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Post by SYN_Jedders on Feb 3, 2011 12:28:47 GMT
Found this article over at IGN about Josh Olins (Treyarch developer) take on what the biggest threat to gaming development is. Funny we were talking about the exact same thing in private area....
"Community Manager Josh Olin made the comments in an interview with NowGamer. When asked what the biggest problem facing the games industry today was, he said “as a community manager who lives in the media or social media world every day, I think the social culture of video games is moving in a more negative direction as technology and social media continues to grow. Rather than growing with it, the trend seems to be devolving.”
“More and more gamers seem to forget what this industry is all about,” he adds, saying “It’s a creative industry – the most creative form of entertainment in existence. Too many developers who try new things are getting burned by “pundits” and angry entitled fans who look to be contrarian, sometimes simply for the sake of being contrarian. The only thing this attitude aims to achieve is stunt that creativity and innovation even further, which is something that no rational gamer looking to be entertained would want to do.”
Spot on I say!!
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Post by SYN_Mrwolf on Feb 3, 2011 13:53:34 GMT
True.
But I think we saw this phenomenon more often in history. Creativity wil find it's way.
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Post by SYN_][_Karma_][ on Feb 3, 2011 14:18:28 GMT
i'm sorry to say but i have to disagree somewhat
most game publishers/developers are bringing it down on themselves ... releasing unfinished ... unstable and buggy games ... then take months to make it semi playable in a series of patches that often breaks more things than fixes them ...
if that fails they'll just release a new installment of the franchise every year
sure there are those that moan just to moan ... but i hardly think that is the biggest threat ... if they (publisher/developer) have a good product and fully support it there will always be a loyal community build around it
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