Just looking at the list, I am mildly surprised at the number that are dedicated (at least in part) to SWTOR, perhaps thanks to a resurgence in players due to the 12x XP "event" currently underway. Regrettably, I have not read many of these worthy blogs. The ones I have read are starred, but I'm sure all are worth checking out, and I intend to do so in the coming days.
- Aspect of the Hare
- Chaotic Pixels
- Gamer Girl Confessions*
- Gaming Adventures
- Imperial Intelligence
- In Character
- Knifesedge Adventures
- Lair of the Wolf Dragon
- Light the Beacons
- Memoirs of a Lady
- My Game Ramblings*
- Pleasant Gamer
- Randark’s Review
- Simcha’s Many Lives*
- Soultamer Gaming
- The Balance Force*
- The Iron Dagger*
- The Legacies in SWTOR
- The Rykter Scale
- Tyrannodorkus
- Waiting for Rez
- Zerneblog*
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I take a bit of the blame for the high amount of SWTOR blogs. I tend to look out for new SWTOR blogs, so I contacted some of the above to tell them about the NBI: I figured it would be something you easily miss if you've recently started blogging and don't know about the gaming blog community. I'm happy so many decided to participate!
ReplyDeleteThat said, 2014-2015 have been very good years for SWTOR blogging. I took a bit of a blogging break, and was surprised to see that the amount of blogs had doubled at least when I came back! There used to be very few back in the day. I don't think it has to do with 12x XP for the new blogs: most of them started before that. Although there has been renewed SWTOR blog activity from some people that came back to SWTOR after a looong break with 12x XP, like you (yay).
So YOU"RE the culprit! :D
DeleteYeah, I somehow came in contact with at least Zernebog before NBI even started, so I know there have been a few SWTOR blogs around beside yours. :)
I also noticed the preponderance of SW:TOR blogs. As well Ravanel's proactive recruitment I do wonder if that's where a lot of WoW's missing millions have gone? I suspect it's going to be more of a long-term, slow-burn success than most of us ever imagined it would be.
ReplyDeleteNot that I want to pick favorites but of the NBI 2015 crop that you haven't tried so far I would recommend both Aspect of the Hare and Waiting For Rez as blogs that are updated regularly and make for consistently good reads.
Thanks for highlighting those two. I plan to check them all out, but have run up against the net nanny here at work.
DeleteI agree that SWTOR seems to have become a slow burning success. There are always plenty of people around when I'm online.
Thank you for the shoutout in this comment :)
DeleteI've really enjoyed reading all the NBI blogs. It was a fantastic event!
NBI was pretty awesome, this year. I loved being a part of it!
ReplyDeleteAs for the graph spikes, I've noticed that if posts are all relatively the same, it's that a tweet of a post got shared to a wider audience, and then I got some folks clicking through "related posts" via a widget I have. At least, that's what I assume based on my own experiences on the "related posts" that are likely to show up. :)
True, like I said, normally I can point to a specific post, but this time it was over several days, and none of my individual post were getting high numbers, implying that people (or ) bots) were visiting the main page without going to the posts directly.
DeleteI'm glad you were in on the NBI action, you're one of my favorite new Tweeps. :)