If they made a better smarter game that allowed players to do what the really want and not have to go through artificial "grinding" to get there characters where they need to be to actually gone on a raid or whatever else is cool to do. WoW is popular, that is a fact. But it is far from a flawlessly designed game. When you compare it to what a human does as a say a good DM in a paper and dice game, it is extremely primitive.
Every wonder why you don't see a hero in a movie "grind"; why you never read about the 89 trolls that Gandalf killed. No you don't wonder because that would be stupid. They need to spend the money they are using suing a clever programmer to make better game design and drop the grind.
The point of the story was to display ILM data crunching power as impressive for a POST PRODUCTION house. Not "the greatest data center in the world". Compared to any other post production house, ILM is pretty darn impressive.
If M$ or anyone else ever made a "play once" anything, it would completely flop. Someone would get fired for spending money on such a stupid product. Noone in their right mind would do anything like this. If they did they are not thinking very clearly at all.
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If they made a better smarter game that allowed players to do what the really want and not have to go through artificial "grinding" to get there characters where they need to be to actually gone on a raid or whatever else is cool to do. WoW is popular, that is a fact. But it is far from a flawlessly designed game. When you compare it to what a human does as a say a good DM in a paper and dice game, it is extremely primitive.
Every wonder why you don't see a hero in a movie "grind"; why you never read about the 89 trolls that Gandalf killed. No you don't wonder because that would be stupid. They need to spend the money they are using suing a clever programmer to make better game design and drop the grind.
The point of the story was to display ILM data crunching power as impressive for a POST PRODUCTION house. Not "the greatest data center in the world". Compared to any other post production house, ILM is pretty darn impressive.
If M$ or anyone else ever made a "play once" anything, it would completely flop. Someone would get fired for spending money on such a stupid product. Noone in their right mind would do anything like this. If they did they are not thinking very clearly at all.