Modifié par slimgrin, 04 septembre 2011 - 03:18 .
The Escapist article: "BioWare co-founder says RPG's are becoming less "Relevant"
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Posté 04 septembre 2011 - 03:17
slimgrin
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I think video games are becoming less relevant. Top that one, Bioware.
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Posté 04 septembre 2011 - 03:35
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I guess that's their excuse for making a poor game.
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Posté 04 septembre 2011 - 03:41
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RPGs are not becoming less relevant to the game industry. Bioware, however, has become less relevant to RPGs.
That's not fair. Bioware isn't really bioware any more. Bioware is EA games now, and EA games has NEVER been relevant to RPGs.
EA is simply not capable of producing good RPGs. Their corporate culture forbids it. All of EAs games are based on the premise that gamers are mouth breathing morons. That's their audience. It's a huge audience and they serve it well. They make shooters, racing games, and sports games. They don't develop games, they just repackage the same games over and over again and the drooling masses buy them. Most people are, after all, idiots. If you want to sell the maximum number of units of anything you need to cater to idiots.
Here's the simple truth that EA just doesn't get...
Idiots don't play RPGs.
It's not complicated. EA sees this thriving niche market and they see dollar signs. They want a piece of that pie and they buy it, and EA groupthink takes over...
We can broaden the appeal of the genre by dumbing it down, and we can apply the same techniques to RPGs that we've learned producing shooters (racing games, sports games, whatever) to cut production costs. Sure, we may loose a few RPG snobs, but the mass market will gobble it up!
Then when DA2 falls flat on it's face the simple reason STILL evades them. They announce that the sales are flat because RPGs are "less relevant".
That's a steaming pile of bovine dookie. The reason EAs RPGs are falling flat is because they're trying to broaden their market at the expense of the existing fan base. They are trying to move RPGs out of it's established niche and into the mass market.
What EA simply refuses to understand is that the mass market is composed primarily of idiots, and IDIOTS DON'T PLAY RPGs!
That's not fair. Bioware isn't really bioware any more. Bioware is EA games now, and EA games has NEVER been relevant to RPGs.
EA is simply not capable of producing good RPGs. Their corporate culture forbids it. All of EAs games are based on the premise that gamers are mouth breathing morons. That's their audience. It's a huge audience and they serve it well. They make shooters, racing games, and sports games. They don't develop games, they just repackage the same games over and over again and the drooling masses buy them. Most people are, after all, idiots. If you want to sell the maximum number of units of anything you need to cater to idiots.
Here's the simple truth that EA just doesn't get...
Idiots don't play RPGs.
It's not complicated. EA sees this thriving niche market and they see dollar signs. They want a piece of that pie and they buy it, and EA groupthink takes over...
We can broaden the appeal of the genre by dumbing it down, and we can apply the same techniques to RPGs that we've learned producing shooters (racing games, sports games, whatever) to cut production costs. Sure, we may loose a few RPG snobs, but the mass market will gobble it up!
Then when DA2 falls flat on it's face the simple reason STILL evades them. They announce that the sales are flat because RPGs are "less relevant".
That's a steaming pile of bovine dookie. The reason EAs RPGs are falling flat is because they're trying to broaden their market at the expense of the existing fan base. They are trying to move RPGs out of it's established niche and into the mass market.
What EA simply refuses to understand is that the mass market is composed primarily of idiots, and IDIOTS DON'T PLAY RPGs!
Modifié par UrkOfGreyhawk, 04 septembre 2011 - 03:41 .
#529
Posté 04 septembre 2011 - 07:12
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When games like Deus Ex HR get labelled rpgs it may explain why the original comments were made. Don't get me wrong its a great game but its not an rpg.
You don't shape the character of Adam Jensen, you end up with almost all the upgrades so there's no really different builds, the conversations are fantastically well done but are more like a path to a goal rather than a way to shape his character, and the differing ways one can approach combat are really no different to quite a lot of FPSs.
You don't shape the character of Adam Jensen, you end up with almost all the upgrades so there's no really different builds, the conversations are fantastically well done but are more like a path to a goal rather than a way to shape his character, and the differing ways one can approach combat are really no different to quite a lot of FPSs.
