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Dominating the PC Charts in May, OW Generates $269M
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For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
But I think that reflects the blurring of once brighter lines between games, game systems and game sectors in the industry.
Also, a game can be relevant for more than one reason. For example, Blizzard's success with Overwatch is going to have an effect on future games Blizzard makes, and games that other mmorpg game makers make. So while OW is not in my opinion a mmorpg, it will certainly impact some quarters of the mmorpg industry.
Regardless, we're all friends here no?
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If you actually read my posts, you'd see.. I said cover it all they want, but if they're going to, they should include other games of it's type in that coverage, not just one special snowflake.
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Do you have something related to the source of that or are you just stating and opinion?
And the site has a lot of users, i seriously doubt they all just want Rpg's,
They started by covering Rpg's, has it grows it starts covering more things, that's just how it works in every " news " kinda of thing
There is this alpha key giveaway thrown at us with no further background or info on the game.
Looks like NCSoft has a hot iron at hand there.
And I can understand blueturtle13's sentiment, too.
I don't mind news features focused on female gamers, I think there should be more.. And while I don't believe Suzie did it on purpose, the feature about an Overwatch female gamer owning some folks did stick out when I was browsing as a "huh, that's kind of reaching for Overwatch news" due specifically to an overall lack of features highlighting our better gaming halves on the site (which, @SBFord, if that was the beginning of an intended general trend, I'm all for it!) and unfortunate timing. The subject also seemed less than specific to the game itself (I've been owned by ladies in competitive games more times than I can count). Without those qualities in tandem, the feature wouldn't have struck me as reaching.
Personally I won't criticize anything they post, as I don't take any time out of my day to search out gaming news; I get it all here. Blueturtle13 does take the time and finds lots of interesting nuggets of info I enjoy being informed about, so I see where he's coming from and why he offered the opinion.
Ideally, the site would focus exclusively on RPGs. If Bill and the gang expand that coverage to increase traffic, I get it. The confluence of unfortunate (and hopefully unintentional) factors contributed to blueturtle13 and others chiming in. Let's all learn a little about one another from it and hopefully move forward with more informed understandings.
If they want to become the next IGN, that's fine, I like the staff here more anyway. There are plenty of other things they can cover, if they need the extra clicks.There are so many big general gaming announcements, especially as far as shooters and action games are concerned.. they're simply more popular than RPGs as well as MMOs.
In the end, there's a line or there's no line. They're either a general news site or a specialty site.
If there's anything I'd be annoyed about in this, it's defending them on this issue prior, many times... as I opened my response with, for me personally this is the first time I can remember not defending them on such things.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
But then i realized that chart is only digital sales and i stopped caring.
Agreed about Blops dropping outta the number one spot, as the Call of Duty franchise has started to feel more and more like the kind of yearly cash-in EA Sports games have become.
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To me it just looks like some of the recently posted news about Overwatch aren't posted for the "news" of it, but because it's Overwatch and because Suzie is a huge fan of Blizzard. I doubt we'd see the same news if that cheater-story happened in say Battlefield. And this thread is another example.
For my taste this is a bit too much coverage on the same game, happening on about a daily basis. So i post about it. Not that i would expect my opinion to change anything, because i also see their stance here... but anyway.
If you'd go some time back on my post history, you'd find me doing the very same when we had almost daily "news" on Trove -or anything Trion for that matter- that due to overall lack of interest many times didn't even got more than 3 comments on them, giveaways all the time and a Scott Hartsman "interview" about every two weeks - i literally had to block his picture in my browser because it was constantly being displayed for weeks in that news reel frame on the mainpage.
Going back ~10 years, i did the same when Funcom temporarily took over this page and we had AoC news and not-so-news constantly clogging up the mainpage for weeks. You couldn't click two pixels without hitting an "interview" of Godager or Ellingson.
So this is not about hate, but just an opinion. After almost a decade on this page i grew out of "hating" such thing as a video game.
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I do appreciate that they're one of the very few sources of precious sales information in the industry, but well... I'd really like to hear someone working for them publicly explain (or at least reach out to you guys who run gaming news sites) how they make their decisions in regards to what's what when they release this information.
even so, i come here to get news across all boards because i know it will be reported and i generally like the community and articles here.
so, to the people who are weary about overwatch, simply don't read them... plenty of other stuff going on too.