Procrastinato said:
Most artists make art for cereal boxes. I'm not denying that. And also, the talented artists? They don't make cereal box art. If someone gave them a serious commission to make some... maybe they'd do it, or maybe they'd walk off. Without the big money, you think the talented artits will do it at all? You're basically saying "The Wii provides work, thus dev teams should be grateful". I'm calling BS on that. You can hire newbies for cheap, and rake them over the coals to work on Wii factory churn, sure. No one is going to be able to twist a talented dev's arm into making Wii stuff though, without some serious investment -- which, if you've been following the news, isn't something that happens on the Wii. The Wii is oh-so-cheap for the publishers to make games on. I wonder why... |
Please, if the developers want to be "artistic" why are they working at a business? Why don't the just make games for themselves like people used to do? Having a job and doing exactly what you want, whenever you want to are two mutually exclusive things. The average person seems to know this, but game developers don't. They're selfish.
"Pier was a chef, a gifted and respected chef who made millions selling his dishes to the residents of New York City and Boston, he even had a famous jingle playing in those cities that everyone knew by heart. He also had a restaurant in Los Angeles, but not expecting LA to have such a massive population he only used his name on that restaurant and left it to his least capable and cheapest chefs. While his New York restaurant sold kobe beef for $100 and his Boston restaurant sold lobster for $50, his LA restaurant sold cheap hotdogs for $30. Initially these hot dogs sold fairly well because residents of los angeles were starving for good food and hoped that the famous name would denote a high quality, but most were disappointed with what they ate. Seeing the success of his cheap hot dogs in LA, Pier thought "why bother giving Los Angeles quality meats when I can oversell them on cheap hotdogs forever, and since I don't care about the product anyways, why bother advertising them? So Pier continued to only sell cheap hotdogs in LA and was surprised to see that they no longer sold. Pier's conclusion? Residents of Los Angeles don't like food."
"The so-called "hardcore" gamer is a marketing brainwashed, innovation shunting, self-righteous idiot who pays videogame makers far too much money than what is delivered."
