Holy One
Quiet.Storm
Frater Adhuc Excessum
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Posted - 2011.06.27 15:35:00 -
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Edited by: Holy One on 27/06/2011 15:36:54
 Originally by: Apollo Gabriel
watching now ...
it is clear the nerds lost control of the game market, idiots willing to spend money for stupid **** have won.
I don't want free to play, I want one rate for my game, and no more purchasable advantage.
P much in this regard. Yeah. I think the best analogy I can think of is breakfast cereal. Breakfast cereal has practically no inherent nutritional value after processing. It is essentially dehydrated, pressed, cut and shaped cardboard. They then spray it with vitamins and coat it in sugar and sell it as convenience food. Kids shovel it down by the metric tonne every year. They make 300% profit on it.
Nobody even remembers what the **** people ate before cereal now.
Nobody cares.
I think its just an inevitible 'remains of the day' scenario whereby intellectual and largely socialist leaning geeks created stuff primarily for satisfaction and social purposes and secondarily as businesses (and usually at first only with the intention of facilitating more awesome) but, sadly, eventually, have to grow up.
Now the world has changed sadly. Making money is steak sauce. Nobody knows why or what people did before capitalism took over every waking moment of everyone's life. Or even why we need more and more when we already have 'enough'. Sociopathy seems to be the new measure of 'added value' in life.
The EA presentation there pretty much is a shining example of a business plan where the actual 'game' is nothing more than 'value added product'.
Thankfully, EvE has never been like that. If it started out today it might have become that but it didn't and the people running it and the people who made it so amazing appreciate that. I think.
Hilmar is a creative geek. A damn good businessmen too it seems, but I don't think he's at all like the MBA sociopaths who see nothing but $$ signs.
Maybe I am wrong. But I don't think so. *shrug The culture of CCP the 'atmosphere' of EvE as harsh and not idiot friendly. The fact that for most of it's life-cycle it has been steadily growing in complexity not becoming steadily lower brow and more mainstream etc. All indicate to me that EvE is a 'vision' still to those who matter. Oddly enough the fact Iceland is a small insulated culture and that CCP is not American or American run plays a big part there.
BBQ makes me hungry for more... |