To be honest, I don't like Wow but I do like the idea of a massive, shared, online gaming experience. I also, though it's increasingly difficult in recent years, love the tone and feel of Star Wars, I spent long enough playing the damn pen and paper RPG.
Whilst I'd love to be able to give into my cynicism and assume everything coming out is going to be a cloned version of whatever sold well last year - I still think I'm within my rights to hope for something different, incredible and unexpected. Something that I'll love as much as MUDS from back in the day, something that, for me, will replicate a shared role playing experience.
So when something feels increasingly disappointing and unimaginative I can only feel disappointed. When the defence to these comments by EA is to list what sounds like a WoW feature list, when WoW terms get used when describing the demo to journalists, it all just feels like a failed chance to beat WoW. They may all turn out to be untrue and I'd love it if the game did do something incredible but right now it doesn't feel that way.
And as some people have already mentioned - the reason why these comments are important isn't because this is someone who is highlighting the game experience to gamers. Its because of the vast investment of money, time and effort into this project. This is a money man explaining possible profit problems to investors who've never played a game in their life. What matters is if they start to worry ahead of the launch.
No matter how good the experience is for some, this game is practically an industry in itself. If investors start to worry then it might be a very short lived cottage industry. So on the one hand there's the argument about whether this will be a good game on the other there's whether this is a good financial investment. Those two things aren't the same thing.
So I'm hoping for a great game, I'm disappointed with what I've seen but if people don't want to keep pumping money into the game it's not going to matter - it'll just slowly tail off.
Whilst I'd love to be able to give into my cynicism and assume everything coming out is going to be a cloned version of whatever sold well last year - I still think I'm within my rights to hope for something different, incredible and unexpected. Something that I'll love as much as MUDS from back in the day, something that, for me, will replicate a shared role playing experience.
So when something feels increasingly disappointing and unimaginative I can only feel disappointed. When the defence to these comments by EA is to list what sounds like a WoW feature list, when WoW terms get used when describing the demo to journalists, it all just feels like a failed chance to beat WoW. They may all turn out to be untrue and I'd love it if the game did do something incredible but right now it doesn't feel that way.
And as some people have already mentioned - the reason why these comments are important isn't because this is someone who is highlighting the game experience to gamers. Its because of the vast investment of money, time and effort into this project. This is a money man explaining possible profit problems to investors who've never played a game in their life. What matters is if they start to worry ahead of the launch.
No matter how good the experience is for some, this game is practically an industry in itself. If investors start to worry then it might be a very short lived cottage industry. So on the one hand there's the argument about whether this will be a good game on the other there's whether this is a good financial investment. Those two things aren't the same thing.
So I'm hoping for a great game, I'm disappointed with what I've seen but if people don't want to keep pumping money into the game it's not going to matter - it'll just slowly tail off.
