I'm a freelance journalist in the games industry, 16 years old. I was set to cover E3 for one of my employers until I noticed the '18 or older' restriction on their site. We called them up and they said no exceptions could be made. There's a 90% chance that I could have snuck in, but I didn't want to risk the time and airfare and such if there was any chance of not getting in. So not only did *I* lose the (not inconsiderable) income I would have gained from the gig, E3's organizers lost the income I would have given *them* by covering their games. Which is more valuable: a 16 year old gaming journalist with good connections and a strong magazine to back him up, or a 26 year old Babbage's clerk? Feh. -Cybrid
Actually, most game designers spend the majority of their time on something else. Maps, code, art, QA, whatever. There are a few cases (massively multiplayer RPGs come to mind) where there's enough detail for a designer to spend all of his or her time doing designer stuff. But FPS don't exactly fall into that category;)
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I'm a freelance journalist in the games industry, 16 years old. I was set to cover E3 for one of my employers until I noticed the '18 or older' restriction on their site. We called them up and they said no exceptions could be made. There's a 90% chance that I could have snuck in, but I didn't want to risk the time and airfare and such if there was any chance of not getting in. So not only did *I* lose the (not inconsiderable) income I would have gained from the gig, E3's organizers lost the income I would have given *them* by covering their games. Which is more valuable: a 16 year old gaming journalist with good connections and a strong magazine to back him up, or a 26 year old Babbage's clerk? Feh. -Cybrid
Actually, most game designers spend the majority of their time on something else. Maps, code, art, QA, whatever. There are a few cases (massively multiplayer RPGs come to mind) where there's enough detail for a designer to spend all of his or her time doing designer stuff. But FPS don't exactly fall into that category ;)
-Cybrid