Hi, I hope this is not against the rules. If it is please just delete this post.

I was wondering if anyone would be willing to critique my first few MMO based blog posts. I would be very interested to hear some feedback (both positive and negative) as I am fairly new to this.

You can find my blog here.

Thanks for any comments that you may have :).

looks good to me, good job on your articles, they are really interesting

I think that you're letting your bias show through too much in your blog. You're making assumptions about games that can't actually be proved or disproved - such as your comment about gamers wanting "originality"..... can you actually prove that? You seem to state your opinions as facts, when no two people can agree 100% about what draws them to a game.

And it feels like you're heavily steering your articles to make skill based sand boxes the be-all of the gaming world.

Again, just my opinion.
 

It was well written, but was slightly bland and lacked substance. This is just my view, but when you write a blog it is better to write it slightly more opinionated. Try thinking more about writing an opening for a debate, if you are interested writing blog that might cause discussion. It came across to me as if you were almost looking for a consensus and taking political correctness to the extreme while doing it. You were very careful with your biased views when I would have been very clear and vocal about them.

There are so many blogs out there and people seldom go back to ones that are boring.

Originally posted by Hammertime1

I think that you're letting your bias show through too much in your blog. You're making assumptions about games that can't actually be proved or disproved - such as your comment about gamers wanting "originality"..... can you actually prove that? You seem to state your opinions as facts, when no two people can agree 100% about what draws them to a game.

And it feels like you're heavily steering your articles to make skill based sand boxes the be-all of the gaming world.

Again, just my opinion.
 

That's what a blog is for, stating our own opinion.  He isn't required to be right or wrong or even factual. That's the way he see it and that's how he want's to communicate it.

OP, looks good if a bit dry and rehashed. contrary to Hammertime I think you need to make bolder topics and tell it like it is. You are writing a Blog not a science term paper.

Yes, we all know cloning WoW is dumb idea but we don't make the games we are only the consumers of the products they make. Apparently game companies still feel that its less of a risk to copy WoW then to do something more risky dispite the lacking performance of just about every WoW clone to roll out in the past 5 years.

When EQ went against UO and won (in termsof subscription numbers and media coverage) that was the event that put MMO's on the path they are on now. Blizzard has acknowledged many times they took the best aspects of the best games out at the time and refined them. So essentually they copied EQ.

What companies have been doing IMHO is not really copying WoW so much as attempting to re-refine the same thing over again in hopes of a similar result. (which I think is pretty apparent that it isn't going to happen...but what do I know, right? Bring on the generic fantasy level grinders with raids and after-thought cobbled in PvP because we just don't have enough of them yet)

Not bad but if you ever expect to get any comments, you need to turn off the annoying "log in" requirement.  People aren't going to join your blog and sign up for an account just to post a comment, blog commenting is almost always hit-and-run, people see a post and decide to give feedback.  If it's something offensive, you can always delete it manually later.

Just my take on it.

Fantastic! Thank you all for the feedback.

First things first, I made it so that you needed to register in order to cut back on spam. Even though the blog has only been up for a little while and I have basically done no work to promote it I have had numerous spam posts which is quite annoying. Although I guess that is the price that has to be paid. I'll disable that specific option now.

As for the content I was actually trying to write it as someone who is working on an RPG myself (admittedly it is not an MMO but I feel the concepts are similar) as such I guess the posts are more centred around the theme of my own in progress game. I think you are right though when you say it is somewhat dry. I'll try and liven it up a little in the next post.