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WoW Helping or Hurting the Industry?
alstor writes "The New York Times has an interesting story about the success of World of Warcraft, and whether it is hurting or helping the gaming industry; this goes along with an earlier post on an article from CNN. From the Times article: 'WoW is now the 800-pound gorilla in the room. I think it also applies to the single-player games. If some kid is paying $15 a month on top of the initial $50 investment and is devoting so many hours a week to it, are they really going to go out and buy the next Need for Speed or whatever? There is a real fear that this game, with its incredible time investment, will really cut into game-buying across the industry.' What is the Slashdot opinion on World of Warcraft's impact on the gaming industry?"
WoW is good for the industry extremely good. Do you remember when Bill Gates explained that his software was half-working, not working as marketed and absolutely not stable because progamming an OS was hard, a huge job into which errors would be made (I really don't feel to go trough the web for a link to this story... sry)?
remember?
The fucking judge agreed so now its common practice to market stuff you just don't deliver, to ship non-working product, to sell extremely low quality product very expensively to consummers (in computing of course, where bad products are the norm). WoW is bringing that mentality to gaming. WoW is the single most despicable product to have hit my computer in years. Their servers are constantly down, the amount of bugs in the game is stagerring, dupe and exploit are used by wise-ass no-life players and Blizzard does nothing about it. This game is an EXTREMELY bad product. The game in itself is a load of fun, for real, leveling a character by making him run trough spots of creatures that look like they were painted on the landscape using a cloning tool, who aimlessly move about with no other purpose than being killed, is fun, experiencing great adventures trough a series of one paragraph text with multiple english errors which are fed to you each 15-20 creature killed is a blast, I'm sarcastic but this game truly is fun, for real, I especially like to PVP in the battleground, its just that you have to experience the rest of the game to fight in battleground, anyways, I challenge anyone here to spend 5 minute in the game without encountering at least one bug (creature placing themselves over you, they litteraly go trough you, you stand in the middle of them while the fight go on, so you have problem selecting yourself and it constantly tells you you are facing the wrong way, etc., telling you you are too far from a creature when you are hugging it, creatures dispearing after a stun just to see them reappear amidst their mob friend who will gladfully all jump on you... and so on and so forth), just that, 5 min.
Wow is a benediction to all game company, it is the new standard for whats acceptable as far as mediocrity goes in gaming, if hordes of morons can pay 15$ per month for that...