Hiya Cuppy! Long-time lurker of blogs here but I rarely comment so here goes. I definitely see the value of daily journal type posts especially from gamers like yourself who have interesting and often insiteful takes on gaming. For myself, I've found that reading the daily exploits of gamers in the games I play or am thinking about playing extremely useful for a few reasons. First, it helps me decide if I even want to play the game. If the blogger is able to impart a certain amount of excitement about what he or she experiences in the game and its features I will sure as heck what to go see for myself. Second, it tends to give me ideas about how I would like to go about my own enjoyment of the game. Surely I have my own idiosyncracies when it comes to gaming but anything that could add to that is always a good thing. Finally, I've personlly discovered many hidden and not so hidden hints for improving my game-play through these types of blog posts. Weither its a "this happened so I did this" or "I play this type of character and this general strategy works for my play-style" type of thing. No doubt I personlly would like to see continued generallized gaming posts but a personal touch of a day-in-the-life-of is extremely entertaining to me and has the added bonus of being practical as well. You also never run out of things to post. Excuse my limited knowledge on the technical aspects of a blog site, but perhaps you can separate the two types of posts somehow so that if you want to do a daily thing and not everyone feels like delving into that area they can just go right to the other stuff. Anyways, those are just my thoughts. In either case keep up the great blogging. 0/
Azy
· 1 year ago
So in my humble opinion, the trouble with 'daily' journaling is that it raises expectations on both sides. Bloggers feel compelled to post something daily, and readers expect to see something from you daily. Not sure which compels what, kind of a chicken/egg thing, but my point is that leaving your blog how it is now seems like the best course of action. If you post more, people will enjoy it, but not be pre-disposedt panicking if you miss a day. ANd for some reason, I can't see what I'm typing, the comment window isn't expanding, so I've no idea if I'm making typos. Bye! =P
DM Osbon
· 1 year ago
I find that doing the journal thing made my writing lazy & turned me off the game, which could be just a personal/isolated reaction.
I'd say no to the journal style. It puts me off reading the post when I see it on a blog...you wouldn't me to stop reading would you?! LOL...
Cuppycake
· 1 year ago
I think that I will post "journal-type" posts frequently, but not commit to doing them every day, and only post them if I have some commentary enough to warrant posting it. Rather then just say "Today I leveled to 50" and that's it.
Don't leave me DM Osbon! =)
DM Osbon
· 1 year ago
No chance...it'll take more than a few WoW posts to do that!
Mashidar
· 1 year ago
The "commetary" posts were more along the lines I was speaking about. We readers already have expectations but I for one won't panic too much. A little anticipation is a good thing and I've rarely heard a blogger write (not that I havent seen it) "I've got too much to write about!!! Gah, you readers are killing me!! Go to hell with your wacky expectations!" That actually sounds like somethimg I would say, really. Anyway, have fun with the possible, sometimes, hopefully-not-about-fishing-to-375, journal posts Cuppy. I, for one, will certainly not leave if you decide to go bike-riding or visit a friend instead of blogger on some days. Cheers!
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Long-time lurker of blogs here but I rarely comment so here goes.
I definitely see the value of daily journal type posts especially from gamers like yourself who have interesting and often insiteful takes on gaming. For myself, I've found that reading the daily exploits of gamers in the games I play or am thinking about playing extremely useful for a few reasons.
First, it helps me decide if I even want to play the game. If the blogger is able to impart a certain amount of excitement about what he or she experiences in the game and its features I will sure as heck what to go see for myself.
Second, it tends to give me ideas about how I would like to go about my own enjoyment of the game. Surely I have my own idiosyncracies when it comes to gaming but anything that could add to that is always a good thing.
Finally, I've personlly discovered many hidden and not so hidden hints for improving my game-play through these types of blog posts. Weither its a "this happened so I did this" or "I play this type of character and this general strategy works for my play-style" type of thing.
No doubt I personlly would like to see continued generallized gaming posts but a personal touch of a day-in-the-life-of is extremely entertaining to me and has the added bonus of being practical as well. You also never run out of things to post.
Excuse my limited knowledge on the technical aspects of a blog site, but perhaps you can separate the two types of posts somehow so that if you want to do a daily thing and not everyone feels like delving into that area they can just go right to the other stuff.
Anyways, those are just my thoughts. In either case keep up the great blogging. 0/
I'd say no to the journal style. It puts me off reading the post when I see it on a blog...you wouldn't me to stop reading would you?! LOL...
Don't leave me DM Osbon! =)