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According to the makers of video games, if don't play games online, you're a backwards piece of shit who doesn't deserve to live!
Well, sort of.
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Last night, the Churchill Club held a panel discussion featuring a few industry heavyweights to discuss the changing landscape of game design in light of an online world. The lineup gathered to discuss "The Era of Connected Gaming - An Inside Look At An Industry On Revolution" included Lars Butler, former vice president of global online for Electronic Arts and current CEO of the upstart TWN; Laurent Detoc, president of Ubisoft North America; Raph Koster, chief creative officer of Sony Online Entertainment; and Peter Moore, corporate vice president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business. The panel was moderated by GameSpot cofounder and senior vice president of CNET Networks' games and entertainment division, Vince Broady.
Addressing an auditorium filled with sharply dressed businesspeople, the luminaries engaged in a discussion spanning a multitude of issues facing the industry, from the impact of user-created content to end-user privacy concerns.
Broady started the conversation by asking the panelists what they thought "the connected era" meant. Moore answered with a rare response that did not begin with an in-depth explanation of an Xbox 360 selling point.
"Connected Games" Industry luminaries chat about the importance of online-enabled content in the gaming industry.
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"In the future, if your console isn't connected, it's no different than a laptop that doesn't connect to the Internet," Moore said. "It's an inferior experience and it really is a step backwards for the industry... Offline seems primitive at this point."
Koster went beyond simply calling offline games primitive.
"The entire video game industry's history thus far has been an aberration," Koster told the audience. "It has been a mutant monster only made possible by unconnected computers. People always play games together. All of you learned to play games with each other. When you were kids, you played tag, tea parties, cops and robbers, what have you. The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal."
Detoc and Butler weren't sold on the inevitable death of single-player games, with Butler borrowing an analogy that the entire crowd instantly understood, if the laughter was any indication.
"Linear entertainment in single-player is to media what masturbation is to sex," Butler said. "It'll always be there, but it is not the real experience."
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!
So, according to the Sony guy single player gaming is "abnormal". Yeah! Okay, so, um, you have a job because of this "abnormal" gaming, you asshole. I'm sorry, but I HATE online gaming. I've tried it, and it's not for me. I know tons of other people love it, and good for them. I have nothing against online gaming at all. If other people wanna do it, that's fine! Play away! I, rarely, play a game online with my Nintendo DS. But I haven't done that in like a month. But I guess I'm weird because I don't want to play a game online with some 15 year-old across the country who I don't know and is totally cheating.
Whatever.
Some games aren't meant for being online. There is no way to play a *real* RPG, you know, one that has a story, online. Because games like that don't have a story. They don't have an ending. My favorite games are the ones that have a fucking ending. I want to feel like I completed something. Not that I levelled my elf up to level 65 and have trekked through the new expansion pack or whatever. That's fine if people like that type of game. I don't. And I don't like hearing that single player games are a weird thing of past. Because if that's true, I will never buy another video game again.
I play games with other people. These people are called my friends. They are people I know by their name and not by Gmerboy68 or whatever. We play multi-player games in the same house. If I'm going to play an game with other people, that's who I'm going to play with.
I don't want anyone to think I'm bashing online gaming or making friends online or anything. All those things are fine and great. Most of the people who are reading this are friends I met online. My beef is that these video game exeutives need to realize that it is not "weird" to want to play a single player game. Wanting a game with a story and an ending is not "abnormal". Not every game works online. Most people think Halo 2 totally sucks because the single-player is crap. What is Microsoft spend all their time on? The Multiplayer. And that Resident Evil online game? Who still plays that? Do most Final Fantasy fans play the online game? No. They're all people who enjoy a good MMORG to begin with.
Do you see what I'm saying? The best thing about that panel was that there was no one there from Nintendo. Why? Because Nintendo realizes that there is still a great market for games with an old-school "abnormal" game.
You know, the kind you play by yourself.
So wake up gaming companies! You can't skate by on better graphics for ever. Sooner or later everyone's going to realize you're just churning out the same shit with a different background. So you better put more of your focus back on a game that has something original to it. That usual includes a story.
