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How Gamers Could Destroy The Gaming Industry

AntDaGamer explores deep inside how gamers could destroy the gaming industry via there rants, fanboyism, and more.

SnakeCQC4155d ago

companies that don't make good games or games the consumers want should fail because they are obviously out of touch.

What is with ALL these end of gaming articles. Why do so many get approved?

wallis4155d ago

Yeah it's called capitalism. Consumers have the RIGHT to reject products they deem unsatisfactory and it isn't my fault if half these companies were great developers but terrible businesses. It happens. It happens in movies, inventions, television, art, science, music and just about everything else. Talented people who don't play the game right fall flat on their face it is not some evil exclusive to video games.

lfclee4154d ago

Well commented, where there is money to made the corporations that rule the world are there.

GSpartan7774155d ago (Edited 4155d ago )

I do not understand how these type of articles get approved either. Anyone who reads the article can see that the author is basically an angry individual and who doesn't understand some simple concepts. His definition of social gaming is not what it actually is. And saying that fanboyism is destroying the gaming industry is basically saying that you have no idea how business works and why games fail.

The industry is going under for way other reasons than this. Unrealistic benchmarks for sales coupled with ridiculous budget, dangerous risks, lack of quality, zero creativity, poor/no marketing, ignoring/abusing consumers, bad business decision, bad PR, bad service and not keeping up with a new generation of consumers.

Fanboyism is the last thing that will destroy this industry.

NexGen4155d ago

If crappy "journalists" haven't killed the industry, nothing will.

Please n4g approval people...stop approving these sub high school quality "journalism" pieces. It's an intellectual insult.

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tsn4155d ago

Games like CoD will destroy gaming.

BX814154d ago

LOL. I was just going to type... By buying COD!

Tetsujin4155d ago

Gamers don't destroy gaming; Fanboys do.

ACEMANWISE4155d ago

The author mentions three theories how gamers could destroy the game industry.

1) Social Gaming
2) Fanboyism
3) Income

Basically it comes down to three personal motives that drive an opinion away from the quality of a game. Though I agree the author is on the right track I believe it is part of a problem much bigger than this.

The author lists the overall problem as the first theory but the reasons are misinterpreted. Social gaming is the overall problem due to it's design. Under social gaming and it's effects there creates three theories on how gamers can destroy gaming.

1)Popularity (seems a better fit for his/her explanation)
2)Fanboyism
3)Income

The problem with social gaming is it is driven by too many distracting factors that have nothing to do with a video game's quality.

The followers buy games that the leaders have. Friends who have equal respect will buy games on each other's list. A gamer may buy a game because they feel everyone else is playing it. A group of people may buy a game because it has become a fashion statement...not because the game itself is good. Why? Well today's social gamer finds more value in who he plays with...not what he's playing.

Yet playing with friends is typically the lower level of the social hierarchy. Family has become the driving force this gen and it has been running this industry to a great extent. The problems still are largely similar. Games are purchased based on family members who can all play so already we are looking at age extremes. Children will cause the content to require an E rating and grandparents will cause the content to simplify. So quality isn't as important to this group as accessibility and universal acceptance are.

Social gaming and the socially driven gamer will destroy the industry in regards to quality that's true. But it will also collapse the industry when they start to lose interest. Remember that people aren't playing video games because they like video games anymore. They are playing them because of the people around them.

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