[INTERESTING ARTICLE; See Page 8] Discussion: Thoughts on Piracy

[the dark side]

i am not the best at explaining, no, i give you that. Frustration is the correct description as to how i feel, as often i do get frustrated at the fact i struggle to explain what the problem is to an NT (Neurologically Typical) audience, and yes, that does get me angry, compounded at my anger at the games industry because its stupid, outdated, obsession with a dying genre is stopping me from getting my own IP made, ive had dev interest, even publisher interest, but every time, its been shot down by the "marketing board" because its a "throwback" to the "pseudo modern" era and not a "modern AAA shooter".

i also get really angry when people (cough, look on the "marketing" thread, Cough) get nasty with me for repeating the terms "call of duty clone" etc, because i dont know how else to explain it without confusing people,. so i use that term because at least that way the whole forum knows what the issue is, people, if you want me to stop using those terms, tell me how else to explain it instead of getting nasty with me please!

dont worry about gaming though, we will get another hardcore, indie led era again soon, as i said, the big wigs took over and started to suck lots of money out before, back in the late 70s, and there greed resulted in a game getting so rushed out, it was unplayable (the notorious "E.T"), the resulting returns, lawsuits, and loss of revenue bankrupted the publisher, the wall street moneymen saw that there cashflow was drying up, panicked, floated the shares and shorted the stock and ran, the result was the 1983 games crash. the indipendant companies and the developers who survived kept it going with some pretty neat little RPG games, and gaming recovered so we got the glory era of the late 80s and early 90s, before gaming got massive again in the early 2000s, wich baught the big money men back on board, restarting the cycle of AAA gaming and money sucking, and greed, wich will, inevitably, lead to another crash within, looking at the state of todays mainstream industry, id say, the next 2 years, its just history looping itself.