Squilliam on 30 August 2008
| Sky Render said: For a man whose slogan is "make fun, not war", you certainly like to make war, Squilliam. Also, I sense severe hypocrisy in your claims and statements. You say Malstrom does no fact-checking and makes strawman arguments, then you make a claim that clearly has no fact-checking at all and is a strawman argument that goes counter to all logic ("movies and games don't usually make a profit"; only a poor business keeps doing something that doesn't make them a profit). You criticize his writing style as pointless, yet your own writing serves no purpose save to incite needless debate (which is hardly a valued contribution). You complain that he's too verbose, but you posts walls of text in response to him. Perhaps you should consider looking at what you do before you criticize what he does... |
Its commonly understood that creative works follow something of the order of an 80/20 rule, 20% of work in creative fields will net you 80% of the profit. It is also commonly known that most movies do not make a profit, nor do most games. You're failing to understand that this business isn't about the 70-80% of games that fail, its the 20% of games which succeed which more than make up for the ones that don't.
Btw, I hardly write more than a few paragraphs. I barely even flesh out my arguments. Furthermore this is a forum, debates are part and parcel of its existance.
P.S I wrote a few lines without a personal attack, you might try to not attack the poster next time yourself.
Tease.
