@vinsanityv22 said:
God, I hope it doesn't sell 9 million copies in a single fucking day. That is so pathetic; that would mean that there are just far too many gamers out there who are fucking stupid, and don't play original games at all. They only play stuff that is up to 2, 3, 4 or beyond that literally everyone has been talking about for years. The most mainstream of the mainstream. Which means it's hurting so many other studios, with much better ideas and more fun/memorable games... and that's never funny.
Right, because people only play one game. Ever. Because I bought two copies of MW3 today (one for myself and one for someone else), it means I'm not also playing and finishing several other games every month and don't buy around fifty or more games per year, ranging from Civilization to Red Orchestra to Shadows of the Damned to Frozen Synapse to Heavy Rain to Mass Effect to Sykyrim and everything in-between and beyond.
You know what else sucks? The Beatles. They're just too popular and people who like them only like popular music. They're too dumb and simple to like good stuff like the bands you and I like, which nobody else has never heard of, because they're totally obscure (but when they're no longer obscure, we'll start to hate them, too, because we're totally edgy like that!).
COD games are a fun ride (though less fun some years than others) ride with a pretty solid and enjoyable multiplayer that you can get into without letting your brain dribble through your nose. It's perfectly okay to take a break from other games and have a mindless blast, if you like. Even if it does cut into your Braid fan-fic writing time.
Also, let's get over the idea that because one game is popular it's hurting all the other games. Music isn't dead, because there are some globally renowned bands that get shitloads of marketing and promotion. Good movies aren't dead, just because there's "Meet the Spartans" and twenty-two Harry Potter films. It isn't a finite resource. And, in fact, there's a good argument to be made that the cash-cow generates so much revenue that it makes other games possible that they might not have bothered to make. Or otherwise brings interest into the industry and potential franchises that wouldn't be there if not for this. Again, like movies, a lot of them fail miserably and you count on your few massive block-busters to compensate for the missteps (in revenue generating films; not quality of the film, since that isn't always tied together).
Now, don't take all of the above as me condoning these ridiculous Madden-style annual releases. That shit has to stop at some point, when you're no longer making significant changes from one year to the next.
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