Jos Shinobi
Pro Hic Immortalis
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2012.12.12 20:10:00 -
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I believe the prevalent attitude of "console players are too shallow/uninterested/distractable/stoopidto like and support this game is not just insulting, but more than a little arrogant and ignorant. This opinion seems to stem from the belief that the major publisher's business strategy of pushing sequel after sequel as quickly as possible actually represents a console gamer's desire for the next best thing in place of the last best thing.
But a simple look at Halo disproves this. Halo was released in 2001 for the original xbox, the xbox360 was released just four years later. But even though the next generation of consoles had arrived and Halo's sequel had dropped, people still played it. In fact, the only reason people stopped playing it is because Microsoft killed the servers in 2010, a full nine years after its release. Nine years without any support, dlc, new content, etc. Would you still be playing Eve if it had never been patched or received updates?
Console players don't just up and suddenly quit a game they love to play. The publishers force us to give these games up. The reason the only people who play the first Modern Warfare anymore are all modder's and hack's is that Activision stopped all support when they started pushing MW2. It wasn't a lack of interest on the fanbase's part, it was the publisher fishing for more of our money.
As for being too complex, wtf? I'm not an idiot. In point of fact, the promised complexity is one of the reasons I went to the trouble of joining a clan and getting into the beta. I love the idea of this game and I know plenty of others who feel likewise. Not wanting to spend money, time, and effort on building the latest, greatest PC just to so you can rebuild it in six months because it can't play the latest game isn't stupid or indicative of a desire to avoid complexity. If it were, we wouldn't play console games, we'd be on our I-Phones. Neither is wanting a comfortable place to sprawl out while playing.
CCP isn't just trying to revolutionize the fps genre, they're trying to bring about a complete and utter redefinition of the current videogame sales strategy. If successful, they could guarantee the future of videogame consoles by lowering the price of triple-a games and limiting the huge costs of developing games by eliminating sequlitis and instituting progressive development instead.
It's PS3 exclusive for very good reasons. It's development is good for the industry and the consumer base. The gamer's are not too stupid to 'get' it. Those gamer's are ready for something on this scale and have been for some time.
It's not coming to PC, get over it. |