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12 Steps To Regain Industry Confidence

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the take-it-to-them dept.

Next Generation has a piece with some lessons drawn from the Game Marketing Conference. The article offers at 12-step program for restoring the game industry's self-confidence. A good idea, in the wake of Hot Coffee and in the face of angry legislators. From the article: "4. Publicize that history shows we never embrace new media. This is true for silent movies, radio, pulp magazines, comic books and every new music wave including Mozart. Videogames are not the devil incarnate, and not capable of half the deviltry our critics claim for them."

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  1. Re:ews? by Thad+Boyd · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Tell that to Take-Two's shareholders.

  2. The devil is in the details. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "Videogames are not the devil incarnate, and not capable of half the deviltry our critics claim for them."

    Who's saying they are? Being concerned about side effects isn't the same as saying games are the "devil incarnate".

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  3. Re:Learning from history by Prophet+of+Nixon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, to some extent I think the original twitch based videogame generation is lobbying a bit against the new 'MMO' skill-less videogame-as-timesink generation. At least it seems that way to me. I don't even consider those crapfests games. And I know I'm not the only one. I see MMOs going the way of persistent virtual reality worlds if technology allows, which lead to complete reality withdrawl of their users. I would lobby against that. Its not so much that its morally wrong (its not at all so far as I can tell) as it is completely unnatural and unhuman. We'll be reaching a point soon where the old moral standards aren't going to be able to completely explain why some of us feel strongly for or against some things... where the issues that are divisive will not be along lines of morality or law, but rather humanity and reality.

    I dunno.

    I'm probably nuts.