Quote:I too feel that a gamer-oriented convention would do much more good for the industry
Ah man, you still don't get it.(or you really do get it, but you're dissimulating for some reason)
The only reason video games became a viable form of entertainment is because they were looked down upon in the begining as "a novelty" or as "kiddy fare" and not taken seriously by the corporate casholes.
That has changed, however, to the permanent detriment of quality.
Any "gamer" convention that becomes popular will be infested with insiders, shills, and casholes faster than you can say "Pac-Man"
Mr. Koster is out of a Job. He's looking for a new one, preferably a big name IP which he can use to make another virtual world, without actually caring for the IP.
Yeah, The IP-Mythos of a MMORPG seems to be more of a pretext than actual content
Ron Obvious Jumps across the english channel,Eats a cathedral , Tunnels to Java, Runs all the way to Mercury, and finally Makes the Xbox360 a hit in Japan
Say hello to slews of paid-off game journalists, "official" shill magazines in the vein of early Nintendo Power, fake spam blogs, and employees posing as players on message boards. Nothing would be a trustworthy source of reviews anymore.
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Quote: I too feel that a gamer-oriented convention would do much more good for the industry
Ah man, you still don't get it.(or you really do get it, but you're dissimulating for some reason)
The only reason video games became a viable form of entertainment is because they were looked down upon in the begining as "a novelty" or as "kiddy fare" and not taken seriously by the corporate casholes.
That has changed, however, to the permanent detriment of quality.
Any "gamer" convention that becomes popular will be infested with insiders, shills, and casholes faster than you can say "Pac-Man"
The subject line of this post is all that needs to be said about this subject
When will a practical GNU HURD kernel for x86 machines be released?
Mr. Koster is out of a Job. He's looking for a new one, preferably a big name IP which he can use to make another virtual world, without actually caring for the IP.
Yeah, The IP-Mythos of a MMORPG seems to be more of a pretext than actual content
MS Execs clearly took their strategy from Monty Python's "How Not to be Seen"
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,Eats a cathedral , Tunnels to Java, Runs all the way to Mercury, and finally Makes the Xbox360 a hit in Japan
No, it's the Microsoft version of the Ron Obvious sketch:
http://www.orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/jump.h
Ron Obvious Jumps across the english channel
What Xbox360 presence in Japan?
Say hello to slews of paid-off game journalists, "official" shill magazines in the vein of early Nintendo Power, fake spam blogs, and employees posing as players on message boards. Nothing would be a trustworthy source of reviews anymore.
Dude, that's already the status quo.