- I never want to do a single-game blog again
I've never played any game continuously for more than about thirteen months. If you exclude World of Warcraft the time falls to six months. So a single-game blog is not really a long term solution for me.
Of course, I never intended it to last forever -- I was going to blog for a year and see how that played out. Instead I only made it about four months, right about the time I got tired of Warhammer.
While I don't wish to do a single-game blog again, I do think it was a good start. There was a loose-knit community and everybody was very supportive and I appreciated that. - I never want to do a solo blog again
There are at least a dozen reasons why I'd rather do a group blog than another solo blog. The big ones are content (I want new content on a blog every day, but I don't want to write new content on a blog every day), feedback (be nice to have a small group of people that you can chat with), web design (I am awful at it, let others to handle this), cooperation (i.e. I force them to play multiplayer game demos with me), and podcasts (again, I would force the others to do them with me). - I'm at a loss to explain why I don't like WAR
If you remember my four months of blogging (so long ago) you may remember that time and again I talked about how great the design of WAR is, and how it compared so favorably to WoW. And yet --
and yet I haven't logged into WAR in two months even though I have a six-month subscription. On the other hand I get a WoW craving about once a week (which I have yet to act upon).
I think achieving things in WoW meant something to me, and I never really connected with WAR in that way. I do sympathize more with the UO hounds who are still playing, eleven years after release (nine years after it became irrelevant).
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Wow, I was a bit surprised to see you pop up in my feed reader today! I had figured you were gone for good... and apparently, you are! :(
Well, the plan is that I am, indeed, "back". This was more of a farewell to blogging about WAR. And to express my desire to quit blogging here and find a better, groupier blog.
For now I'm just going to pretend that my obviously warhammer-themed blog is indeed a general gaming blog.
It is good to see you back, Boat. I hope you find a good home for group blogging.
I'm also at a loss to describe why WAR didn't click with me long-term; there's quite a bit about it that I thought was outstanding. I'm attributing it to MMO burnout in general. For the first time in ten years of playing MMO's, I haven't quit one game to move to another game. I'm just playing single-player games, and Team Fortress 2.
I'm relieved that I don't feel the WoW itch any more. I'm subscribed to the latest expansion because my daughter likes to play, but I haven't logged in once on my own. I think it's total MMO flameout over here.
If you do move somewhere else to blog, make sure you post here so I can update my RSS reader!
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