Guys, what makes you think he is talking specifically about EA? He uses "we" as in "we, the games industry."
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By the way, Voltaire's works aren't what I would refer to as the zenith of philosophical thought, nor are they a very good introduction to philosophy. Like you said, Candide is only relevant if juxtaposed with Leibniz's monadology and the state of society at the time.
I'd also rather read Thomas Hobbes before John Locke, personally.
The point of this tangent is, of course, to illustrate that familiarity with the literary and philosophical greats does not lessen the value of great storytelling in games. Only pretentious elitism does that.







