The Impact of Episodic Gaming

GameDailyBiz has a piece up looking at what episodic content is, and what it means to the future of the games industry. From the article: "Our age is one of aging. Mainstream gamers are now older on average than they have ever been. When you are single and unemployed, it is easy to play The Godfather for nine straight hours the day the game hits the shelf. When you are married, it becomes tougher. When you have kids, it might be impossible. It is difficult to slice some time for yourself. And in that slice, you have to carve a portion for gaming. It is no wonder casual games that require no more than 10 minutes to play continue to grow in popularity. This is why we are more likely to login to Call of Duty 2 on Xbox Live to play a quick five-minute Team Deathmatch and leave the Lobby."

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Hrm... I see the problem here.

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When you are single and unemployed, it is easy to play The Godfather for nine straight hours the day the game hits the shelf. When you are married, it becomes tougher.

Ahhh... So the problem is the kids, then the wife, and then the job.

Well... I need a job to support my drinking habbits so I can't really give that up.

But the wife and the kids I could do without.

I came close to getting married and then realized I was a horrible person when it comes to being loyal and later discovered the joy of being in a permanent "open relationship" with someone.

Secondly, I don't see the need to procreate. It occurred to me one day that I for one have no reason to be having children (and I wish a lot of people would realize this too). I mean you have made it this far without having children yet, have you really sat down and thought it over why you really want kids? To make yourself happy? Grand experiment? Living vicariously? Creating life like god? Passing your genes into the gene pool? Make the wife happy by fufilling her natural instincts? I'm not saying having kids is wrong, but sometimes I am under the impression that many people get married and have kids because they think it will somehow make them happy or they do it because everyone in their family expects them to do it.

But... If you already have them then you gotta love them because anything less would be wrong. People should have kids for the right reasons and strive to be the best possible parents possible which is one of the reason I have decided to decline in the act.

Besides I've got insane psychotic relatives on one side of the family and the other is alcoholics with personal issues.

I don't want to force those genes on anyone... Maybe if I settled down I'd adopt some poor asian kid, but I digress.

But here is the crux of the matter... Many people think growing up involves getting married and having kids. Actually, that has nothing to do with. I knew plenty of people who have kids and are married (or divorced) yet they still are immature bastards.

Secondly, having kids and getting married doesn't entail you not having fun.

I've got two seperate friends who have kids, yet one plays city of heroes and the other plays tons and tons of console games (xbox and ps2) and yet they both hold full time jobs and spend plenty of time with their kids. (In fact the xbox one plays the games with them)

Sure its tougher for them to find more free time to spend 9 hours a day grinding on their RPGs, but so is it for me when I'm spending more time at work, working on small business stuff, and out drinking and clubbing.

To generalize this as growing up doesn't always hold true.