| sales2099 said: I do find that the more invested a gamer is in the gaming industry, via obsession with their online accomplishments, the more "lacking" they are in the real world, as gaming can be used as an escape mechanism for the real world. The coolest poster or most skilled online gamer that logged hundreds of hours more then you.....chances are you are more successful when the computers/consoles are turned off. |
There is demands being placed on the industry by a core audience, plus a resentment of other entertainment and art mediums for having a degree of respect that it has, that has there being a HUGE push to do more and more movie-like experiences, to be able to gain respect. And people turning to it more and more, who live on it, do expect it to be a fulfillment of lack in their own lives. And you can take my rant here as partly self-contradictory, and also nail me on hypocrisy if you like, but I was trying to get out what I saw as issues, and maybe missed some. If I take a step back and look at everything, I then see more and more things, on their own, I don't like. This impacts me somewhat also because I actually do game design, and need to find ways to try to make a living from doing this.
I guess what you wrote also can end up also being an issue with the whole backlash against "casual" players. People who do have other things to do, are attempted to be reached by the videogame industry, and game they liked are both bashed for being "casual" stuff, and also the attempt to appeal to the larger market ends up resulting in content in games being not as appealing to hardcore players.
