I do think the offical forum needs some help, the vast majority of deathknights have little to no clue what they are talking about. It would be nice to have an intelligent place to post where blizzard could also comment upon bugs (see ghoul not critting) but that very subjective nature of blizzard forums may also cause more problems than it's worth (as opposed to the objective purly factual nature of EJ). Worth a shot if your willing to commit the time it's worth a shot maybe something good will come of it and you can also just pull out if the thread goes to hell. The blizzard dk forums were actually pretty nice at one point, maybe they can go back to that (the point they were nice being Wotlk beta b4 they mass invited people).
Aldorian - 13 years ago
This is a good, selfless objective and surely should be done, to spread the information onto other sites. But this kind of initiative has already well known consequences, I will list only two of them to give you the picture.
One size does not fit all, you will need to have different level of synthesis/detail/communication for a given audience. You already know that, you said it. But I think you underestimate the amount of work it will require, especially when you will want to answer questions.
Which leads to the key point : who do you want to target ? For now you target a certain kind of population who is autonomous enough to find EJ or your blog. This is a population that does not cost you too much in time believe me. If you open to each and every player, you will open the pandora box, endless debates and explanations to people who might not have spent enough time on the game to even understand what you say. They will, in time.
You will be overflood, for sure, and at one point will have to make a choice : decrease quality of your work dedicated to autonomous people to provide huge amount of time to the less autonomous ones, or revert back to the smaller community of people having reached a certain level of autonomy by themselves, even being by finding you (my case).
Let people come to your level so you can sustain it, not the contrary. If you fall, we all fall.
Chris - 13 years ago
I believe that educating other players is ultimately good for the game and should be done.
There's certainly no 'harm' in posting for a wider audience, but I'm not sure I see much advantage in doing so, either. It's your time/effort, so if you want to, feel free.
However, I DO see what you have posted at EJ as perfectly sufficient, and any DK with sufficient motivation should/could/would utilize available resources to make them a better player.
Frostmare - 13 years ago
Additonally, there should be some work to finding out this information. You shouldn't have to spoon-feed the slobbering DK masses with "how to be awesome." If people haven't figured out how to go to EJ by now to get information then they don't deserve the information. Dammit now I'm an EJ......
ODK - 13 years ago
I Agree, arent you spread thin enough between the game, EJ and Consider This? dont run yourself ragged, the community would be near disaster without you, maby a simple post directing people to your own sites if you really want to take on more, but its just more work for you, when someone is new and nice enough to talk to in game they usually get directed to EJ or your site anyways....
Conwolv - 13 years ago
I dont think the regular forums would be a very good place for them. It would spread out your time too much answering a large majority of the idiots on the forums as well as making it harder to find intelligent replies to your posts. MMO-champion forums are a better location if only for the fact they're frequented less often than the official forums.
I do think the offical forum needs some help, the vast majority of deathknights have little to no clue what they are talking about. It would be nice to have an intelligent place to post where blizzard could also comment upon bugs (see ghoul not critting) but that very subjective nature of blizzard forums may also cause more problems than it's worth (as opposed to the objective purly factual nature of EJ). Worth a shot if your willing to commit the time it's worth a shot maybe something good will come of it and you can also just pull out if the thread goes to hell. The blizzard dk forums were actually pretty nice at one point, maybe they can go back to that (the point they were nice being Wotlk beta b4 they mass invited people).
This is a good, selfless objective and surely should be done, to spread the information onto other sites. But this kind of initiative has already well known consequences, I will list only two of them to give you the picture.
One size does not fit all, you will need to have different level of synthesis/detail/communication for a given audience. You already know that, you said it. But I think you underestimate the amount of work it will require, especially when you will want to answer questions.
Which leads to the key point : who do you want to target ? For now you target a certain kind of population who is autonomous enough to find EJ or your blog. This is a population that does not cost you too much in time believe me. If you open to each and every player, you will open the pandora box, endless debates and explanations to people who might not have spent enough time on the game to even understand what you say. They will, in time.
You will be overflood, for sure, and at one point will have to make a choice : decrease quality of your work dedicated to autonomous people to provide huge amount of time to the less autonomous ones, or revert back to the smaller community of people having reached a certain level of autonomy by themselves, even being by finding you (my case).
Let people come to your level so you can sustain it, not the contrary. If you fall, we all fall.
I believe that educating other players is ultimately good for the game and should be done.
There's certainly no 'harm' in posting for a wider audience, but I'm not sure I see much advantage in doing so, either. It's your time/effort, so if you want to, feel free.
However, I DO see what you have posted at EJ as perfectly sufficient, and any DK with sufficient motivation should/could/would utilize available resources to make them a better player.
Additonally, there should be some work to finding out this information. You shouldn't have to spoon-feed the slobbering DK masses with "how to be awesome." If people haven't figured out how to go to EJ by now to get information then they don't deserve the information. Dammit now I'm an EJ......
I Agree, arent you spread thin enough between the game, EJ and Consider This? dont run yourself ragged, the community would be near disaster without you, maby a simple post directing people to your own sites if you really want to take on more, but its just more work for you, when someone is new and nice enough to talk to in game they usually get directed to EJ or your site anyways....
I dont think the regular forums would be a very good place for them. It would spread out your time too much answering a large majority of the idiots on the forums as well as making it harder to find intelligent replies to your posts. MMO-champion forums are a better location if only for the fact they're frequented less often than the official forums.