Love Games? Like Free Stuff? If So, GameSpace Needs YOU! - MMORPG.com News

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Love Games? Like Free Stuff? If So, GameSpace Needs YOU! - MMORPG.com News

GameSpace is a growing hobby site and is part of the MMORPG.com family. We're looking for fans of games other than MMOs to give us a hand with reviews, editorials, previews and more. In exchange, you get your words published on a growing multi-platform gaming web site as well as all the free games you can handle. We are looking for people who are enthusiastic about their PS4 / XB1 / Switch / Mobile / PC / Mac and every other platform imaginable.

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TheHiveLeader

Time to put your writing skillZ where your mouth is folks.

EDIT - Fixed error to the correct "Z". It's always gotta be a Z.

SBFord

Torval said:

I love that site. I've looked through some of the functionality framework and there are some cool possibilities with curated groups and communities. I'm not sure if it's all working or not yet, but the idea that your favorite game can have a group that shares stuff is awesome. I hope it takes off.

That's all stuff down the road that we want for sure. We need to get some functionality added, though we'll be shifting to a new template at some point. In the meantime, building readership will help!

Azaron_Nightblade

TheHiveLeader said:

Time to put your writing skillZ where your mouth is folks.

EDIT - Fixed error to the correct "Z". It's always gotta be a Z.

No SkillZ here, but I'll visit the site more frequently!

knightaudit

Hummmm .. May have to drop an E mail out there and see what may be involved in all this .. If my Idol of the Hiveleader (And I have the fan T Shirt to prove it) Maybe I should give it a shot .. Throw my aged wisdom into the mix?

SBFord

It seems we're getting a bounce back error with the contact@gamespace.com -- I've asked Bill for an alternative contact email. In the meantime, you can post in this thread with @BillMurphy tagged.

Dynivesx

@BillMurphy Just came here trying to find out why I got a bounce back, but have an email ready to go out to a new address.

SBFord

Dynivesx said:

@BillMurphy Just came here trying to find out why I got a bounce back, but have an email ready to go out to a new address.

You can also send an email to billmurphy@mmorpg.com

BillMurphy

Not sure what's up with the contact email. In the meantime use my email here: billmurphy@mmorpg.com!

SBFord

I fixed it: CONTENT@GAMESPACE.COM -- got the word from admins that this is the best to use!

BillMurphy

Oh, and content@gamespace.com works too

LackingMMO

Would be cool to do something like this. Id love to give my 2 cents about a game here and there but I always lack to confidence to actually go and write a long thought out review. GL to whoever ends up doing it!

Forgrimm

DMKano said:

Gonna get a lot of hate for this - but IMO why not focus all the energy on MMORPG.COM and bring this site up to modern standards - get all the features you want there, here.

All the stuff on gamespace could be a subset of mmorpg.com site and this site already gets way more traffic than gamespace

Agreed. I mentioned basically the same thing recently http://forums.mmorpg.com/discussion/comment/7202614/#Comment_7202614

SBFord

DMKano said:

Gonna get a lot of hate for this - but IMO why not focus all the energy on MMORPG.COM and bring this site up to modern standards - get all the features you want there, here.

All the stuff on gamespace could be a subset of mmorpg.com site and this site already gets way more traffic than gamespace

Why on earth do you think you'll "get a lot of hate"? Do you think it's something that all of us on staff and all of our readers haven't considered? LOL -- think again!
 
That's part of the plan too and nearly ALL energy is spent on working to prepare for it. You have to understand that it's a Herculean task, one that has actually failed twice in recent memory and with a lot of shit flinging and mockery as a result. A project of this caliber and size is not like flipping a switch and bringing 15 years of content into Word Press. Would that it was so easy. It's a large task for a small team. If you think you're saying something we don't all wish, you're dreaming.

In the meantime, we're modernizing what we can here and working there to give people opportunities to have their voices heard about other games that don't fall into the general categories here. We all love games and sometimes the "off topic" things that are posted here get lost in the noise. Being able to post there with a feed link here and various social media outreach support from MMO is a good start.

At some point in the whatever distance, perhaps the two will be blended together. That time is not today or any time in the immediate future.

Sovrath

I dropped you guys a note ...!

Tiller

How come MMORPG.com never does any live shows or interviews at say the game events like back in the day? I remember Hillary "Pokket" Nicole used to do them for this site as well as a few others, but over the years it's gone away.

Mostly now it's just a few random "let's play" or "reviews". Might help the new site if there are some folks who are able to gain press access to bring us the latest news as it happens; in the future. I really hate IGN and their band of nobodies who think they are funny and would rather get game news from you folks.

BillMurphy

@tiller - That all costs money and bandwidth we simply don't have right now.

Got a load of replies! Will be sifting through them later tonight.

BillMurphy

Torval said:

Do you have an overview of standards and requirements, style rules, and that sort of information?

We are not so strict. Shoot me an email, and I'll explain.

Jonnyp2

I just want to see wizardry on the staff.

BillMurphy

Got a nice load of emails! I'm headed to bed, but expect replies tomorrow. Also, eyes on GameSpace.com for our Agents of Mayhem review in roughly 5 hours.

Gdemami

I never understood why you (supposedly) pay your columnists....just pick up one of those lenghty posts/rants written by random poster and place a column tag on it, you won't tell the difference.

Wraithone

HiveLeader, we've seen examples of your "Mad Skillz"... "Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!..." ^^

Grend

Sounds interesting and fun but fortunately I wish I had the time.

Metrobo

I'm definitely interested and just got done sending an email. I've done volunteer writing for mmosite, and was interested in doing it again. I love video games and had fun sharing my opinion and hearing others opinions.

TheHiveLeader

Wraithone said:

HiveLeader, we've seen examples of your "Mad Skillz"... "Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!..." ^^

Oh I never said I had skillZ :-) I'm just dumb enough to still put things out there for public consumption.

Sovrath

Ok ...

@BillMurphy

There, I've said it.