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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5985807" data-attributes="member: 10479">I've given this a bit more thought and have come to the conclusion that for EN World to be a good RPG News site, it needs to do a lot more than just cover the two main RPG companies, otherwise it might as well change its name.  At the least, the announcement of a Kickstarter RPG project is the announcement of an RPG or RPG-related product in the works, sometimes a whole product line.  Given that, EN World covering the announcement of a new Kickstarter project is solid RPG News reporting.  It's not hype, it's not the announcement of a "sale" or just another design journal or blog post like many companies do to keep their brand in the public eye while they work on the next big thing.  It's an actual announcement of a planned project and it seems that the vast majority get funded (most wouldn't bother unless they were pretty damned sure of success) while I'm often surprised at the huge funding garnered by some projects (1 1/4 MM by OotS?).Anyway, each is an individual News item is worthy of front page exposure.  If they happen to collectively take up a good amount of front page real estate and cause enough discussion that the two main RPG companies have to do more to compete for that front page news space, then let it happen naturally.  Obviously the Kickstarters are getting funded and the products are getting made, so the complaints you might be getting aren't coming from the people who produced or backed those products and they read news too.  I think buundling the product News from certain quarters and shoving it off in a pile in the corner is probably not a good idea after all and, along the same lines, bundling a week's worth of blog posts from a single company isn't the same thing.  Besides, if someone is interested in only reading news from one or two main companies, then bundling their week's worth of blog posts makes it easier to find while avoiding the other news from the many tabletop RPG companies that make up the wide and diverse market.So, let the RPG News page include all the tabletop RPG News you can get your hands on or that people submit.  If people have to scroll a bit to get to the only news they are personally interested in reading, so be it.  It's been a long time since this site was dedicated to just a single company's third edition release news.  The ENnies alone suggest this site is about a much broader industry.  A "Daily RPG Magazine" probably needs to remain fairly broad in its news coverage.</blockquote>

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