How has 2017 been so far? What happens next? And what do we have planned at Mein-MMO.de?
The MMO year is only just beginning for many. We look back at the past months, give an outlook on what to expect, and explain what has been happening behind the scenes at Mein-MMO.de over the last few months.
The Editorial Team: Much More Working Hours Now Go into Mein-MMO.de
Leya, our author, has been here for half a year now.
From an outside perspective, not much has changed in the team: No new members have joined, and none have left.
Many More Working Hours for Mein-MMO.de
But that impression is misleading. Internally, a lot has changed. We have significantly increased the working hours dedicated to the website and articles.
Ttime has been promoted from freelance employee to editor. A significant leap for someone whose job interview involved repeatedly shouting “FIFA FIFA”.
Jürgen now works full-time for us. Before, he was taking care of MMOs for GameStar. Now he is exclusively working for us as an author and “field reporter”.
With Ben, we have our own programmer responsible for Mein-MMO.de.
Jürgen loves loot of all kinds.
We have also been able to increase the working hours of freelance employees compared to last year.
Due to the many additional working hours invested in the site, we now have time to:
provide even more extensive and in-depth coverage of the “big titles” – leading to detailed articles on Destiny, even when not much is happening in the game, or thorough coverage of Pokémon GO or FIFA 17
How did we manage this? We spent money in the cash shop to increase Cortyn’s cap with a special item: the magical amulet of increased honorarium.
All of this is only possible because you visit our site, begrudgingly accept that ads are displayed here, recommend us to your friends, discuss our site in games, read and comment on our articles. Thank you!
New Site in Planning
You may have read it in the comments: We are planning a “relaunch” of Mein-MMO.de.
We are setting up a new site that aims to have all the “functions” of the current site but with a better design.
The focus is mainly on technical aspects. Our current site was never designed to handle over 15,000 articles that are read daily by more than 100,000 people.
The technical term for this is “the current theme is bursting at the seams.”
The “new site” is currently being designed. The content will not change. It’s just about the technology and features we want to offer you.
That’s why we’ve recently been asking for your opinion through a survey tool about what features you wish for the new site. The new site is something you, as readers, and we, as authors, can look forward to. However, there is currently no timeline for it.
The Year 2017 So Far
So far, the year has not been particularly exciting from our perspective.
There have been 4 releases that were exciting for us:
We have accompanied all four games, spent hours upon hours in the games, and we have established ourselves as a source of information across all 4 titles.
Mein-MMO.de: Variety Brings Success
What is becoming increasingly important is the “console launch” of games that we cover:
The console ports for TERA, Black Desert, and Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds – which are currently in the pipeline
So far, despite relatively little excitement happening with our “flagship games”, it has been a good year. March and April were strong – our best months since the Pokémon craze in summer 2016. We are especially pleased that we are generating such a wide variety of interest.
We as a site are not dependent on the next patch for WoW or the action picking up in Destiny. The success of our site is not tied to one or just a few games.
The times when a reader rightly said that for Mein-MMO, Destiny is what WoW is for other sites – those times are over. Destiny is still important for us, but we have successfully navigated the “weak phase” in Destiny for almost a year and are stronger than ever. We are proud of that in the editorial office.
The interest of our readers is widely spread. They are curious and interested in much of what is happening in online gaming. This is great and makes us happy. Because we, as authors, want to offer a wide range of topics and not just write about the same games all the time.
We had much success in recent months with something we internally call “Facebook Verticals.” We set up Facebook pages for 4 of our main games:
Destiny 2 – Mein MMO already has over 7000 fans – currently, there’s still stuff on Destiny and Destiny 2 – but long-term it will be 100% Destiny 2 – as one can imagine, the site is doing excellently – primarily managed by Ttime
WoW – Mein MMO – this is Cortyn’s realm with memes and surprisingly many role-playing and lore gags, already has over 2500 fans
Overwatch – Mein MMO – here Cortyn shows her entire social media genius – has around 1400 fans, steadily growing
Every article about the game we write appears on these Facebook pages. Additionally, there are all sorts of memes, surveys, videos, and other things. This is a nice aspect for us and has been well received by the readers.
Maybe there will be even more of these Facebook subpages from us in the future.
MMO Year 2017 is Now Really Starting
For us as a site and for many of you as readers, the gaming year 2017 in the online space is just getting exciting:
On Thursday, we will have the first gameplay of Destiny 2 – this is a big deal for our site, after all, Destiny has been our “main game” for a long time and if something exciting happens since November 2015, we are also excited and looking forward to it
