KungKras said:
MontanaHatchet said:
For one thing, his site isn't very big at all. If he's bragging about site growth, he better hope that no one actually bothers to look up any facts. Second off, is he really complaining that the game industry is called the game industry? It's the same as the film industry or music industry. It's a series of companies competing with each other for consumer interest, hence, an industry. Yes, they do care about profits. That's why they compete for our dollar. We give them money. It's not like they started caring about money and then decided that the people giving them money didn't give them money. Small internet followings about the lack of LAN in Starcraft 2 and his really low traffic rank aren't evidence of much. And it seems to me that the gaming population is growing, not shrinking. Frankly, I don't want the destruction of the game industry. Sure, it's not perfect, but it provides lots of enjoyment to hundreds of millions of people around the world, and it's growing all the time. And since it's still a fairly young medium, there's tons of room for growth. Thousands of people have jobs in the gaming industry, and a lot of money is generated because of gaming. I'm sure this was a nice read, but a lot of the things he said were just terrible. |
The ame industry isn't just imperfect, it's a terrible industry. If it died and a new industry rose from it's ashes with companies like Nintnedo and Blizzard making games that strive to live off off lasting appeal instead of new technology and hype, would the game industry we have today really be missed? No it wouldn't, gamers deserve better.
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How is the game industry terrible? If it was so bad, I seriously doubt we'd all be sitting here and complaining about it. We'd have moved on to other forms of entertainment. But the reason we're even on a site about videogames (much less complaining about them) is because it's such an enjoyable medium, and it continues to pull us in. Call the industry terrible all you want, but they produce games, and the games are great. There are great new games coming out all the time. Not every new game is going to be legendary or have incredibly long lasting appeal, but that's been the case in every generation so far. The reason we haven't seen classics like Tetris or Pac-Man lately is because these games came out at a time when the game industry was small, and great games stood out a lot more. And they've managed to live on because of new iterations and remakes. Modern series can do the same.
