Time to feel old.
Those of you who read this website are probably somewhat familiar with me not being a big champion of anniversary posts, it’s just a personal preference. But considering the timeline I’m going to go ahead and write about MMO Fallout turning 15 years old, and my first post on July 22, 2009. Because of course I’m a day late to my own birthday party.
Nothing makes you feel old quite like turning to your coworker at your day job and realizing that when you started your website that she was five years old, and that when you started blogging on the internet she wouldn’t have been born for another two years.
But MMO Fallout has been with it through the thick and the thin and after fifteen years I will say I’m really glad this website never took off. I get the kind of traffic MassivelyOP and MMORPG.com wouldn’t wipe their asses with, but there’s an alternate timeline where MMO Fallout blew up and my Patreon is at like $5k a month and this is my job and I’m probably miserable in that timeline assuming I haven’t quit writing altogether.
And I have nothing but love and respect for my fellow MMO news people, but I do read your Twitter feeds. And your comments sections. And if existing in relative obscurity is what it costs to not have every comment and opinion I make (and don’t make) get me scrutinized as a paid shill, paid opposition, an incompetent asshole, etc, I’ll be here in the corner with my tiny group of readers enjoying the positivity.
Normally in articles like this the writer would end by talking about the cool things they’ve got planned for the future. And I’m not going to do that, because you all know what happens when I talk about plans. But like me or not I’m here to stay for the foreseeable future and I’m going to keep doing what I do and doing it for me and you’re all welcome to join me.
Because I do love my readers.
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