IMPORTANT! Should EN World continue reporting RPG news?

[the-golem]

For me, the news is the first thing I look at each day when I come to the site, so I can keep informed without having to check several sites. It has been nice to come to one place to get a sizable chunk of what is going on.

While the loss of the news page would be like losing the local newspaper for me, I can certainly understand how clearing up those few hours a day can help to get other things accomplished.

This. I visit enworld like, ALL THE TIME. Half the stuff I discover, it's because I read about it on the enworld news. Hmmmm. Keeping the news updated would be easier if you could just echo an RSS feed or something.

(( The only other news I get is from Erik Mona's facebook postings. I blame him for getting me hooked on DisneyXD Avengers. )).

Anyway, my vote is for keeping it.

 

[Morrus]

There is a news page? Now that I know, I might read it regularly. if I can find it.

Maybe whats really needed is to advertise it more. Or maybe I'm just blind - which happens not too rarely on web pages I visit a lot.

Edit: Checked up on the news forum; it was easy to find once I looked.

To clarify, I'm not referring to a forum. I'm referring to the site's front page.

 

[wedgeski]

The news page was certainly why I started coming to ENW, but it's the forums that have kept me here. I keep up with the news page only insofar as I read the newsletter every week, but I certainly don't visit the homepage much to speak of.

The question is really, what's worth reporting? The two big RPG's are established and in-gear, there's no real scoops to be had there. The 3rd party scene is limp at best with the odd exciting morsel which could as easily be a sticky on the General forum. Product announcements aren't news, but are obviously of a lot of value to many folks here so should probably still have a place somewhere.

I dunno. It's hard to be objective on this, to be honest.

 

[delericho]

I read the news page every couple of days.

However, to be honest, at the moment, I wouldn't miss it all that much.

However, when WotC and/or Paizo announce their new editions, I would hope the news would become a lot more interesting, and I wouldn't want to be without the news page then.

So, I would say that if it's a choice between "keeping it forever" or "losing it forever", then I say keep it. If, however, the choice is between "keeping it forever" or "putting it on hiatus until the new edition(s)", then the latter is probably the better choice.

 

[Ahnehnois]

My link is directly to the forums. I used to read the news sometimes, but there isn't much there that interests me anymore. To clarify, once WotC stopped making 3rd edition D&D I stopped caring about their news, and to the small extent that I care about other new releases I get that information elsewhere. Now I come to discuss general rpg issues, address esoteric rules questions, or vote in random polls.

 

[UnknownAtThisTime]

I may be the outlier but I do not read a lot of different RPG web sites. having news here speeds up my "RPG" data collection efforts.

 

[Cor Azer]

I voted for "don't read", but that's somewhat inaccurate.

I suspect I load the main page everyday (at least every second day). It's part of my surfing habits that I open about 4 tabs with enworld and several subforums in them, before I pick out the specific threads I want to read.

For the main page itself though, I generally just quickly skim it. Product announcements aren't overly interesting to me, so I tend to check if there are any analytical pieces there (not often, but they do crop up occasionally).

I don't have an emotional investment in the news page, because I suspect those infrequent "analytical pieces" would just bump over into the general forum.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Like a lot of others, I found Eric's old site when looking for news on the then upcoming 3e. I read it religiously for a while, but by the time Eric's site had evolved into ENWorld I had stopped reading it.

When something important happens, it will reach the forums. Of course, usually with a link to the news page, so...

 

[Roland55]

That's what I do. Occasionally I go directly to the main page to read something or long for more information on something I've heard.

That is also my practice.

Frankly, without this, I just couldn't keep up. Too busy.

 

[jonesy]

I've been watching the news page longer than I've been reading the forum, and much longer than I've been a member.

But I do have to say that I've been using it less and less the past two or three years.