I guess most if not all the people on these forums are dedicated gamers, enjoyed many games before the playstation came about, at the time when videogames had a bad image. It was this time that gamers such as you and me were a good portion of the overall market, videogames were created with dedicated gamers in mind. It wasn't just the games the magazines at the time were catered for us, written by people who have a passion for videogames for people with a passion for videogames, even the videogame shops were run by people who loved games and it showed. I had a few indie shops where i lived both where excellent one even had an arcade.
Fastforward a whole decade later and the situation is completely different, the casual gamer is by far a majority portion of the market. Times have changed, videogames have become acceptable, theres more money to be made out of videogames than ever. But with this success there comes a price, the videogames industy has lost its soul, most probably sold it for a quick buck. The whole industry are relying on people who don't give a toss about its fate, bandwagon jumpers who only play videogames because its the new cool, they don't care about much about the industry as long as there is a annual sequal to fifa street. So this is the future of videogames? swept up in casual gamer fever they have forgotton those who made the industry what it is today, those who supported the industry through thick and thin for many years, the dedicated gamer, gamers like us. It seems as if the industry sees us as a remanent of the gaming past, fossilised over the years, still buried under tons of 2D titles. They have forgotten our importance to the history of this industry.
Is it fair that we are no longer catered for in an industry we helped create? It seems as if no one wants to know us, few companies want to be our friends, sure they throw us a few scraps now and again in the form of a new shooter or a lazily done fighter, but no company wants to like us, they avoid us like a leper that is the bastard son of satan. Videogame shops have followed this route, they don't want to know us, they don't need us they stick copies of the new fifa outside their shops just as scared 14th century villagers would nail garlic outside their doors to scare off vampires. Every shop is the same, nothing diffrent, no passion for the industry, each clones of one another trying their best to be as non threatening as possible to mr mainstream. Again videogame mags have followed in the steps of the indusry, there are more than ever, however what has happened with the passion? where are the people who love games? each mag watered down so even a 10 yr old can read it, lots of pictures because people love seeing pretty in game shots. You would think that out of the tons of videogame mags on the shelves that one would cater for us, but no, each are a reflection of the industry as a whole, boring, unimaginative, immature, each trying to pull in buyers with cheap freebies, and half naked women.
Maybe i'm just getting old before my time, but do any one else feel this why? has the dedicated gamer been unfairly forgotten? are we being badly treated by a industry we have supproted more than most? or am i just mad? answers on a postcard please
Fastforward a whole decade later and the situation is completely different, the casual gamer is by far a majority portion of the market. Times have changed, videogames have become acceptable, theres more money to be made out of videogames than ever. But with this success there comes a price, the videogames industy has lost its soul, most probably sold it for a quick buck. The whole industry are relying on people who don't give a toss about its fate, bandwagon jumpers who only play videogames because its the new cool, they don't care about much about the industry as long as there is a annual sequal to fifa street. So this is the future of videogames? swept up in casual gamer fever they have forgotton those who made the industry what it is today, those who supported the industry through thick and thin for many years, the dedicated gamer, gamers like us. It seems as if the industry sees us as a remanent of the gaming past, fossilised over the years, still buried under tons of 2D titles. They have forgotten our importance to the history of this industry.
Is it fair that we are no longer catered for in an industry we helped create? It seems as if no one wants to know us, few companies want to be our friends, sure they throw us a few scraps now and again in the form of a new shooter or a lazily done fighter, but no company wants to like us, they avoid us like a leper that is the bastard son of satan. Videogame shops have followed this route, they don't want to know us, they don't need us they stick copies of the new fifa outside their shops just as scared 14th century villagers would nail garlic outside their doors to scare off vampires. Every shop is the same, nothing diffrent, no passion for the industry, each clones of one another trying their best to be as non threatening as possible to mr mainstream. Again videogame mags have followed in the steps of the indusry, there are more than ever, however what has happened with the passion? where are the people who love games? each mag watered down so even a 10 yr old can read it, lots of pictures because people love seeing pretty in game shots. You would think that out of the tons of videogame mags on the shelves that one would cater for us, but no, each are a reflection of the industry as a whole, boring, unimaginative, immature, each trying to pull in buyers with cheap freebies, and half naked women.
Maybe i'm just getting old before my time, but do any one else feel this why? has the dedicated gamer been unfairly forgotten? are we being badly treated by a industry we have supproted more than most? or am i just mad? answers on a postcard please
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