Big Brother of Games

[Shinzon]

I read this here article at Kotaku:
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager....=0&cId=3167513

and I find it most interesting, I know I have been more than aware of corporate paid trolls for a while, but I wouldn't think that developers would openly jump into the fray, and admit their real identity on the forums, that seems to be very interesting.

[Uruz2012]

HAHA..

Imagine getting fired because someone said this "This Bell dude sounds like a douche".

I hope he was planning on moving to EA before that. Sometimes I think that companies take market research too seriously. Market research is the reason that so many games follow the same formula. If the early game creators had done market research then pong would never have been invented.

[Heliopios]

Originally Posted by Uruz2012

HAHA..

Imagine getting fired because someone said this "This Bell dude sounds like a douche".

I hope he was planning on moving to EA before that. Sometimes I think that companies take market research too seriously. Market research is the reason that so many games follow the same formula. If the early game creators had done market research then pong would never have been invented.

I agree, taking the public's opinion on a good game never goes anywhere in the ways of innovation.


Say that every game developer decided to make the same game as, say, Half Life when it first came out, and no one changed to any other genre because those types of games were so popular with the public that no game company would change, at risk of losing millions of dollars.


Though it does seem this is what's been happening, noting all the FPS games out there with no plot being released in the hundreds every year, people still try to change it up, and by that, I mean people like Peter Molyneux.