Interesting Industry Quotes

[Seeria]

Couldn't help but laugh at this as it applies to the top games out there right now it seems.

We really just needed to make the game a lot more accessible to a much broader player base ... There was lots of reading, much too much, in the game. ... We wanted more instant gratification: kill, get treasure, repeat.
-- Nancy MacIntyre, senior director for SWG at LucasArts, quoted in the New York Times on Dec. 10, 2005

 

[JonDDA]

what kind of a game is Kill....loot...repeat....

/sarcasm on

CAN YOU IMAGINE THE REPLAY VALUE!! MAN!! amazing...

/sarcasm off

 

[frostydf2]

Sounds like every single MMORPG that I've played to date. Kinda pathetic how we the consumers actually expect a half-assed game, and have to lower our expectations.

 

[Daax]

play SWG and you'll see just how much that game applies to that quote. ugh...

 

[Solaren]

It's as if they are trying to destroy their own game. It's so very crude really to think that's all players want.