Chances are, if you post even once a month, I think you're a superb staffer. Windy's great. If you send him a PM, he'll respond, even if he isn't posting very much at the time. I know Jonny reads a lot about what we say. I've seen him reply several times. Evan, you're here now, posting when something comes up like this. That's great. TYP will answer right away if you ask him a question, especially in one of his RT threads. Karl I like to poke fun at, because he's a seminole, and the same goes a little looser for Mike Sklens. Pale is awesome, and apparently, after just checking it now, his blogsite is too. That youtube of the Galaxy orchestra was amazing, btw. AzureNightmare is growing in presence here, too.
But here's the thing Evan. It's a point I've been trying to make a lot. We can't tell who does what in the news. We talk to pseudonyms on the forums, and the articles we see in the talkback threads, where I go to see the news most of the time, rather than read it on the front page, don't tell us who wrote them there. If we want to find out, we have to go to the main page again, and most people don't think to do that. So essentially, we see news as being from the entity that is NWR. We don't see that Jonny wrote that review to such-and-such game. We don't see that Kairon covered this press release. We don't see that on the forum. Then, a lot of the time we see names, we can't easily associate that name to either a forum identity or any other body of work.
So ask me, why do I know Windy is Steven Rodriguez? Why do I know Svevan is Evan Burchfield. Why do I know that Jonnyboy17 is Jonathan Metts? Why do I know that Viewtiful_Gamer is Karl Casteneda or however it's spelled? Honestly, it's not because they post on the forums. I don't really notice signatures unless I look at them specifically. It's because these people do work that includes their names, and then respond to you when you ask them questions about their work. Podcasts, editorials, whatever, they are the ones with the names that appear in the first post of the talkback thread, and as a result, I know who to talk to about the article.
Also, I know Crimm is James Jones, that Kairon is Carmine "Cai" Red, that TYP is Michael Cole, and for some reason, I can't remember Mike Sklen's forum name, but I'd know it if I saw it. I know Pale is Mike Sklens, too, but I know Crimm because I actually took the time to see that, I know Kairon because of that whole auto-sig deal, I know TYP's because of live Radio Trivia, and I know Pale's because of the forums. I would know AzureNightmare's but I keep forgetting his real name even though I just remembered it's Brad Mossbacher.
So anyways, I don't know what I'm getting at, aside from that names should be attached to the related articles, including press releases and reviews, the majority of the site's coverage. I'll be honest, I'm certain I've treated staff poorly, but I didn't intend to, and I'm sorry for that. However, I don't doubt that the staff doesn't do a great job here at all. I've said it before, there's only one website I ever go to for a decent review with video games. I just don't trust anyone else. On my bookmarks, NintendoWorldReport is the very first one, and my first target daily. I'd listen to the podcasts if I had the time to without having to break it into chunks. The community is, truthfully first rate. The staff does not ever, ever, ever, ever, act like they are automatically better than the forum members, despite having proven their capabilities to the qualified management in place. The editorials are usually very up to date and bear a quick turn around time to real-world events. No statements are almost always well supported. I could go on and on about how awesome this entire place is, but I never thought I needed to. That's my mistake, because you all deserve thanks for doing these things for us. It's why we want to support you when you leave to grander things, especially in journalism. We already know you're great. I guess we just assume you all know it, too.
Anyways, as to why this thread is here in the first case, ShiftKey is leaving or has left. I've got to say, I don't know much about what he did at NWR. Not because he didn't do great things, but rather because I couldn't associate the forum name to the actual name in his work here. However, I do sympathize with his idea that a place just needs to get things done instead of putting them off, but let's be honest, you guys aren't paid, you deliver multiple pieces of content daily, except some weekend days (rarely), and you maintain everything, so there's not much time to just get things done, is there? After all, you do want to maintain gaming as a hobby.
Also, as to why a lot of us bug you about forum software, I think it's because you've hinted that it's coming. We just want to know the progress of things we know exist, I think. I can't speak for everyone, but personally, I don't think there's really a problem with what's here. Then again, I haven't seen much else besides disgusting picture-laden junky forums on random sites, the barebones retarded GameFaqs approach, and the blog-style comment system. This style seems wonderful by comparison to those. Then again, I haven't asked about forum upgrades, either, so you may want to ask one of the people asking about the forums why the upgrade is so important.
I've just been in a ranty mood today. It's Kotaku's fault. They're all idiots, and no matter how hard I try, I can't un-idiot them. On the rare event that I comment to a news post there, I usually have to rant on for days with people disagreeing with me for stupid reasons, so I try to limit initial postings to about once every other week. I'd go somewhere else, but there isn't much else that isn't incredibly corporately run and biased for various reasons. Though Kotaku's pretty biased, too, at least I can point out where the editors are explicitly idiots at and not have to worry about annoying subversive bias. I hope you can see the difference in opinion I've got between your sites here. I'd take NWR over any other gaming news site any day of the week.
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