Originally posted by daylight01

Originally posted by LynxJSA

Since MMORPG.com staff has already said it generates traffic, the question is whether they highlight it because they know there are tons of readers that will dive on it to anxiously read it or they know there are tons of readers that will dive on it to tear it apart.

 

So basically any press is good press,the same with this topic regarding a members blog,Let ppl continue to flame/agree with the blogg as long as it brings in posters.....sorry I think this is wrong and could stop other members from starting a blog...

How did you derive that from my post? It was a question as to which one it might be, not a statement that either was the actual case.

I thought he got the spotlight status becouse of the number of ppl who reads his blog, it's an automated thing... stop reading them and it won't show up as spotlight anymore...

I'm currently playing 2 games. AoC and GW but i spend more time reading posts here. You guys are great. The hate, love, drama, the thing about the white frame. I dont know the game but this forum is surely alive.

Oh on topic, Paragus1's blog is actually how i hooked up with this game. His blog while avoiding mentioning lack of basic things taken for granted in many games, usually focus on things that you cant do (or never heard of) in other games. I mean, where else can(/did) you raid(/ed) a player city to build your ship and use it to destroy another?

wow, took like 40 minutes to shuffle through all this trash and bickering.

sounded like a 6th grade girls table cafeteria fight in school on those previous pages.

so from what I gather nobody here has a blog...

nobody here has taken the time to be a spotlight blogger...

oh, and i think since paragus is playing DF, and ONLY DF

it would be a bit difficult for him to review any other game.

and his previous blogs were the same.

Originally posted by daarco

But why follow and read everything about a game you are not interested in? Write your own blogs instead of telling others to stop with thiers!

okie dokie - wilco!

edit: first one done - more to follow.

 It's just a blog, a well written one at that.  Although Paragus1's rants tend to be all about the positives of the game that is still no reason to call for it to be taken down.  Yes, I would like to see some more cons to better weigh  against the pros but its Paragus1's choice because it's his blog.... his opinion.  If you do not agree with Paragus's take on the game , write a blog as well written and detailed as he has. I'm sure the staff here will put it up for the simple fact that it will stir up all kinds of actvitiy and traffic to the site. 

I just hope that a hatred of  Darkfall and AV was not your main motivation to start this thread.

Originally posted by Mister_White

wow, took like 40 minutes to shuffle through all this trash and bickering.

sounded like a 6th grade girls table cafeteria fight in school on those previous pages.

 

so from what I gather nobody here has a blog...

nobody here has taken the time to be a spotlight blogger...

oh, and i think since paragus is playing DF, and ONLY DF

it would be a bit difficult for him to review any other game.

and his previous blogs were the same.

 

I actually do have a blog.

Even if it only has two posts in it.

No one actually took the time to read them, as can be seen from the comments at the bottom, so I just gave up.

Originally posted by Devour
 

I actually do have a blog.

Even if it only has two posts in it.

No one actually took the time to read them, as can be seen from the comments at the bottom, so I just gave up.

Maybe we did read them and they just really weren't worth commenting on.

Unpossible!

Originally posted by Devour

He's became a very, VERY sycophantic fankiddie, and an obvious shill. He's claimed to "have the ear of the developers" which, to me, suggests that he's doing nothing more than working the propaganda machine in order to get more subs for the game, and to feed Tasos' hunger for fankiddism.

I mean, if he doesn't get removed, at least give a disclaimer that the information is probably extremely heavily biased TOWARDS Darkfall, because - I don't know about you - but I don't find the fact that new players may be convinced by heavy handed pro-Darkfall crap, just because it seems to be official and on the front page.

TL;DR:
Either remove Paragus1 from "Spotlight Blogs", or change him to something like "Official Darkfall Blog", so that people know to be wary of anything he might say.

so this is something obgective  from a guy that can actually tell me if this game is good

AND

Conclusion

In my beta review, I recommended that most people should probably hold off before buying the game until they worked out some of the kinks. Is now the time to jump in? I can say it is a lot better now than it was in the beta, and the frequency and changes in the patches we have been getting makes me think that this game is going to be getting better on a weekly basis. I'd recommend that if you are on the fence, that you should keep an eye on the weekly patch notes. It is by no means as polished as some of the so called AAA MMO's in recent memory, but at 60 days in Warhammer, my guild had one foot out the door, and here it looks so far to be going pretty well. The irony is that despite its flaws, Darkfall performs better than Warhammer Online did with massive amount of people on the screen engaged in PvP. Other than that, I hope Aventurine will continue to add some more soloable PvE spawns and work out some of the issues with the siege mechanic loopholes. I am also hoping I will also get a chance to write again about the War Hulks many of you have been asking about sometime in the foreseeable future.

