[Editor's note: This is a special edition of the Monthly Musings. CaffeinPowered and Aerox have a weekly column on the C-Blogs where they each have a counter-point to a specific subject. Caffeine here takes a look at why he thinks licensed games are good. For the bad take, just click this link or look right below. Who do you think had the better argument? -- CTZ]

This is the sixth part of a series of dueling editorials I have been doing with Aerox. This week’s topic is licensed games. You can view his point here.

With every major movie, book, and television show, it seems as if there must be some kind of accompanying videogame. While this may seem like a newer phenomenon, it’s really been going on since the days of the Atari 2600. What I am referring to are licensed games. These games are based on existing non-videogame related properties instead of being original creations.

While some might say a developer creating a licensed game is less creative, I would beg to differ. It is true that some of the worst games ever created have been of the licensed variety, but some of the best games as well also fall into this category, and we should be eternally grateful to those developers that have brought them to us.

[Editor's note: CaffeinePowered loves himself the MMOFPS genre. I have to admit that I never knew about this genre until I heard about Huxley. If you've ever been curious about it like me, then reading up on CaffeinePowered's posts will give you a better understanding of it all. And yes, long post is long ... but very informative! -- CTZ] 

Welcome to the third and final part of my retrospective looking into MMOFPS games. In this part, I will build from scratch an MMOFPS and examine choices developers need to make when designing the game. If you missed the first two parts, you can read part one here, and part two here.