Macro Dude wrote...
The only thing in this article I didn't like was the statement about giving the fans too much control being the high road to disaster. Fair enough, but, with a book I'll never spend $60, and a book dosen't have DLC that you have to pay for, also, even though many people can read a book, you can't have a bunch of people sitting around reading the same physical copy of a book at the same time, (comparing to a mp) I think a video game which CAN be altered after the fact, and givin the the fact that a studeo really isn't in the business of losing money, fan control to a certin degree, should be paramont to keeping the fans comming back. At least that's my take on it.
Oh and thanks for the link Laterali, I did enjoy that artical. 
Videogames definitely are a different creature than literature. But I tend to agree with him, if you complelely bow to pressure from fans, the game would be an utter mess. Ashley's breasts would be 1990's porno size, Tali's hips would probably kill a man, and Shepard would probably be fist pounding and chugging beer.
The last thing I want is a bunch of fans putting too much input into a game. But there is such a thing as moderation, which these game journalists seem to forget about. To them, it's all or nothing, either we sit and eat everything the developers feed us with smiles on our faces, or we're ravenous dogs cutting into the game with gnashing teeth.
There's actually a middle ground, where developers say, "What would you like to see in a game?" Or "Where would you like to see this story go?" They gather some opinions, weigh them, find useful stuff, and use it and or tweak it to fit the game. Them using ideas for the game isn't curbing their artistic integrity, it's collaboration that creates a product more likely to sell, which no matter what they say, is their number one priority.
Out of all the different forms of entertainment, video games are best positioned to be fixed, altered, changed after release. They already have a way of implementing it through DLC. The only thing holding it back is the backwards thinking that changing it would somehow make them less of an artist.
I'm going on too long with this, and I'm sure there's a point in there somewhere......
And there are instances of people gathering around and reading the same book, It's called Oprah's Book Club, and it's just awful.....
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