How to properly expose poorly managed MMO's

Zerex

Greeting everyone,

I currently play a few MMO's and have been a playing MMO's for over the past 9 years now. The most common issue I see with these companies are Poorly managed companies. Is there an company out there now that exposes these companies for what they really are?

 

Or this there any reporters out there who thrive on exposing these companies.

 

I don't know about you guys and ladys but I am tired of jumping from MMO to MMO in search of the best MMO to play and enjoy my time on. I am tired of companies with thier lame excuses as to why is and that is and is not happening. Last time I checked we(the gamer) are thier customers. We pay their paychecks.  We keep them from being on the employment lines.

 

Also, whenever I see reporters talking to Ceo's of some of these companies it seems like they don't want to dig deep into the interview. They only have about a half of page to report and usually it's a Junky interview. I am more interested in a smash mouth interview with these companies to see what they really have to say. Always doging the question with another question.

I have many idea's for an interview and YES it's clean but it will get down in the dirt to get us ( the gamer) the answers we are looking for.

Grunty

All the investigative reporters are investigating the addicted, prone to violence, malnourished, majority of players of computer games. There's already lots of self provided imagery of those people that video reporting doesn't even have to post images of them. That's a whole lot better for advertising revenue than showing another corporate talking head blathering on about customer service.

Wizardry

Probably like other real life reporting,they have to disclose a form that lsits the questions they are going to ask,so they never ask  tough questions or they probably will get turned down from an interview.Also MOST of these people work for gaming sites,gaming sites make money predominantly from game advertisers,so again ,do not expect any real deep questionnaires.

So it is up to us the people that actually pay all their bills through the advertising to step up and expose the devs for what they are really trying to accomplish .

For the most part it is simple,they are in it to make money,that is 100% on top of the list,then from there they are either into developing a real complex heart felt game,or just something they can get to market as fast as possible or somethign that meets their investors criteria.

I have yet to see one site or person i believe is 100% unbiased,not that i need their opinions, i can draw my own conclusions with proably a lot more accuracy,since most of these people don't really know what goes into making these games.

Axehilt

There is such an incredibly small amount of interest in the small-fry companies you'd be investigating (and such an obvious "Oh wow, people are actually buying into these clearly-terrible games!?" reaction) that finding a reporter interested in covering it -- and simultaneously skilled enough to manuever into an interview -- might be impossible.

Best just to ignore these companies, research your future games better, and let them die of natural causes.