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Re: Op Ed

Feb 13, 2012, 16:08

Beamer

I don't even get what you're arguing anymore.
"People are happy with the current generation." They were also happy with the PS2. Then sales dried up and a new E3 demonstrated how powerful buzzwords are. Boom, Xbox 360 sets new sales records.

"Rational mind?" You've been predicting a video game crash for years now. Has it come yet? You're like Harold Camping.

"Allows consumers to have a more significant impact on a game's development." Oh god, that sounds horrible to me. We'll all be playing game equivalents of The Homer. Consumers never know what they want, or they want conflicting things. Just look at this board - the amount of agreement you'll find is nil. One guy hates combat in Skyrim and the next guy loves it. Even worse, you'd never, ever get to feature lock. You'd never have people willing to make hard choices. And you'd never have a niche. Hell, if people listened to consumers we wouldn't have had Fallout 3 be what Fallout 3 was. And New Vegas would have been stripped down because people were refusing to accept an in-engine game as a full price game rather than an expansion. And worse, who's louder? The small participants of this board or the large group elsewhere? "This is cool, but can you make it more like Call of Duty?"

Already took off? Where? How? What games can you point to that have come from any of the models you're discussing? How many Kickstarted games have been released? What? None?




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