Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
Should sites give coverage to games like CoE and DreamWorld?
MightyUnclean
Member EpicPosts: 3,531
Should gaming news sites give coverage to extremely suspect games like Chronicles of Elyria and DreamWorld, the integrity of which a reasonable person would question? Is it their responsibility to be totally impartial and report the news, or should they make a judgement call and not give publicity to these types of games, with the possibility that the publicity may result in more unsuspecting backers being taken advantage of? Is it the sites' responsibility to include a disclaimer explaining these games' questionable past or future? What do you guys think?
Comments
Vault-Tec analysts have concluded that the odds of worldwide nuclear armaggeddon this decade are 17,143,762... to 1.
If a KS is unwilling to do an interview with a major site in the genre like MMORPG.com or Massively... move along, scam.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
As I see it, the real question is how they cover it. For something like DreamWorld that looks like a blatant scam, it should be prominently pointed out early in the article that it sure looks like a probable scam.
For something like Chronicles of Elyria, it's not an obvious failure unless you know the history, so any article that covers it should briefly recount that history. For example:
"Chronicles of Elyria, the crowdfunded MMORPG that ran out of money and laid off all of its developers, has announced a new roadmap of promised features. They can't point to any sources of new funding, but are claiming to restart development after being sued by backers for shutting down without delivering a game. Here's their new roadmap."
And make several phrases of that links to previous articles. That way, the site gets the clicks for covering the articles, but doesn't do a disservice to any readers by leading them to throw money at an obviously doomed project.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
As a Gaming News Agency/Platform, ideally they should cover these games and what is going on as it is going on, because that is part of what they are all about, as long as their articles are not thinly veiled adverts for the games in question, and keep the reports honest about what is going on.
Directly passing along a PR article... that's just giving free advertising
All time classic MY NEW FAVORITE POST! (Keep laying those bricks)
"I should point out that no other company has shipped out a beta on a disc before this." - Official Mortal Online Lead Community Moderator
Proudly wearing the Harbinger badge since Dec 23, 2017.
Coined the phrase "Role-Playing a Development Team" January 2018
"Oddly Slap is the main reason I stay in these forums." - Mystichaze April 9th 2018
1 Most certainly,a gaming site should cover gaming as a whole.
2. Now here comes the gray area.WHY is the site covering said game?This is very important,you should be able to decipher the reasons and why it affects gaming without me always spelling it out.
3 It is easy for us to judge not being in the very position of making choice decisions.Like i would love to think i could easily tell any game to take a hike but we all have a soft side and a business side.
4 Homework,did the site do any homework at all on the game or was there an agenda in place.
5 This part leads right back to "homework".Does the game border on illegal or lying to consumers?Another example in the same realm,posting numbers without knowing if they are actually legit numbers but just posting them because they were told.
6 Is the article actually the sites or did it have to be accepted by the developer before posting it.Is it even the sites article or is it done by a third party like a marketing branch,a publisher or a studio rep.
Basically you can sum it all up into two parts,is there an agenda behind the article or is it a legit article on a game the site feels should be discussed?
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
A gamer I met not very long ago confessed he tried a game with strong P2W monetization and dropped $8K in two weeks on his credit card which he could not afford.
Gaming is full of stories of obsessive compulsive behaviors, but of course is only one small activity where many people have shown the inability to control themselves.
While it often grates our sensibilities when said, sometimes rules / regulations need to be put in place to protect people from harming themselves (or others) for the good of society as a whole.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Good PR people often write up press releases in the style of a news story. The goal is to tempt lazy reporters to just post it as is rather than rewriting it. If you've got something newsworthy to announce, a good press release can often be mostly factual with a fairly positive spin, but not such an overwhelming bias as to make reporters embarrassed to just post it without modification.
Right, but he also didn't like posters continually bad mouthing certain games here either, hence why they made a forum for SWG vets separate from the main forum.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
Do you think that sanitizing the news is this site's job? Their job is to simply report and if they want to include their opinion they may but that is optional.
The main reason the threads on the news get so much attention is because you all cannot stay quiet and leave the damn report alone. Everyone must have a go and the views and posts accumulate and the piece of news that could have been buried will stay on top. It begs the question why do you all have to continuously bump those threads.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
I believe the quote I enjoy the most in situations like this is:
"It's easier to fool someone, then convince them they have been fooled"
-Attributed to Mark Twain.
Couple that with
"A fool and their money are easily parted"
-Thomas Tusser
and toss in "a Sucker Born every Minuit" for good measure.
-P.T. Barnum.
and it really paints a painful picture of what really is really going down.
This isn't a signature, you just think it is.
My point... they don't just announce a new part... they follow up and do a rigorous review of it.
So, if they(MMORPG.COM) just report XYZ announced a Kickstarter for an MMO... as if it was just a press release... ON THEIR SITE... sorry, this is wrong.
Tom's Hardware, for their site members... they would do a full journalistic deep dive follow up.
I have a feeling MMORPG.COM is on maintenance mode. They couldn't put in the article "We reached out to the company for comment."
Maybe because they didn't, darn... this is really really sad. Not a call, email?