I think all this navel gazing is bullshit. Internet distribution is impossible without portal sites that people actually go to. People don’t use portals flat out, its just in our ADHD mindset.

Sadly Babbages will be with us in some form hocking Rainbow Six 72 : Magenta Shillegah long into my retirement.

Honestly most of the AAA uber graphic games are just show cases for the new graphics. They rarely justify the expense put into them whne it comes down to gameplay.

You mean “AI”.

It’s not the “star power” effect that is lacking it’s the basic supply and demand of creating a product with a wide enough appeal to earn the money to pay people.

I know many are just amazed at WoW’s customer base. Frankly, it’s for crap. Most, no the vast majority, of entertainment events in peoples lives last at most 3 hours once a week.

I know most don’t understand what I’m talking about so I’ll try and explain.

People want to be entertained and they want some finality to that entertainment right now. When online games finally understand that concept of finality, at weekly 3-hour increments, that online game will be a blockbuster like no other has been.

The idea of online games still favoring cat-ass, even though cat-ass design has been proven to be obsolete just sickens me. Some developer, some day, will finally figure out that the cat-asses of the world are ruining their profitability from a purely marketing standpoint.

Imagine people have two or three or four favorite games at the same time rather than one. What’s the value in having a crushing effect? You know the, “if you play X then you really have to give up on Y sooner or later due to progression limitations. You can’t play both games!” I digress.