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urgh. And people wonder why I'm so miserable sometimes.
"if it gets no attention they'll stop making them, it's simple really."
I disagree. Those article are not written for us, but for the dwindling masses of aged middle classes. So long as they have that audience (and it won't last), they will continue. We don't factor into it at all, though I believe Giles may have been trying to flame us.
Who the hell are the "Britsh" ?
Real people read The Guardian. That is all.
Their agenda is to sell their worthless rags. In a world where the internet and games grab more attention, they clearly see game as the enemy, just like the film and music industries.
And because the games industry has no real stars like the film industry, the press can get away with this kind of character assasination more. This is why games are such an easy target.
Its at times like this that our industry need to grow some fucking balls and stand up for us and itself.
Do you think that fucker Murdoch, would let his tv and news papers be threatened by such crap news?
These people are beyond reason and we shouldn't give them any air time, leave them and let them do their worst.
Cowboy does have a point. If this kind of attention were directed at the music/movie industries the publishers would have legal proceedings being pushed through the letterbox before the story even went to press. The games industry however seems happy for all this negative attention and the way it's customers are portrayed - they're almost as bad as the press at times.
I think the reason those papers do so well isn't because it provides information to a certain group of people. It's because it's basically a "prism" into the readers own opinion. No one watches Fox News for insight. They watch it to validate their own opinions on topics they know very little about.
These media outlets basically say, "Give us money and we'll let you live in your comfortable lie."
Title typo sorted ;)
Cheers for the mention Jim :)
My only comfort is that senile old fucks that write and read this shit will die before us (apart from me: being Scottish means I'll probably die of old age at 42). Our parents' generation bought us our first games and some of them play games themselves (my mum and dad own a PS3 and DS). Once they're old enough to complain to the newspapers, video games will be the least of their concerns.