You’ll be happy to know we are in the process of hiring a new European-based writer on WoW Insider whose primary responsibility will be to report on EU issues for us. She should be starting within the next week or so.

Dan O’Halloran
Managing Editor
WoW Insider

You do have a point that they could write a tuesday morning roundup that doesn’t directly reference the US maintenance. Perhaps there is demand in the US community for a place to post “grr, the servers aren’t back yet” comments? I don’t know how the EU forums hold up, but the US ones become very unreliable during maintenance, especially when it runs longer than expected, and players might actually be relying on third party sites to let them know what’s going on.

(I also get where you’re coming from on server status updates being irritating. Massively used to post something about every last server hiccup in Second Life – the author in question used to run Second Life Insider – and it took them months to figure out that players weren’t complaining about SL news, just the constant updates that weren’t even relevant to most SL players by the time they read them.)

I’m sure you’re right, GArmadillo, but I don’t really see many ads on their site, other than for their other blogs. (I always do wonder how long it’ll be before blogvertisers realise that a lot of people use RSS and don’t see the sites anyway).

I still think you could write good content without alienating a sizeable portion of your readers. I mean, assuming you want to.

@ Tarsus: For whatever reason, Blizzard is running a world-wide operation but schedules its information releases by business day instead of by global time. It’s completely pointless – if you don’t want US players rampaging on the forums before the CM’s have shown up at work, you shouldn’t release information that is going to be immediately reposted on the US forums anyway. Personally, I don’t see any harm in setting a posting bot to automatically post the info on all of the global WoW sites at the same time, but what do I know?