I've been a little slack with ausMMO lately - just too much work on. However, I've recently found a bucket of time (2 days in fact!) to re-design, re-theme and revitalise ausMMO.
As always, something has prompted me into action - Rift, to be exact. Every time a new game comes out, the Australian & New Zealand MMO community scrambles like a pack of mad bastards to find guilds, find old mates and get their game on. Why do we do it? Because there are limited numbers of players, you want to game with old mates (mostly!) and finding a solid home is critical to your MMO experience. This shouldn't be a hard thing to do. I don't want it to be a hard thing to do.
So part of what I'm planning this year is to market ausMMO - make a real effort to get a large chunk of the Aussie/NZ MMORPG community here. Why? I hear you ask!
So that when new games come out, or you're sick of your current guild or you've been interrupted by RL and find your game mates have moved on - you can just drop into ausMMO, find some folks you know and respect and get your game on.
If you know any Aussie/NZ gamers who aren't here at ausMMO - tell them about us. Get guilds here if you can. The quicker we centralise our community, the easier it'll be for everyone - guilds forming up or recruiting. People looking to make a change. Beta invites and organisation. All of it. Easier.
Game on.