Can Anybody Recommend A Good MMO Only Info Site?

Kwon

MMORPG.com seems to be about all sorts of games now.

Anybody recommend a good MMO only news/info site?  I hate that I need to click a few times and read a bit to see if the game is an MMO or not.  I discovered this site nearly a decade ago because it was for MMO's only.

Remember when "Genre" on the games list simply informed you what kind of MMO it was?   Not its just tells you if its an MMO or not.

Dont get me wrong:  I understand the lines are blurring as to what is an MMO or not, but come on, some of these games arent even close to MMO's. Just because there is a multiplayer option doesnt mean its an MMO.  Maybe MMORPG should consider starting a sister site for these games.

Any good MMO only sites you guys are visiting?

Kyleran

Ask yourself this...are most MMO players only interested in playing MMOs?

Of course not, they are interested in all sorts of games, so in these lean times for new MMORPGs, the site is catering to the broader tastes of it's audiance, and every other site that is trying to make a profit will do the same.

Culubu

Originally posted by Kyleran
Ask yourself this...are most MMO players only interested in playing MMOs?

I am.

Anyway, there's massivelyop.com and sometimes I browse reddit's mmo sub.

Sovrath

Originally posted by Culubu

Originally posted by Kyleran
Ask yourself this...are most MMO players only interested in playing MMOs?

I am.

Anyway, there's massivelyop.com and sometimes I browse reddit's mmo sub.

massivelyop.com is not an mmo only site.

 

 

Culubu

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Culubu

Originally posted by Kyleran
Ask yourself this...are most MMO players only interested in playing MMOs?

I am.

Anyway, there's massivelyop.com and sometimes I browse reddit's mmo sub.

massivelyop.com is not an mmo only site.

 

 

It's alright. Wanted to contribute and not letting this thread become some petty argument thread, but nvm.

Sovrath

Originally posted by Culubu

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Culubu

Originally posted by Kyleran
Ask yourself this...are most MMO players only interested in playing MMOs?

I am.

Anyway, there's massivelyop.com and sometimes I browse reddit's mmo sub.

massivelyop.com is not an mmo only site.

 

 

It's alright. Wanted to contribute and not letting this thread become some petty argument thread, but nvm.

No one is making it a "petty argument" thread.

He asked for an mmo only site. Problem is that there aren't really any that I have come across. And I've looked as I wanted to see what other mmo sites were out there.

In any case, the OP would then go to Massively only to find it has "other games" as well.

Having said that this site is supposed to be releasing a new design that is better with the segregation of these games. However, I strongly suspect that, other than the reddit site you mentioned, there aren't going to be a lot of "mmo only sites" going forward unless it's a private site that doesn't rely upon ad revenue.

Strizzy12

Although I can't really say how good it is... here's one I just came across today... mmogames.com 

Leiloni

This site still covers more MMORPG games and more stories than most other MMORPG sites. They also tend to have better quality articles - more well written, better content, and they at least try to be as unbiased as possible in not only what they say, but what they cover. Can't say that for some of the other sites. 

Quirhid

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Culubu

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Culubu

Originally posted by Kyleran
Ask yourself this...are most MMO players only interested in playing MMOs?

I am.

Anyway, there's massivelyop.com and sometimes I browse reddit's mmo sub.

massivelyop.com is not an mmo only site.

 

 

It's alright. Wanted to contribute and not letting this thread become some petty argument thread, but nvm.

No one is making it a "petty argument" thread.

He asked for an mmo only site. Problem is that there aren't really any that I have come across. And I've looked as I wanted to see what other mmo sites were out there.

In any case, the OP would then go to Massively only to find it has "other games" as well.

Having said that this site is supposed to be releasing a new design that is better with the segregation of these games. However, I strongly suspect that, other than the reddit site you mentioned, there aren't going to be a lot of "mmo only sites" going forward unless it's a private site that doesn't rely upon ad revenue.

Lovely. More "us vs them"-attitude, circle jerking and echo chambers.

Sovrath

Originally posted by Quirhid

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Culubu

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Culubu

Originally posted by Kyleran
Ask yourself this...are most MMO players only interested in playing MMOs?

I am.

Anyway, there's massivelyop.com and sometimes I browse reddit's mmo sub.

massivelyop.com is not an mmo only site.

 

 

It's alright. Wanted to contribute and not letting this thread become some petty argument thread, but nvm.

No one is making it a "petty argument" thread.

He asked for an mmo only site. Problem is that there aren't really any that I have come across. And I've looked as I wanted to see what other mmo sites were out there.

In any case, the OP would then go to Massively only to find it has "other games" as well.

Having said that this site is supposed to be releasing a new design that is better with the segregation of these games. However, I strongly suspect that, other than the reddit site you mentioned, there aren't going to be a lot of "mmo only sites" going forward unless it's a private site that doesn't rely upon ad revenue.

