Maybe it's just me, but the news update for Spawn seems in a way ... lazy. I don't think that's the case, but I think it could have been done much better.
You will never see a newspaper or any other source for news publish an interview instead of an article. A proper article should be written, with quotations from the interview.
There are also a lot of spelling and grammatical errors, as well as some unprofessional things.
- "A few days ago, Nat had an interview with Mog about Spawn, here's how it went." Who is Nat? Who is Mog? There should be a colon at the end, and you should say something like "here's a transcript of the interview".
- "hosted Playerworld of Spawn.", "What is your Staff position at Spawn?" Incorrect capitalization.
- "Considering the fact that I am banned everwhere else, I had nowhere to go except underdeveloped playerworlds and two of the hosted servers." Should we really be advertising banned players as some of the role models of Graal?
- "I would to say that the current state of what Spawn is at now, was mainly due to hard work and dedication." Incorrect grammar, this is why you should write an article and paraphrase what they say, or get permission to copyedit what they say.
- "Wich is the content?" This should have easily been caught by reading over the interview.
- "Yeah, I've played that =P." This just looks unprofessional, at the very least, one of the forum emoticons could have been used.
- "Thanks Alot" 'a lot' is two words, and it does not need to be capitalized like that.
I'm not trying to throw stones at the news team or Nataxo, or anyone else, but I think a level of professionalism should be expected in these news posts. I'm obsessive about this kind of thing though, so it could just be me, but I have a feeling other people probably feel the same way. If I was trying Graal out for the first time, and I looked at that entry, I probably would have closed the game.
06-05-2009, 05:12 AM
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