As some of you may be aware, the only website that covers STO with anything resembling frequency
will be shutting down.
What does this mean for STO in the future? I don't know, and to be honest I don't really care. I just thought that those of you who didn't know about this already should hear it.
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Yeah, I'm not entirely sure that this changes much - but publicity is publicity, and losing an entire avenue for it (arguably the most well-known avenue at that) probably isn't a good thing.
They have two more widely known mediums available...
TWITTER
FACEBOOK
which they use often
Also Star trek.com which would draw lots towards this game.
So tbh until I played STO I hadn't even heard of massively tbh so men.
I lol'd.
A random user comment from MMORPG.com was usually more coherent and informative than anything at Massively.
If we're going to define 'widely known' by the media themselves as a whole, and not by STO's individual exposure in those media, then you should add YouTube and Twitch to that.
My meaning was that STO's exposure in games 'news' sites was possibly greatest at Massively, but again I'm not sure that losing Massively as an outlet really hurts that much.
Massively mostly consisted of sensationalist writers who were desperate for pageclicks that they'd literally write anything if they thought it'd get people viewing their pages.
I'd say Massively was yellow journalism, but that'd be insulting the definition of journalism.
Nothing of value will be lost with that website shutting down.
What is this "Massively" you speak of? Never heard of it before I started playing STO. As to the Yellow Journalism reference, I seriously doubt many around here got it.
Journalism can get pretty yellow when everyone just takes a big ol' whizz on the concept of news.
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I don't know how "big" of a website trekmovie.com is, but they mention all kinds of Star Trek related news, and I've seen mention of STO several times over the years.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Massively, as most of the AOL managed presence site, have been loosing money. They got decent YOY traffic increases, but add revenue just didn't cut it.
One website doth not maketh a 'strategy' Do your homework.
I think it was around the turn of the century that they reconfigured themselves as a content provider - which they did about as well as they had done Internet access before. It is mildly amazing that they're still chugging along, and I wouldn't expect them to last much longer.
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