 (this is from the 60 days of darkfall blog)

this is what a fanboy writes?

so!!!!

which thing to choose as my main aproach on this thread?

hmm,lets see.on the left we have a hater,from what i see:

I mean, if he doesn't get removed, at least give a disclaimer that the information is probably extremely heavily biased TOWARDS Darkfall, because - I don't know about you - but I don't find the fact that new players may be convinced by heavy handed pro-Darkfall crap, just because it seems to be official and on the front page.

and on the other side we have a fanboy that likes tha game and say:

" I'd recommend that if you are on the fence, that you should keep an eye on the weekly patch notes. It is by no means as polished as some of the so called AAA MMO's in recent memory "

and since since he is so biased and loves this game so much,which he does.he say:

Other than that, I hope Aventurine will continue to add some more soloable PvE spawns and work out some of the issues with the siege mechanic loopholes

i dont know which side to take...please help me decide...oh and dont forget this is a BLOG about a GAME on the INTERNET,if you DONT LIKE IT.then STOP reading it.and if you DONT like darkfall,then DONT read ANYTHING for it.there hapens to be some people THAT  ACTUALLY LIKE THE GAME,why is this so weird for you.LET them ENJOY the GAME that THEY LIKE

Originally posted by boxfetish

Wow!

 

There sure are a lot of idiots on this site.

 

MrBloodworth, Supercrap, and nate1980 are exactly right in their assessments of Paragus' blog.  The issue is not that Paragus likes DF, it's that his blog is highlighted above others and passed off as news by this site. 

 

I say this as somone who currently plays Darkfall.  I have for over a month and I beta tested for over 5 weeks.  I like it enough to renew my subscription and keep playing it for now.   There are many issues I have with the game and it is woefully incomplete, but  I still like it, on balance.

 

Although the OP went overboard, and was unnecessarily harsh he was, for the most part, correct.  These blogs about the game are very subjective and MMORPG.com is trying to dress them up as news or reporting about Darkfall.  Don't the schools teach children how to deconstruct writing and identify bias, agenda, and context?

You are asking about schools teaching??  And you don't even understand that the definition of a blog in an opinion piece, and by definition not meant to be objective in any way?

LOL....

How do they "dress it up as news" when it is in a blog section? 

Originally posted by LynxJSA

Maybe we did read them and they just really weren't worth commenting on.

Unpossible!

They've only got 600 views between them. =(

No you can't and MMORPG.com staff has told you so

>.<

wassamatta Darth, you jealous of Paragus' popularity?

What popularity, it's a blog, it was a blog with genuine, pretty detailed information about a game many didn't get the chance to experience from the begining themselves. The blog's information was popular (esp with the haters afterall it's where they got a lot of their info from) not paragus, he just does a very good job of gathering the info and presenting it well, something which has been hard to come by from the usual sources.

Thought this was a democracy...?

I like reading his blogs lol

but the entire argument is pritty simple and easy to understand

its a blog

its not a news article

so it should not ever be under the news section !

if it is going to be under the news section then same rules should apply to him that apply to article writers.

aka no fanboyism one sided this is great go buy it spin.

Originally posted by Geriden

I like reading his blogs lol

but the entire argument is pritty simple and easy to understand

its a blog

its not a news article

so it should not ever be under the news section !

if it is going to be under the news section then same rules should apply to him that apply to article writers.

aka no fanboyism one sided this is great go buy it spin.

that makes sense.

therefore, it will probably be both ignored and flamed.

It's a blog, not a news article, a blog, you don't like the game, blogged it yourselves. Don't like the writer, don't read the blog.  Don't like not getting your way, tough.

i guess the questions are...

does mmorpg.com have standards for a "news article"?

if yes; then, are the blog posts below, being held to that standard?

Originally posted by Stradden

Paragus has updated his blog, reporting on the end of the first major war in Darkfall's sandbox world. In the entry, he interviews the top dogs on both the winning and losing sides.

Originally posted by Stradden
In his latest blog entry Phil Guzzardo, better known as Paragus, writes a 60 days of Darkfall report, looking at numerous changes, good and bad, that have been made to the game since launch.

Start making blog posts of your favorite game in same depth and detail as Paragus posts his and they will get posted too...problem solved, any other questions?