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Site Navigation Main    News    Forums Games    Games Database    Top 100    Release List    Support Files Features    Reviews    Previews    Interviews    Editorials    Diaries    Misc Download    Gallery    Music    Screenshots    Videos Miscellaneous    Staff Members    Privacy Statement   UO: Dumbing down of the gaming industry (PC: MMORPG) | Posted by Rendelius @ Wednesday - February 05, 2003 - 02:27 - Top | Game Info | Rate this game | Homepage Our reader will pointed us to an interesting editorial at UnknownPlayer: Dumbing down the gaming industry. The auhor talks about how the games get more and more mainstream and how they have lost a lasting appeal this way. He illustrates that with the changes that happened to Ultima Online. You don't have to agree on each and every point he brings up. but it is an interesting article for sure. Here's a little bit of proof: UO is just one example of the dumbing down of the game industry. New developers skip the entire "dumbing down process" and jump right onto Dumb. This way they can maximize profits as long as possible. All that is necessary for a new game to be successful is a few splashy graphics and some cyber heroine. Thought has left the arena completely, replaced by marketing schemes. All that's left of new games is using sellable formulas for development, another new game with feature X and graphics Y. My advice is that developers should please their fans and not try to make everyone happy. 100 newbies are not worth 10 loyal players.

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