Although I regularly bring up my disdain for writing about rumors here on MMO Fallout, I regularly report on MMOs that fall within the levels of not completely confirmed, but at the same time not confirmed to be false either. Although I intended the Upcoming category to be used for MMOs that are in development, eventually it got to the point where there are so many titles flying in and out of each state: Rumor, confirmed, not confirmed, confirmed, still a rumor, not going to happen, and back again.
So I created a new category to deal with those MMOs that aren’t quite confirmed, the Rumor Mill. Rumor Mill games fit under one of the following categories:
- Confirmed, but unnamed: Blizzard’s MMO is an example of this. We know Blizzard is working on an MMO, but we have no name and no other information. When Blizzard names this title, it will find its place in the Upcoming category.
- Unconfirmed: MMO ideas rise and fall like flies, every 24 hours. The prospect of a Harry Potter MMO was born and died practically overnight, not to mention a Halo MMO, and other ideas. This is the main meat of the Rumor Mill, titles that have been hinted at but not officially confirmed.
- Uncertain Of Release: If an MMO’s release is in question, I will also place it in the Rumor Mill. Naturally, the Fallout MMO and Stargate Worlds qualified for this category. This is one of the rarer cases, and if a title is confirmed to not be coming out, the category will simply be deleted, rather than moved over to defunct.
I have received a few emails, both joking and serious, calling the way I treat categories “elitist,” but in all honesty it is simply to keep the website organized. There are slightly over 40 games with their own category, and as cluttered as the “live” section is, will be growing over time, and yet I still don’t hold a candle to mmorpg.com, that follows every MMO and currently has over 400 titles listed.
So in order to remove the strain from the “live” section, I set up a new category to move the more popular titles over to. Hot Titles is where you’ll find the most discussed games on MMO Fallout. Not necessarily the most popular player-wise, but that have the most news coverage. For example, Age of Conan is actually the hottest topic on MMO Fallout, although “Age of Conan nude” comes under less than 1% of those search terms.
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