eventhoug, there are may many designers would talk many valueable things, like longasc said blizzard staff,they
would not talk about their work or their designs. but we all know that, bilizzard alway are very secrective, like starcraft when know this game when the game in testing already. the reasons for that i think could be staff make
some secreted contrast with the company.

also , i strongly agree longasc’s idea about that mmo-games need much money for getting ideas, if the designer can
get ideas by free from their bolgs is pretty good.

but the difficult thing is that how to select a good designer’s bolgs, when we focus a game designer’s bolgs for one
month or longer, then we find that all things are useless, it’s so bad for the wasted time.

“You can have your anonymous pirate name back when you leave the industry or post on an unrelated forum.”

Lol. Not always. Sometimes they take your name as corporate property.

Not everyone with talent to design games is working in that industry; it’s arrogant and foolish to believe anything else. If you stop to consider the terrible reimbursement and lousy working conditions endemic to the industry (thank you, ea_spouse), it should be obvious that quite a lot of people have been turned off from something they might have enjoyed and been skilled at. Some of them might choose to blog about it, and some of those blogs might have some good ideas in them. Again, Sturgeon’s Law applies; find the 10% that isn’t crap. Some people who don’t design games for a living still have things to contribute.

Further, not everyone currently working to design games, and certainly not everyone who’s ever previously worked to design games, is incredibly skilled at it. There are some truly stupid design flaws that have sunk games, even AAA titles in the last year, that make this point blatantly obvious: some people who design games for a living shouldn’t be.

For myself, I don’t blog because I expect people in the industry to be swept away by my insight. I blog because it’s a subject that’s interesting to me and I like to write. My blog isn’t lessened by the number of people making kickass games who don’t read it. And if somebody does read it and laughs at it, then hey, I brought some laughter into the world. I can’t help but think that’s better than manufacturing negativity based on ivory-tower elitism, though the latter approach does get more page hits.

@Scott – AAAAAAAAAAAARG. You SUCK. Make an anonymous account to post? NO. NONONONONONONONO. First, players will always figure it out eventually, and then there is Drama. Second, the mods figure it out immediately, because it says EA or Sony or whatever in the identifying line that doesn’t display to users, and the mods will either rat you out OR be unable to resist bragging about the caliber of lurker at their board.

No. If you work for the industry, and are posting on industry related boards, you use your real name, or put your real name in your sig. You cannot go all that wrong being aboveboard and honest, assuming you are not a full metal moron.

You can have your anonymous pirate name back when you leave the industry or post on an unrelated forum.

J. :

Arkazon :
But Scott….don’t you blog fairly often? *cough*

Historically, he does it a lot more when he’s about to be unemployed.

Vultures already circling his job.