Well, sort of.
Here's the full article
Here's the important part from the article:
Last night, the Churchill Club held a panel discussion featuring a few industry heavyweights to discuss the changing landscape of game design in light of an online world. The lineup gathered to discuss "The Era of Connected Gaming - An Inside Look At An Industry On Revolution" included Lars Butler, former vice president of global online for Electronic Arts and current CEO of the upstart TWN; Laurent Detoc, president of Ubisoft North America; Raph Koster, chief creative officer of Sony Online Entertainment; and Peter Moore, corporate vice president of Microsoft's interactive entertainment business. The panel was moderated by GameSpot cofounder and senior vice president of CNET Networks' games and entertainment division, Vince Broady.
Addressing an auditorium filled with sharply dressed businesspeople, the luminaries engaged in a discussion spanning a multitude of issues facing the industry, from the impact of user-created content to end-user privacy concerns.
Broady started the conversation by asking the panelists what they thought "the connected era" meant. Moore answered with a rare response that did not begin with an in-depth explanation of an Xbox 360 selling point.
"Connected Games" Industry luminaries chat about the importance of online-enabled content in the gaming industry.
Watch | Download
"In the future, if your console isn't connected, it's no different than a laptop that doesn't connect to the Internet," Moore said. "It's an inferior experience and it really is a step backwards for the industry... Offline seems primitive at this point."
Koster went beyond simply calling offline games primitive.
"The entire video game industry's history thus far has been an aberration," Koster told the audience. "It has been a mutant monster only made possible by unconnected computers. People always play games together. All of you learned to play games with each other. When you were kids, you played tag, tea parties, cops and robbers, what have you. The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal."
Detoc and Butler weren't sold on the inevitable death of single-player games, with Butler borrowing an analogy that the entire crowd instantly understood, if the laughter was any indication.
"Linear entertainment in single-player is to media what masturbation is to sex," Butler said. "It'll always be there, but it is not the real experience."
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!
So, according to the Sony guy single player gaming is "abnormal". Yeah! Okay, so, um, you have a job because of this "abnormal" gaming, you asshole. I'm sorry, but I HATE online gaming. I've tried it, and it's not for me. I know tons of other people love it, and good for them. I have nothing against online gaming at all. If other people wanna do it, that's fine! Play away! I, rarely, play a game online with my Nintendo DS. But I haven't done that in like a month. But I guess I'm weird because I don't want to play a game online with some 15 year-old across the country who I don't know and is totally cheating.
Whatever.
Some games aren't meant for being online. There is no way to play a *real* RPG, you know, one that has a story, online. Because games like that don't have a story. They don't have an ending. My favorite games are the ones that have a fucking ending. I want to feel like I completed something. Not that I levelled my elf up to level 65 and have trekked through the new expansion pack or whatever. That's fine if people like that type of game. I don't. And I don't like hearing that single player games are a weird thing of past. Because if that's true, I will never buy another video game again.
I play games with other people. These people are called my friends. They are people I know by their name and not by Gmerboy68 or whatever. We play multi-player games in the same house. If I'm going to play an game with other people, that's who I'm going to play with.
I don't want anyone to think I'm bashing online gaming or making friends online or anything. All those things are fine and great. Most of the people who are reading this are friends I met online. My beef is that these video game exeutives need to realize that it is not "weird" to want to play a single player game. Wanting a game with a story and an ending is not "abnormal". Not every game works online. Most people think Halo 2 totally sucks because the single-player is crap. What is Microsoft spend all their time on? The Multiplayer. And that Resident Evil online game? Who still plays that? Do most Final Fantasy fans play the online game? No. They're all people who enjoy a good MMORG to begin with.
Do you see what I'm saying? The best thing about that panel was that there was no one there from Nintendo. Why? Because Nintendo realizes that there is still a great market for games with an old-school "abnormal" game.
You know, the kind you play by yourself.
So wake up gaming companies! You can't skate by on better graphics for ever. Sooner or later everyone's going to realize you're just churning out the same shit with a different background. So you better put more of your focus back on a game that has something original to it. That usual includes a story.