Here at MMO Fallout, the articles usually come from one of two sources:
- News/Game websites: This is, obviously, where the news items come from. I have quite a large host of websites I get the news from, including news websites and the websites of the games themselves. This is the source I generally use when an article is more informative than persuasive, although I will add my own thoughts in if applicable (server closures, shutdowns, etc). Since most of these websites take weekends off, you’re much more likely to see opinion articles on weekends (news doesn’t happen on weekends, at least not on the internet).
- Blogs/Chat/Forums: My second source comes from random blogs, discussions I have in chat, and forums I read, that inspire me to discuss pertinent issues. I try to keep my articles unique based on those that I see from other blogs (Which is why you haven’t seen a “Alganon: Clone of WoW?” article here). I decided to not do a “best of 2009”, instead opting for my own questions of 2009 and hopes for the future, as well as a little roundup of drama over the year.
Where MMO Fallout truly thrives, and where my own message for this blog exists, is in talking to the players. If there is an MMO argument/debate going on in a game, you can probably bet that I am part of it in some fashion. By argument/debate, I mean an actual human conversation, not “this game sucks” or “that game is better”, although I will throw around sarcastic remarks as if I’m paid to do it.
I have been “found” a few times in the MMOs I play, as my username is virtually always Omali, or some variation of it (Omali, Jomali, and Katanda are the three most likely). The people I have talked to are very engaging, and regularly do I end up penning an article for MMO Fallout based on our discussion, however related to the actual content it is. I can find out only so much by the first option in my list of sources, many of my longest standing articles have been penned up thanks to my discussion with players (including the current NCsoft scandal. Thanks to select players, I began covering the story long before most other MMO websites picked up.
So what’s on your mind, viewers of MMO Fallout? Any questions on your mind that don’t fit into other articles? Think of this as a place to just get everything off of your chest.
I’ve been sitting on this article for a while now, and it seems like the best time as ever to put it forward. NCsoft is currently investigating heavy allegations of massive security holes in the master account system. As I’ve reported before, the number of stolen Guild Wars and Aion accounts has gone up dramatically in the past few months, which NC originally pointed towards a compromised fansite as the source of the theft.
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