Words Of Wisdom on 08 January 2008
| ferret1603 said: @Words of Wisdom Sorry, but people simply don't do that. Most of the people I know with Wiis are 40+ and several don't even own computers. My Dad likes playing Wii games and I have to turn everything on for him and put the disc in, etc. There is no way on this earth he would be able to work out how to use an internet search engine (I doubt he'd even know what one was.) and search for a review. To your average person if it's not in their newspaper it doesn't exist. It has absolutely nothing to do with laziness, it's about gaming being a completely alien world. If I didn't know anything about the way reviews work I would assume anything above 5/10 is better than average because that's the way newspaper reviews work. With games it's clearly different. How the hell is a casual supposed to know that? |
I agree. Many people don't take the time to look or search for reviews.
It's much akin to buying a car.
You decide what car you want, read up on it, compare it to some other cars, go take one out for a test drive, and then decide if you want to buy it.
You decide what game you want, read reviews for it, compare it to similar games that are available, possibly rent it, and then decide if you want to buy it.
If you do none of that and buy it off impulse, then you may get a lemon. That goes for both games and cars. If people are lazy and don't actually put in the effort to look before they leap, they deserve to go splat at the bottom of the pit of stupidity.
