Originally Posted by
JD
Hey klepp,
Generally how we choose these sections is based on a few things:
1. Instinct
We have a general feeling about which games will have the most interesting content that will bring more users to our website and keep them there longer. A boring exploit for a game with 100,000 people is not as useful to us as an incredibly interesting exploit for a game with 10,000 people. It will simply draw more attention to the site. We have to go on our gut and experience when it comes to this subject and we generally have people tell us about exploits and hacks in early (alpha or beta) versions of games which allows for a more clear judgement.
2. Hype
A game can be good but it doesn't mean that it's going to have a large fanbase. A lot of people can play a game but if the game doesn't create a community it's kind of hard to create that community around it. ESO had such an insane community already rooting for it when it was announced that it made it clear that the community would pick that up quite easily. A lot of current members were talking about the game from the start and ESO had a pretty large marketing campaign whereas FFXIV was less 'out there' with their marketing. That means that some of us (I'll just speak for myself) didn't get very interested in the game and saw it as less interesting.
3. Initial response
When the initial response of a game is large (we kind of had this with a game as small and unimportant as Neverwinter) we are more likely to give it its own spot on the site than when that response is smaller. For FF that response was less noticable on the site and therefore we cared less. Neverwinter and POE had, for how small the games were, very big initial responses from our community and were marketed a bit more. This doesn't make us right but it's all we have to go by.
4. SEO
This is my part of the story. Whichever section we can rank for the easiest is also the one that will gain the most traction and therefore the most importance. I do the SEO for OwnedCore and I was very big on WoW, D3 and ESO. Not as much on Final Fantasy because I didn't see the hype come up. Because of that we weren't able to get a big enough market share in that game to really care about it.
What it comes down to is really just guessing. Whichever one you guess, people will always tell you you're wrong. When Final Fantasy becomes too big for us to ignore we might give it its own section but for now we still believe ESO is going to grow and become more important for our community.
Hope I've answered your question.