day: Coming full circle?
For the last few months of 2009, and perhaps even January of 2010, the MMO blogging community had seemed to be in a state of limbo. Most of us (if I’m even considered a “member” anymore due to recent slew of non MMO gaming) started writing blogs about a specific game, and either moved on to a different title, or wrote about whatever fancied us. Towards the end of last year though, there was a wave of MMO’s that hit the beach, pulling us one way or another, and mostly tasting like seaweed. But a few made lasting impressions and soaked the clothes of certain bloggers while others went away with the tide. Now with seemingly nothing on the horizon until Star Wars: The Old Republic releases next year, most of us look to be settling in. Some have one title; some have many to fill all the gaps. I wonder how long some of the relationships will last, but I almost think we’ll see some of the bloggers start painting with more fine brushes.
Do you see this as a good thing, a bad thing, or am I reading the MMO blogging landscape all wrong?
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Lots of microtransaction mmos on the horizon, but they don’t seem to generate devoted sites/blogs.
A good thing, I love core-game centered blogs because they tend to offer specific information (not to say MP doesn’t by any means).
General sites will always exist, game-specific ones tend to come and go, so its nice to see them on the rise again.
I prefer blogs with a single-game focus that also tends to keep up with random wtf-moments across the gaming industry. Also, op-ed pieces are better than regurgitated hash that everyone already knew about (or will know about in the near future).
I think single game blogs are good. I initially started with my Warhammer one, next Aion, and than Wasdstomp my general gaming.
I go back, and forth with myself on which is best. I haven’t posted any new content on my Warhammer, or Aion blogs but both still get more daily visitors than my general gaming blog.
The problem with single game blogs is if you decide to stop playing the game, or the inner rage gets the best of you than you just become really negative, or have to just abandon it.
The nice thing about a general gaming blog is you can quit a game, and move on to another without having to start a new blog. It is easier to write better quality posts because you have a wide range of topics you can cover.
It sucks on a single game blog to always write content that is great. It feels like sometimes weeks go by with nothing really to talk about that the other 100 single game blogs haven’t already regurgitated.
I personally see alot of blogs disappearing, and not many new ones to replace them right now. I feel sorry for all the SWTOR bloggers. How can you talk about a game that may still be a year or two away with the announced delay.
So for now I really enjoy writing on my general gaming blog, and plan on keeping it going for years.
Oddly enough, the Slurms Futurama was on last night
Unfortunately, most MMO players are like over the road truck drivers…we sit around with the thousand yard stare through glassy, blood-shot eyes from lack of sleep…we bitch and complain about what we are doing at the moment while hoping with great expectations about the next great thing that’s coming up ahead over the next hill while at the same time looking back in the rear view mirror at once was with great fondness!
It’s the natural cycle. Many, MANY of us started off as primarily WAR bloggers. The community that game’s hype spawned will never cease to be anything buy amazing to me. That said, as peoples interest change and shift, we’re bound to lose contact and not keep up with others we started with as much as before. It happens in real life in school after graduation, or jobs after relocations or layoffs. The common uniting factor that brought people together is rarely strong enough to persist beyond the dissolution of said unifier.
For my own personal take, there aren’t many “WAR-specific” blogs anymore. I don’t really classify myself as one either, not really. I love WAR, and it’s what I play primarily, and I don’t see that changing. I have no qualms what-so-ever in foraying off into other games/fields/what-have you, as the mood strikes me. Some of the people whom I read the most I met while starting with other WAR blogs, have now gone on to other games or general gaming. Multiplaying being one of them, and Rivs, my Italian-American man-twin/lover.
well said chum
and by chum I mean friend, not shark bait…
I already foresee the cycle repeating itself in another year or so. More MMO’s will come, TOR and Cataclysm will launch. It’ll be an interesting ride.
Oh yeah, I can really relate to this one. I was playing Aion but just couldn’t get inspired enough to blog.
Now I’m back in Darkfall and blogging more then ever before!
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Lots of microtransaction mmos on the horizon, but they don’t seem to generate devoted sites/blogs.
A good thing, I love core-game centered blogs because they tend to offer specific information (not to say MP doesn’t by any means).
General sites will always exist, game-specific ones tend to come and go, so its nice to see them on the rise again.
I prefer blogs with a single-game focus that also tends to keep up with random wtf-moments across the gaming industry. Also, op-ed pieces are better than regurgitated hash that everyone already knew about (or will know about in the near future).
I think single game blogs are good. I initially started with my Warhammer one, next Aion, and than Wasdstomp my general gaming.
I go back, and forth with myself on which is best. I haven’t posted any new content on my Warhammer, or Aion blogs but both still get more daily visitors than my general gaming blog.
The problem with single game blogs is if you decide to stop playing the game, or the inner rage gets the best of you than you just become really negative, or have to just abandon it.
The nice thing about a general gaming blog is you can quit a game, and move on to another without having to start a new blog. It is easier to write better quality posts because you have a wide range of topics you can cover.
It sucks on a single game blog to always write content that is great. It feels like sometimes weeks go by with nothing really to talk about that the other 100 single game blogs haven’t already regurgitated.
I personally see alot of blogs disappearing, and not many new ones to replace them right now. I feel sorry for all the SWTOR bloggers. How can you talk about a game that may still be a year or two away with the announced delay.
So for now I really enjoy writing on my general gaming blog, and plan on keeping it going for years.
Oddly enough, the Slurms Futurama was on last night
Unfortunately, most MMO players are like over the road truck drivers…we sit around with the thousand yard stare through glassy, blood-shot eyes from lack of sleep…we bitch and complain about what we are doing at the moment while hoping with great expectations about the next great thing that’s coming up ahead over the next hill while at the same time looking back in the rear view mirror at once was with great fondness!
It’s the natural cycle. Many, MANY of us started off as primarily WAR bloggers. The community that game’s hype spawned will never cease to be anything buy amazing to me. That said, as peoples interest change and shift, we’re bound to lose contact and not keep up with others we started with as much as before. It happens in real life in school after graduation, or jobs after relocations or layoffs. The common uniting factor that brought people together is rarely strong enough to persist beyond the dissolution of said unifier.
For my own personal take, there aren’t many “WAR-specific” blogs anymore. I don’t really classify myself as one either, not really. I love WAR, and it’s what I play primarily, and I don’t see that changing. I have no qualms what-so-ever in foraying off into other games/fields/what-have you, as the mood strikes me. Some of the people whom I read the most I met while starting with other WAR blogs, have now gone on to other games or general gaming. Multiplaying being one of them, and Rivs, my Italian-American man-twin/lover.
well said chum
and by chum I mean friend, not shark bait…
I already foresee the cycle repeating itself in another year or so. More MMO’s will come, TOR and Cataclysm will launch. It’ll be an interesting ride.
Oh yeah, I can really relate to this one. I was playing Aion but just couldn’t get inspired enough to blog.
Now I’m back in Darkfall and blogging more then ever before!
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