WoW.com posts coming to Massively
by Elizabeth Harper 
on Jul 2nd 2009 4:00PM
World of Warcraft, Massively Meta
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Reader Comments (39)
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:06PM AlamoeJones said
I feel like Massively already adequately covers any WoW news, so I don't really see the need for this. If you care enough to get all the Warcraft news that is happening you are probably already reading WoW.com (I for one am) or you could easily start; clicking a link from this page is not that tough.
Posted: Jul 4th 2009 1:24AM (Unverified) said
We're not planning on increasing WoW coverage -- just changing the source of it. It would be silly for Massively to have as much WoW coverage as WoW.com does, but there's the occasional larger bit of news that's of interest to the MMO community as a whole. That's what we're interested in integrating.
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Posted: Jul 4th 2009 10:31AM AlamoeJones said
If that is the case it sounds like a good idea. Just so long as the stories you pull aren't of the stupid 'WoW Movie Watch' or 'One Boss Enters' variety. I don't feel like those contribute a whole lot to my enjoyment of WoW.
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Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:08PM Keen and Graev said
Makes sense and, even though I don't play WoW, I'll enjoy reading those WoW posts here.
It's kinda funny, and sad, though that people always have to apologize for the WoW community - even on their own sites. ;)
It's kinda funny, and sad, though that people always have to apologize for the WoW community - even on their own sites. ;)
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:18PM Crsh said
I feel Massively doesn't need to cover WoW at all (save for the "this week on WoW.com" type of posts) since it has it's own domain; I've always come to Massively to hear about other MMOs that are usually overshadowed by WoW's rather huge presence. Let's hope it doesn't change.
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:18PM ultimateq said
As long as it doesn't get out of hand. If I really cared about WoW news I would be going to wow.com.
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:19PM Nottom said
If I wanted to read WoW news I would go to WoW.com.
I appreciate the fact that there is only slight WoW coverage on Massively.
If every other post I see here is WoW related, you're losing this set of eyeballs. (hear that advertisers???)
I appreciate the fact that there is only slight WoW coverage on Massively.
If every other post I see here is WoW related, you're losing this set of eyeballs. (hear that advertisers???)
Posted: Jul 4th 2009 1:15AM (Unverified) said
No worries, this will definitely not be every other post. Just the occasional bit of bigger news.
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Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:20PM (Unverified) said
So are you going to have a feed that filters them out for your RSS readers? Being already subscribed to WoW.com's RSS it will be just redundant feeds I'll have to scan through.
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 5:28PM chrisgrant said
Absolutely – for example, a WoW.com reader who also reads Massively via RSS wouldn't want the duplication.
Tim: Despite what your cynical predisposition might have you believing, it's not always about the pageviews. Our mandate for Massively: be the best MMO blog on the planet. Sharing WoW content with WoW.com is one step towards that goal. If being the best means earning pageviews, well ... then, the business model works.
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Tim: Despite what your cynical predisposition might have you believing, it's not always about the pageviews. Our mandate for Massively: be the best MMO blog on the planet. Sharing WoW content with WoW.com is one step towards that goal. If being the best means earning pageviews, well ... then, the business model works.
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 7:20PM Crsh said
Chris, you say that as if Massively and WoW.com aren't sister sites belonging to the same organization; there's really little logic in duplicating content the way you announced it, else than to increase page views for announcers. I don't say this to be cynical, let's just be forward about it.
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Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 11:04PM Keen and Graev said
@Christopher Grant: More blog in this blog then, imo. Right now this is a decent news site to find a lot of MMO news all in one place, but it lacks a certain level of originality and personal content.
In a way, pasting news from another site just serves to reinforce what a lot of people here are saying even if it would improve the coverage of this site.
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In a way, pasting news from another site just serves to reinforce what a lot of people here are saying even if it would improve the coverage of this site.
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:22PM TheJackman said
Sadly WoW is also still the only MMO that I every play more them a month and record holder for my longest played game now 3 years and 4 months!
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:25PM (Unverified) said
Blegh... I'll reserve judgement until I see how over-covered it is.
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:51PM (Unverified) said
Maybe this will help dilute the absolute deluge of EVE posts that we're fed here. :P
Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 5:00PM mko said
How about a filter like ds/wii filter on nintendo joystiq.
I really don't care for more news from WoW
I really don't care for more news from WoW
Posted: Jul 3rd 2009 12:04PM (Unverified) said
This please. I come here to read about MMOs I don't know much about. I know more about WoW than I care to.
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