Lovely. More "us vs them"-attitude, circle jerking and echo chambers.

Well, there are people who want "mmo only news".

I "think" (at least from what I have read but I could have misunderstood it) that one can select the type of news that one sees.

I personally like an mmo site that adds info/news from other games I'm interested in.

finefluff

There is http://mmos.com

You could also try http://reddit.com/r/mmorpg

 

madazz

I'll be starting an actual mmo hall of fame. Not like the current fake one that has league of legends as a game. I won't be writing for it, but I'll be curating. There will be nothing but mmo news and games on it.

azzamasin

Originally posted by Culubu

Originally posted by Kyleran
Ask yourself this...are most MMO players only interested in playing MMOs?

I am.

Anyway, there's massivelyop.com and sometimes I browse reddit's mmo sub.

You're in the extreme minority and as such you pay the price commercially for your narrow likes.  I don't know of anyone that I play games with who are Genre specific.  Even my die hard MOBA friends are into FPS's or ARPG's.

Claies

Lovely, another closed minded site bashing post.

gaeanprayer

MMOGames.com, MMOHuts.com, MMOBomb.com, MMOs.com

 

To everyone else, stop arguing about dumb shit. This used to be a site about just MMOs, not they're all over the place but kept the MMO moniker. There's no denying they're playing two fields, it's purely a business decision, which is fine but not what everyone who came to this site wanted from it. Stop using a question about one thing as a platform for something else.

Kyleran

Originally posted by azzamasin

Originally posted by Culubu

Originally posted by Kyleran
Ask yourself this...are most MMO players only interested in playing MMOs?

I am.

Anyway, there's massivelyop.com and sometimes I browse reddit's mmo sub.

You're in the extreme minority and as such you pay the price commercially for your narrow likes.  I don't know of anyone that I play games with who are Genre specific.  Even my die hard MOBA friends are into FPS's or ARPG's.

You don't get out much, I'm one such person, I only play MMORPG's and only one at a time. I haven't played anything but EVE in almost a year now.  A number of my friends are just like me, play MMO's exclusively, we are found in DAOC, ESO or EVE most recently.

That said, no can make a living catering a site totally to my tastes, at least not in this day and age.

 

 

 

Sovrath

Originally posted by gaeanprayer

MMOGames.com, MMOHuts.com, MMOBomb.com, MMOs.com

 

To everyone else, stop arguing about dumb shit. This used to be a site about just MMOs, not they're all over the place but kept the MMO moniker. There's no denying they're playing two fields, it's purely a business decision, which is fine but not what everyone who came to this site wanted from it. Stop using a question about one thing as a platform for something else.

Ok great, but every site you just listed has "non mmo games" on them.

 

Loktofeit

Originally posted by Kyleran

Originally posted by azzamasin

Originally posted by Culubu

Originally posted by Kyleran
Ask yourself this...are most MMO players only interested in playing MMOs?

I am.

Anyway, there's massivelyop.com and sometimes I browse reddit's mmo sub.

You're in the extreme minority and as such you pay the price commercially for your narrow likes.  I don't know of anyone that I play games with who are Genre specific.  Even my die hard MOBA friends are into FPS's or ARPG's.

You don't get out much, I'm one such person, I only play MMORPG's and only one at a time. I haven't played anything but EVE in almost a year now.  A number of my friends are just like me, play MMO's exclusively, we are found in DAOC, ESO or EVE most recently.

That said, no can make a living catering a site totally to my tastes, at least not in this day and age.

 

I don't see how that refutes what he said. You're in the extreme minority, Ky, and those were his exact words. 

hallucigenocide

i'm not really interested in anything other than mmo's either it's why i came here.. but the way things are going atm it would probably be pretty quiet here if they didn't cover other stuff as well.

mgilbrtsn

Gonna be hard to find them I think.  With the lines getting fuzzier all the time in what constitutes an MMO.

Kazuhiro

In simple terms, no, at least not that I've ever heard of. Some websites "used" to be mmo-only news sites, but as mmos have slowly declined over the past several years, these sites have started having to branch out to other genres in order to find enough stuff to report.

I say this as someone who would "also" like a mmo-only news site, one devoid of those crap MOBA games I hate so much.

Kyleran

Originally posted by Loktofeit

Originally posted by Kyleran

Originally posted by azzamasin

Originally posted by Culubu

Originally posted by Kyleran
Ask yourself this...are most MMO players only interested in playing MMOs?

I am.

Anyway, there's massivelyop.com and sometimes I browse reddit's mmo sub.

You're in the extreme minority and as such you pay the price commercially for your narrow likes.  I don't know of anyone that I play games with who are Genre specific.  Even my die hard MOBA friends are into FPS's or ARPG's.

