World of Warcraft bloggers fight back against RIFT

@Joshua Przygocki

With respect, it's not about competition (albeit I agree that TOR is gonna rock and I am SUPER hyped for it!!!).

What it's about is WOW blogs sick of the RIFT SPAM. Commenting on another MMO to compare/contrast a WOW mechanic is one thing, but what these RIFTers are doing is somewhere between unsolicited testimonials to outright cyber graffiti.

That kind of nonsense gets old, FAST. I don't begrudge another game's success yet at the same time, I would expect those games fans to respect me keeping my blog on-topic.

@Matix If you ask me i say get over it.

Every other game has had to deal with nonstop WoW comparisons, WoW bloggers get a small taste of this for once.

Dunno how long it will last but its nice for once to see the shoe on the other foot.

@Joshua Przygocki

It's about time WoW had some comeuppance. As someone who tried WoW out from the start and never could get into in the least bit, I've had to deal with WoW being brought up in virtually every conversation, during every new game launch etc etc.

Boo-hoo @ WoW... welcome to the other side of the track for once.


One can only imagine what games like Tera, TOR and GW2 will do.

@notinterested

Comparisons are fine. I even defended it, if you read my comment.

I simply support keeping blogs on-topic. To quote Zinn on his blog (following the links in the article) he put it succinctly: "People can (and should) do whatever they like with their blogs." If I want a WOW blog, I should be able to keep it that way without digital vagrants cluttering my blog.

@Matix I'm not looking forward to TOR. I think it is too overhyped. I'm also not saying that TOR is gonna kill WoW. I'm saying there will be so much more TOR news because of the position it is in.

@Joshua Przygocki

OK, I gotcha.

Still, even if I was into SWTOR and hyped up about it after launch, I wouldn't go to WOW blogs and put what amounted to "Play SWTOR Today!" ad-posts all over it.

I try to respect the topic of blogs, and I agree with the right of the blog's owner to keep matters on-topic.

@Joshua Przygocki


You're right man. Those poor guys won't be able to handle it. They'll be like the one guy moving the wrong way in a crowd of Star Wars fanboys =P
Honestly, I think this whole "ban Rift posts" reeks of immaturity. The game just came out. Of COURSE people are going to be talking about it.

@Integral
"reeks of immaturity"
Isn't that the name of the game for that crowd though.

@Integral

And there are plenty of appropriate, Rift-related places to talk about it.

If you think keeping a blog on topic is immature, I seriously question your definition of maturity.

@Integral You know, I WOULDN'T be surprised if they were truly worried about the stability of WoW. I've seen some hard-core WoW fanboys try Rift just to reassure themselves that it's crap and WoW is the MMO of the gods. They now have 50s and are working on their Tier 2 expert dungeons.

@jslim419 You don't seem to understand how advertising on the web works. Usually, the advertising company (most likely google) will post ads on the website based on its topic (Cooking website would have restaurant ads, sports website would have equipment ads, etc.)

WoW is not just WoW, it is an MMO. There are ads for it on other MMO websites, and also ads for other MMOs. A lot of fan run websites, and some blogs(wow.com is run by AOL and does not have direct control over the advertisements displayed) will use an advertisement trading program in which the company will scatter ads for their website across others in exchange for access to advertising on their website. Unless it is a major website like Yahoo or Facebook, the site admins usually won't have direct control over the advertisements.

@Joshua Przygocki TOR?
lol?
GW2 is gonna chew it up, then spit it out. same with WoW

@notinterested

"Every other game has had to deal with nonstop WoW comparisons, WoW bloggers get a small taste of this for once."

My thoughts exactly. 5+ years of non-stop comparisons!

@Alph

So in other words, because you're bitter about not getting into it like everyone else, you want WoW bloggers to suffer.

Look, I'm fine with RIFT taking away some of the attention from WoW. But honestly, seeing all of these RIFT-related post on blogs/forums that are very clearly about WoW, it's getting old.

Yes, you have to deal with all of the stuff about WoW, but guess what? Deal with it... As a WoW player I have to "deal with" all of the stuff about other games, and I'm fine with it.

@Apakal
You're right, and since WoW has an entire Joystick site devoted to it, how about we keep all WoW related crap there.

@Beau Hindman Not everyone has the money or time, so no.

@Beau Hindman Nice call, personally i couldnt play both WoW and Rift. I mean if i want to play another WoW game theres literally thousands of free ones just like it. :p

@Beau Hindman It's more than just "playing more than one game", it's spending $15 a month each on two games that are pretty similar in a lot of ways. I can see how someone might not feel like that's worth it.