If you don't like the Fanboi program, wherein people who live and breath their games write about the games, then I would simply suggest that you don't read the fanboi articles (which are clearly labelled as such) and wait for the site's official review. ( btw we don't have one in the works kekekeke ) As to the frequency of Darkfall coverage... Darkfall articles consistently perform well in terms of traffic. This idicates to me that there are fanbois who need emotional reinforcement about the game. As such, we will provide articles. We likes the $$.
I mean this in the most respectful way. but ever since 2003, this site has gone downhill, and i suspect this is why, and why the tone here changed. On the forums, and in its daily content.
You are intentionally fanning the flames on your own site by posting intentionally baited material. I understand the need to create traffic.... but yeah... I understand capitalizing on controversy. Your presentation of the articles are misleading to your player base. You know this, OR you would NOT have to keep coming into threads defending them, or dismissing the comments made on the with "This is an overview/opinion piece". This goes for any game.
Can we go back to creating traffic buy posting things of value? I highly enjoy the new columnists, as well as reviews from your PAID professional staff. This correspondent program is little more than your addition of player blogs. Please separate the two (News and opinion).
This is also, again, listed under news.
I agree, if I didn't actually read the comments and find out what an actual " correspondant " meant, then I would have took them as credible articles.
MMORPG.com Darkfall Correspondent Andy Cormier takes a look at some of the current issues that are present in Aventurine's sandbox MMORPG, Darkfall. In my initial overview of Darkfall, I went over the game in very broad strokes. Now I'm going to kick off this overview a bit differently than most. Instead of peppering in the good with the bad like most other articles, we are going to delve exclusively into the negative. I wanted to do things this way since there is such an over abundance of misinformation floating around, leaving many undecided people that have no idea if many of the alleged problems in Darkfall actually exist, or not.
This is why I'm skeptical often of reviewers of games, there is far too much going on around the state of this game for this review to be even taken seriously basically you are saying that there are really only three problems with this game and the rest is just the player base hmm. I think since you are involved in the politics of the gaming industry I'll have to defer to the player base on this one and assume that the problems most mention in fact do exist regardless of if you've come across them or not.
This reinforces that I will continue to get my reviews from these forums and not from staff but from users who leave their opinion on the games on site of course we can clearly read that some people are just having bad days sometimes and some truly have an axe to grind with certain companies etc. but it's much easier seeing through the players bs than those who write for this or any other publication.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
I'm sure we will be seeing touted by Tasos on the Darkfall forums going "SEE! They get it!".
Yes but we know that the reviewers/overviewers or whatever they are called at anyh given time are friendly towards DFO, so those of us looking for an unbiased report on DFO will not find one on MMORPG.com, then again I really haven't seen any unbiased reviews/overviews from any other source, but nor have I seen any other site than this give DFO as much coverage or leniency in that coverage.
If you don't like the Correspondent program, wherein people who play and enjoy their games write about the games, then I would simply suggest that you don't read the Correspondent articles (which are clearly labelled as such) and wait for the site's official review.
As to the frequency of Darkfall coverage... Darkfall articles consistently perform well in terms of traffic. This idicates to me that there are people who want to read about the game. As such, we will provide articles. It just makes sense.
Darkfall get's lot's of coverage hmmm no stuff I'd say so did AOC,SWG (during their messy years),D&L and look at the sub numbers for those games, of course it get's lot's of traffic it's a train wreck and everyone knows we'd rather see a picture of a train wreck than a picture of a beautiful garden.
I just think that we need to consider what the end result of what we say could be and let's be honest you know damn well if everyone who read your article coughed up fifty bucks to play this turd you'd have a lot more people pissed at you for suggesting it than you would have people thanking you and my problem is that does not come across in your article at all you basically suggest there is nothing wrong with this game which just isn't the case.
I do think you should be cut a bit of slack personally but I think MMORPG should do a better job of highlighting that this is not a true review but an opinion of someone who plays and enjoys the game which is an impression I didn't get until you said it above. I would only hope you'd have a bit more of a journalistic attitude and have atleast mentioned there are other problems that people may percieve though you don't see it that way.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
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I spent an hour and a half today running to a racial enemy city.
The only people I came across was a group of naked guys using a wall exploit to kill overlords.
Cheating is def. non issue.
Overlords are inside of racial cities? And towers didnt shoot you? Amazing. What race? I want to reroll one of those guys.
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I mean this in the most respectful way. but ever since 2003, this site has gone downhill, and i suspect this is why, and why the tone here changed. On the forums, and in its daily content.
You are intentionally fanning the flames on your own site by posting intentionally baited material. I understand the need to create traffic.... but yeah... I understand capitalizing on controversy. Your presentation of the articles are misleading to your player base. You know this, OR you would NOT have to keep coming into threads defending them, or dismissing the comments made on the with "This is an overview/opinion piece". This goes for any game.
Can we go back to creating traffic buy posting things of value? I highly enjoy the new columnists, as well as reviews from your PAID professional staff. This correspondent program is little more than your addition of player blogs. Please separate the two (News and opinion).
This is also, again, listed under news.
I agree, if I didn't actually read the comments and find out what an actual " correspondant " meant, then I would have took them as credible articles.
Read Overview Part II, Looking at the Down Side
This is why I'm skeptical often of reviewers of games, there is far too much going on around the state of this game for this review to be even taken seriously basically you are saying that there are really only three problems with this game and the rest is just the player base hmm. I think since you are involved in the politics of the gaming industry I'll have to defer to the player base on this one and assume that the problems most mention in fact do exist regardless of if you've come across them or not.
This reinforces that I will continue to get my reviews from these forums and not from staff but from users who leave their opinion on the games on site of course we can clearly read that some people are just having bad days sometimes and some truly have an axe to grind with certain companies etc. but it's much easier seeing through the players bs than those who write for this or any other publication.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
Yes but we know that the reviewers/overviewers or whatever they are called at anyh given time are friendly towards DFO, so those of us looking for an unbiased report on DFO will not find one on MMORPG.com, then again I really haven't seen any unbiased reviews/overviews from any other source, but nor have I seen any other site than this give DFO as much coverage or leniency in that coverage.
If you don't like the Correspondent program, wherein people who play and enjoy their games write about the games, then I would simply suggest that you don't read the Correspondent articles (which are clearly labelled as such) and wait for the site's official review.
As to the frequency of Darkfall coverage... Darkfall articles consistently perform well in terms of traffic. This idicates to me that there are people who want to read about the game. As such, we will provide articles. It just makes sense.
Darkfall get's lot's of coverage hmmm no stuff I'd say so did AOC,SWG (during their messy years),D&L and look at the sub numbers for those games, of course it get's lot's of traffic it's a train wreck and everyone knows we'd rather see a picture of a train wreck than a picture of a beautiful garden.
I just think that we need to consider what the end result of what we say could be and let's be honest you know damn well if everyone who read your article coughed up fifty bucks to play this turd you'd have a lot more people pissed at you for suggesting it than you would have people thanking you and my problem is that does not come across in your article at all you basically suggest there is nothing wrong with this game which just isn't the case.
I do think you should be cut a bit of slack personally but I think MMORPG should do a better job of highlighting that this is not a true review but an opinion of someone who plays and enjoys the game which is an impression I didn't get until you said it above. I would only hope you'd have a bit more of a journalistic attitude and have atleast mentioned there are other problems that people may percieve though you don't see it that way.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....