You don't get out much, I'm one such person, I only play MMORPG's and only one at a time. I haven't played anything but EVE in almost a year now.  A number of my friends are just like me, play MMO's exclusively, we are found in DAOC, ESO or EVE most recently.

That said, no can make a living catering a site totally to my tastes, at least not in this day and age.

 

I don't see how that refutes what he said. You're in the extreme minority, Ky, and those were his exact words. 

I was refuting the high lighted statement...just because he doesn't know anyone like me doesn't mean we don't exist, and strangely enough, I know 7 or 8 like me.....

craftseeker

Originally posted by Torval

Originally posted by Kyleran

Originally posted by Loktofeit

Originally posted by Kyleran

Originally posted by azzamasin

Originally posted by Culubu

Originally posted by Kyleran
Ask yourself this...are most MMO players only interested in playing MMOs?

I am.

Anyway, there's massivelyop.com and sometimes I browse reddit's mmo sub.

You're in the extreme minority and as such you pay the price commercially for your narrow likes.  I don't know of anyone that I play games with who are Genre specific.  Even my die hard MOBA friends are into FPS's or ARPG's.

You don't get out much, I'm one such person, I only play MMORPG's and only one at a time. I haven't played anything but EVE in almost a year now.  A number of my friends are just like me, play MMO's exclusively, we are found in DAOC, ESO or EVE most recently.

That said, no can make a living catering a site totally to my tastes, at least not in this day and age.

I don't see how that refutes what he said. You're in the extreme minority, Ky, and those were his exact words. 

I was refuting the high lighted statement...just because he doesn't know anyone like me doesn't mean we don't exist, and strangely enough, I know 7 or 8 like me.....

Good grief. He didn't say people like you don't exist. In his first sentence he acknowledges your very existence and then claims you are in a tiny minority. In his social circle he says there is no one that plays like that. In my circle of gamers I know several mmo players, but no one that exclusively plays mmos. I'm not saying they're not out there. It does lead me to think that that demographic is pretty small.

That is why I think mmo only sites will go the way of the dodo. All of the sites mentioned in this thread aren't mmo only, or are by the loosest and most broad definition that purists would, I think, find objectionable. It makes more sense for a site to have a broad select of games and let the users filter based on their preferences.

While I find it difficult to understand how those of you stating that those of us who want to play MMORPGs only are a 'tiny minority' or a 'pretty small' 'demographic' get your numbers.  My guess you are just making a wild ass guess about what the numbers are.

 

However,  a site dedicating itself to news an comment about MMORPGs only would have very little to wright about at the moment.  That is the real problem how could anyone generate enough clicks with so little content?

Antiquated

Originally posted by Sovrath

I personally like an mmo site that adds info/news from other games I'm interested in.

And wouldn't it be cool if you didn't have to read ads from games you wouldn't touch with a two million foot pole?

It sounds a lot like some folks are seeking targeted news delivery, selectively filtered.

A Pandora-like engine, or something on the close order of Amazon's or Google's targeted advertising might do the job. "Show me more titles like this game but not like this one."

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Would most users of this site, after selectively filtering out all the games they don't want to see or hear discussed, end up with a single title (from 2000 or earlier?)

Could we still call that "MMO News", by any stretch of the imagination?

Wouldn't it be more efficient to read the single twitter hashtag?

MissAdventure

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Culubu

Originally posted by Sovrath

Originally posted by Culubu

Originally posted by Kyleran
Ask yourself this...are most MMO players only interested in playing MMOs?

I am.

Anyway, there's massivelyop.com and sometimes I browse reddit's mmo sub.

massivelyop.com is not an mmo only site.

 

 

It's alright. Wanted to contribute and not letting this thread become some petty argument thread, but nvm.

No one is making it a "petty argument" thread.

He asked for an mmo only site. Problem is that there aren't really any that I have come across. And I've looked as I wanted to see what other mmo sites were out there.

In any case, the OP would then go to Massively only to find it has "other games" as well.

Having said that this site is supposed to be releasing a new design that is better with the segregation of these games. However, I strongly suspect that, other than the reddit site you mentioned, there aren't going to be a lot of "mmo only sites" going forward unless it's a private site that doesn't rely upon ad revenue.

It always becomes a petty argument thread here.  In fact, it's usually by the same 6-8 people.  Take this thread for example, and see how it has devolved.  It's a real deterrent to people who want to contribute, but don't want to wade into the muck.

 

To the OP:  MassivelyOP has more consistent MMO news.  I use it daily as a reliable source of info.

Azaron_Nightblade

Originally posted by MissAdventure

It always becomes a petty argument thread here.

Of course it does when the OP is passive aggressive whining about how he'll take his business elsewhere, because the people who run the site have moved away from catering 100% to what he wants. (He sugar coated it, but it's basically what he's saying)