At Mein MMO, we look back at the first half of 2018, welcome a lost son with a bad haircut, and tell you what’s next.
Much has happened since Christmas: The last greeting from the editorial team came at Christmas 2017, and now we are in a heatwave. If you still have your Christmas tree in the living room, you have definitively lost control over your life. In the meantime, we had our relaunch at Mein MMO and we have shaken up the editorial team significantly.
Departures
At Christmas, we introduced you to our new freelance author Guddy, who had been with us since October. However, Guddy left us at the end of February. Ciao Guddy!
Our highly praised author Tom “Ttime” Rothstein has taken a several-month break after two long and hard years. Tom was part of the foundation of our site in 2016 and 2017. He would, in all modesty, even emphasize that he was the pillar. Tom co-led the editorial team and was also responsible for main games like Destiny, The Division, and FIFA.
His decision to leave Mein MMO indefinitely was quite a shock for us at the beginning of the year, which shook up our editorial team. After all, a good portion of our articles came from Tom. Many in the community could hardly imagine “Mein MMO” without Tom. However, he stayed a few more weeks to guide the authors who were supposed to continue his work.
The Upheaval
Help from the Community: As soon as we found out about Tom’s departure, we immediately sought new authors here on the site. And the great thing is: Meanwhile, “Mein MMO” is a brand.
We noticed: Authors and gamers with expertise about their MMO want to work with us. Therefore, we had a great selection of applicants from our community.
The Special Feature: Many of those we hired have known our site for years. They have been watching from the outside. People consciously chose us as they wanted to be part of the team. In the first conversations with applicants, several said: “I know you from the internet!” This way, we surely gained people who wouldn’t have applied if we weren’t the site that we have become after 4 years!
New Arrivals
Directly for Tom, we were able to win Micha Deckert as our new editor. Micha is a dedicated Xbox One player and primarily takes care of the organization of the site: She controls and plans contributions, writes herself, works with the authors, and further develops “Mein MMO” as a project. Micha does not have a fixed main game herself. When she revealed her love for memes, she immediately became Cortyn’s new best friend. Micha found her way to us through her enthusiasm for Destiny.
Our new guy for Destiny and PlayStation 4 is Sven Galitzki. He is a family man and as we could see in our live stream during E3: He is an ex-football player and thus quite a beast. If you not only watched but also listened during the stream, you recognized: Sven is an expert for multiplayer games and has deep knowledge about Destiny, as well as a broad understanding of titles like Anthem, The Division, and many more. Sven hopes, like all of us, that Destiny 2 with “Forsaken” will still catch up. In addition to Destiny, he also covers other shooters and the PlayStation 4 as a platform for us as a freelance author.
New on board is Irina Moritz as a freelance author. She is a specialist in the MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV and is a well-known figure in the community there. Irie also covers exotic games from Asia for us, such as Lost ARK or Justice Online.
A trio of students rounds off the new Mein MMO editorial team:
- Tarek Zehrer is an enthusiastic gamer who covers The Division and The Division 2 for us. He has also worked on The Crew 2 for us. In the future, he will dive even deeper into Mein MMO and accompany more games.
- Philipp Junge is an absolute FIFA expert who will extensively cover EA’s soccer simulation FIFA 19 on Mein MMO.
- Lucas Kaczynski is our new guy for MMORPGs. He covered the launch of Bless and The Elder Scrolls Online “Summerset”. Lucas will also be responsible for Black Desert. He will keep the MMORPG flag flying on our site.
Returnees and Promotions
Patrick Freese, our go-to guy for Pokémon GO, has collected enough Patrick candies by now. So, he was able to evolve from a freelance author to a full-time employee. Patrick is therefore also working on the structure of Mein-MMO.de. For example, he has made sure that we no longer publish articles on the hour and half-hour, but as soon as they are ready. Sometimes 4 articles come out per hour, sometimes none. This, however, was a major advancement for the timeliness of Mein MMO.
And Tom, who triggered the upheaval at the beginning of the year, cannot stay away from us and has announced his triumphant return. However, no one will have to make room for Tom. As a freelance contributor, Tom will work with us on FIFA 19 and Destiny 2. Provided, of course, that the authors who replaced him actually let him write an article.
How has the year been for Mein MMO?
2018 has been going very well so far. We are now the third-largest gaming site in Germany. Compared to 2017, we have almost doubled in size.
This opens up new opportunities for us, some of which you will soon see on the site. We will be at Gamescom with 3 people.
The expansion of our site into a community portal will continue: After you can already mark the posts that are dear to you with the “+1”, we will give you even more opportunities to be part of Mein MMO. We already offer you the option to register on Mein MMO and write user reviews.
What’s coming in 2018: Now, with World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, Destiny 2: Forsaken, Red Dead Redemption 2, FIFA 19, Battlefield V, and Fallout 76, there are several highlights waiting for you and our team, we can say: We at Mein MMO are ready!
Have fun on our site in the coming months!
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