| Alterego-X said: Quoting stops here.
I don't have any opinion about your personality, I just pointed out that your "Malstrom interpretation" (LOL, Demotruk was right about the religious debate thing) makes no sense at all. Simplified version: Malstrom says: the current high tier/traditional/hardcore/cinematic games will disappear or become a niche, and Social/New Market will take over the gaming industry. The so called "casual games" are the first, lower tier games for the new market, and higher tiers of social/new market games will follow. You say: Malstrom is wrong because he believes that social/New Market/casual gamers will give up their values and start playing with traditional/hardcore/cinematic games, but it didn't happen.
The cinematic games will disappear because of their skyrocketing production costs, that doesn't result in extra consumers. They might stay a small niche, but now that that there is a more profitable New Market, they won't stay in the focus of the industry. Just like 2D platformers, that were once the leading genre, and surely there are people who still want them, but they are not relevant anymore.
BTW Did you read His Theory of Cycles article? |
Ah I think you're taking my words too serious 
but first: The difference between Malstrom and me is that I think "cinematic" games as we know them today might become a niche but basically those games cater to a specific audience, the competitive gamer if you want. And competitive thinking has always been important especially to male teenagers, so I doubt that games catering to this audience will dissappear. In the past genres that catered to this audience have been big and are now niche but we have other types of games that appeal to the same type of people now. Basically put I just doubt those new types of games will get "higher tier sequels". Or well, they will, but they will appeal to a different kind of person so we are not talking about swimming upstream in a technical sense. (Simply put the new gamers won't move upstream in my opinion) Sorry if I didn't make any sense but I wrote my comments around midnight and was just having some fun 
Oh and about your religious discussion comment: Rol and I were actually making fun of the use of words like "hardcore" and how confusing it is to talk about that topic. But you're probably too new to this site to know that hehe 
My original point was just that I think Malstrom terms are over-used hehe Then Rol came in and said I didn't know what hardcore means so we started confusing each other with the over-use of words like hardcore and upstream and then I realised that I have two great examples for the social gamer and the competitive gamer and wanted to tell him. I actually like Sean a lot, I've had great email discussions with him in the past, although I never answered his last email because I was too lazy hehe
