The Right Click: I Hope You’re Happy!
With the news that Modern Warfare 2 has made $1 billion in profits, Activision must be laughing its head off. You, the gamer who said you’d boycott Modern Warfare for a plethora of reasons, has failed! Not only have you failed, you bought it as well! You gave in to your capitalist ways. You played it and actually found it quite enjoyable, even if the single player is short, the multiplayer is a rehash and there’s only minor differences between the sequel and the original.
Such profit results for Modern Warfare 2 show that the gamer is no longer in charge. The forum dweller or the blog poster (yes, that would include me too!) have no place in this games industry. You see, things have changed. You can have an opinion if you want, and you’re welcome to it, but the industry isn’t going to take your opinion and add it to there game anymore. They’ve figured out what you like; customization, guns, girls, awesome battle scenes, satisfying enough stories to pad out the reason why you’re shooting someone in the face.
Such delicious irony! The devil will be pleased!
The industry is no longer about the geek, it’s no longer about the dark corners of a mall where arcades sit waiting for you to touch them. Instead, somewhere along the line, games became cool. They became the norm. You can blame whoever you like; Nintendo for making the Wii, Sony for continuing to make their consoles an entertainment format, or Microsoft for making the fun filled Xbox, but the truth is that nowadays everyone plays games. Not everyone though complains if a feature is missing, or the PC version is shite. Or they’ve forgot this, or that, and so on.
So when Activision was been bullish now you know why. They knew perfectly well the complainers and so called boycotters would make no difference. Hell, even the Steam boycott community give in to the urge to play the newest shiny Modern Warfare. The first one was good, so why not the second? Just one little playthrough wouldn’t hurt! Before you know it you’re playing again and again, and enjoying it, and suddenly that boycott seemed like a totally daft idea, and who came up with it anyway? Oh there he is! Shooting you with an AK-47…
You should be glad really that its only Activision that’s taken up the mantle of being the “bad guy” of the games industry. Electronic Arts could just as easily do it as well, and may well do so given that there shareholders are complaining about losing money due to all the new IPs EA have been attempting at its expense for the last couple of years. Tiger Woods Golf 11, 12 and 13 here we come (despite the man becoming a Cheetah, ho ho! I’ll show myself out…)
So remember that when your putting up your protest against another sequel just a year after the last game, or a lack of features, or no dedicated servers, or no PC option settings (a nightmare situation to some, that may come true), there’s a thousand other people, and in some cases a MILLION other people, who don’t care and just want to shoot there friends in multiplayer. It’s no longer about you!
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