It’s a real shame to see quality bloggers like Jennifer quitting, but does it really signal the end of WAR? Not anywhere near. People get burned out of MMOs all the time, being a blogger about said game doesn’t exclude them from burn out. If anything it’s more likely to push them to it.

I’m not saying that all the WAR bloggers are quitting. I am seeing a decrease in the amount of blogging going on though. Then there’s the fact that some of the blogs that have thrown in the towel — WAAAGH, Breakfast at War, Wizards & Wenches, and mine to a lesser extent — were some of the more popular blogs out there. I’m wondering what effect those departing bloggers will have on the community as a whole and on the in-game population.

From what I see, the bloggers who left are the ones who posted 3 or 4 times a day. Still, of those, not all who left the game quit posting about war entirely, like Syp over at Bio Break.

There are a ton of new games coming out and trying to single your blog to one topic can be tough. I can see how burnout might occur. Also, there has been a lot of odium and hullabaloo caused by the blogging community that tends to spread like wild fire as well … such as posts like these.

To be honest, I expect to see a lot of these folks returning to the game in a 4 or 5 months. I say that because if they didn’t want WAR to succeed, they wouldn’t have spent so much of their free time promoting the game with a blog.

My opinions of course.

Before it happened in terms of blogs, it was happening in terms of forum participation.

There’s only so much a single person has to say about an MMO, since (as we’ve all griped about) they’re basically static. Aside from patch day, things don’t change a lot and after we’ve dug deep and unearthed all the neatest bits, it’s natural for enthusiasm for writing about the game to taper off.

The big question is, what is going on with the in-game population? If *that* is dwindling, then there’s a problem, I guess.

I think it was a comment over when breakfast at war left that made me cringe. It said something like “I enjoy the game, but all these bloggers leaving make me question the game.” Just plain stupid if you ask me. People should make up their own damn minds.

I’ve had less than 6 CTD’s since launch.

I sometimes feel like I’m not even playing the same game, at least from a technical/performance standpoint. Maybe this is one of the reasons that I’m still enjoying the game greatly.

Also, as far as bloggers go, we are still a very small group, we are possible some of the most vocal players, but we are still one of the smaller groups. Thus, when a blogger quits, it seems like the ripples affect many players, but don’t forget, we are in a relatively small pond, thus the ripples seem that much larger.

I don’t think WAR is as much a disappointment as Tabula Rasa was, and it’s likely that WAR will be around for longer than a year. But you’re right, it would be interesting to see the fan community reaction to those games and how they relate to what’s happening with WAR now.