As some of you may have (or may not have) read, "World of Ming Meets Hydramist" (The WoW section of Sixjax-Gaming), has officially ended as of 4/20/2011.
I, personally, wasn't a big fan of World of Ming, but it is sad to see a PvP oriented webpage like that die.
I don't know really. I always hated that site for some reason.
The content wasn't all that and the forum was pretty much non-existent. Besides that the site in general was very slow.
Yes, it's somewhat sad, but unfortunately we predicted this happening.
The way the community works / worked changed hugely with Wrath, and it somewhat detracted from the community in my opinion.
='( is this why the merge was not going to happen?
-This is ten percent luck,
-Twenty percent skill,
-Fifteen percent concentrated power of will,
-Five percent pleasure,
-Fifty percent pain,
-And a Hundred Percent reason to remember the name!
THEHIPEEY!
Some would agree, others would disagree.Originally Posted by thehipeey
I agree partially. The merge not happening, Hydramist, World of Ming, the community. Its all connected of course. Since there are no tournaments either there really isn't anything left to write about. So people tend to not visit sites like WoM any more. In my opinion, the day that 3v3 gets picked up again by MLG or whatever, you'll see blogs falling out the sky as if it was snowing blogs and the community would have something to read again.
Well, once they tried to sell stuff over the blogs the end was inevitable. Ming was decent at creating noise, but never produced quality or was really entertaining.
One general problem with WoW is that the branding is so hard. You rarely see the players themselves, the characters change all the time and look different and now a regular plattform is missing. Ultimately the concept of the generation one MMOs (grind to get better stuff) does not work well with balanced PVP. Still blogs and movies can be entertaining, even without shitty drama, but on a more personal level. But there is no dogma to defend, no attitude and that is what ultimately costs the playerbase. Drama simply is more interesting in other areas than E-Sports and with reduction of meta-game-concepts there are very few secrets left to discover, especially with the rise of sites like skill-capped there are better ways to improve than reading blogs.
In my opinion blogs have to discuss the gamer life-style, and focus also on more real-life stuff, like how to be competitive while having sex without paying for it, looking good naked, managing a relation or two and and still complete university faster than the rest of the mob. I for example found it pretty interesting to talk about decent cooking in very short time in my little German PVP blog. I think the by far best blogger in WoW is Yiska and he is the only one that could keep a blog site running. He got the concept on how to be entertaining, informative, ironic and suprise his readers over and over. Would love if he kept his blog on hydramist.net.
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Really good post. +rep
One little typo though: Hydramist.TV
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