Effects of scare

by Ladbon

Gamasutra had a nice dissertation made by one of it’s users talking about what does make us scare.

Usually our gaming market is based on the current players at the moment and never on the potential new players we can create by just creating new sub-genres for games.

There is a shit ton of people(mostly older generation) that will live unfortunately way to long until death to just be ignored IMO.

People that love poetry, dark comedy, dry/British humor and so on. How can we not care about the people purposely trying not to play games cause they don’t want to learn the new media.

The way to invoke interest is losing it’s innovation in my opinion, we are creating the same game over and over again while huge companies can fill their AAA-studio coffers with tons of gold creating the new and improved worthless game.

Would it have been the worst to play Battlefield 1942 or Quake 1 for 10 years, really?

Counter Strike and Starcraft survived almost 10 years without ever really changing it’s game. The second installment of both games just put it up to date with draconian INTERNET laws that we think should exist while the old games were perfectly fine with what they had. That’s why they were so popular.

Things change, I get that but we are losing the market in a way I don’t like. VPN, piracy, copyright laws, INTERNET laws. The biggest anarchy that exists on the planet is slowly finding it’s boundaries being written and the gaming market is trying to cope with it. We are slowly but surely finding a nice and safe environment for every little legal activity there is out there. What happened to exploration ? the days of adventuring through the INTERNET are going away and one victim is the gaming market. Games like Soldat wont find anymore players, it will only attract the adventures that found it the first time.

I don’t really know what my point is with this post but what I think we need soon is a Renaissance within the gaming industry to revive it’s exploration because without it, the market will turn into a dystopia like the music and movie industry.