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15 years ago
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I say this with 100% sincere seriousness when I say the creation of games like final fantasy are a CRIMINAL ACT. I mean, think about it. It's like selling drugs. Like you've created something for no purpose other than to drain people's lives away. Seriously, what do you get out of endless mindless events that drag on for 10-20 minutes that you wouldn't get from the same thing if it was only 2 or 3 minutes? NOTHING except that you deliberately waste months of your life as opposed to days. Doing the same crap over and over for days and days is for people that honestly just have no desire to live. It's virtual suicide.
Videogame production is my career. I believe wholeheartedly that what I do can someday be a very valid valuable contribution to the welfare of mankind. But the sad truth is, almost every game studio out there simply has no interest in taking responsibility for their role in society. Of course that applies to most games and not just RPGs, and with the addition of stuff like acchiiiveementsss sometimes I fee like I want to puke out my pancreas for ever being involved.
[Post-post clarification] Rest is good. That's why I think games are important... just not ENDLESS rest. everything in moderation
~Brady
Videogame production is my career. I believe wholeheartedly that what I do can someday be a very valid valuable contribution to the welfare of mankind. But the sad truth is, almost every game studio out there simply has no interest in taking responsibility for their role in society. Of course that applies to most games and not just RPGs, and with the addition of stuff like acchiiiveementsss sometimes I fee like I want to puke out my pancreas for ever being involved.
[Post-post clarification] Rest is good. That's why I think games are important... just not ENDLESS rest. everything in moderation
~Brady
I feel no regret. *chuckles*
Greetings,
RealZero
The way I see it, it's not any worse for you then watching TV. Which I don't do. xD So there's the trade off.
I can't tell you anything about American Idol or Lost, 'cuz I've never seen them.
But I can recite to you all the Pokemon there are. :D
UGGGGHHHHH I hate when ppl get that wrong and I totally did oooooops xD
If you want to hear an epic tale of an RPG absolutely ruining someone's life...
I guess it starts with me playing World of Warcraft. I didn't want to -- I wanted to play Final Fantasy XI instead. But I promised someone I'd give it a shot.
...I became addicted to the game.
I hadn't been addicted to a game, as in, unable to just turn it off and go do something else, in years.
The game actually kept me up almost all night at least once.
After a week, I bought the full version of the game, installed it, and then had a quiet moment with myself. This was not going to be a healthy gaming experience, and I knew it. So, I installed it, but then NEVER PLAYED IT AGAIN.
Anyone who tells you you can't quit a stupid addiction (as in, not chemical-based) cold turkey is lying to you. xD I totally did it.
...Fast forward about a year, my co-worker, who I got along with OK, but whose opinion on things often annoyed me, told me to try a game called City of Villains. I did. Essentially, it was World of Warcraft, for idiots. And considering the fact that World of Warcraft was Final Fantasy XI for idiots, THAT GAME WAS PRETTY MUCH FOR BABIES. So I told him, eh, it's nice, but WoW is better. He got all huffy-puffy about it, like, there's no way a game you suggest is better than a game I like, blah blah blah, and he tried it, played it for one night, and came back the next day telling me how much it bored him.
So I said, alright, obviously you're playing it wrong. Get on tonight and I'll meet you and show you how to play.
We did this.
One week later, HE WAS OBSESSED with the game, and was on EVERY SPARE MOMENT HE HAD.
And not only that, he wanted *ME* to be on, 100% of the time, with him. I'd come on for an hour or so every once in a while, but for the most part I stayed off. Finally, once again, I just never signed on again, and I haven't since.
For the next 3 years.
3 years, my friend.
That co-worker of mine came in every day, and for two hours or more, would recount to me his journeys in the game the night before.
He would tell me how he plans to make his character awesome.
The raids his guild was going to go on.
EVENTUALLY HE EVEN WHINED TO ME, LIKE A GIRL, ABOUT GUILD DRAMA.
For three years I listened to him talk my ear off about a game I didn't even play.
And it affected his work.
He never did A DAMN THING.
All day he'd be sitting at the PC, looking at strategies for the game, instead of designing plush (which was our job).
He would give ME all his projects, so he could read up on Warcraft shit.
He would talk to me about how his family, friends, and girlfriend were annoyed at how much he played the game.
And the best part is, he'd continue to tell me, through all of this, that my love for Final Fantasy/Zelda/etc was sick and that I had a problem. (He was a massive hypocrite, to the point where I couldn't believe he couldn't see it himself)
You can see, I hope, how that would get AGGRAVATING after a while. xD
Well, his health actually started to fail because of the game. He was a hippie of sorts, was anti-caffeine, but began drinking coffee because the game would keep him up all night. He was becoming less fit, from sitting at the PC for HOURS on end, hell, maybe even ALL DAY on the weekends.
And our bosses definitely noticed a decline in the work he turned in. When the company had to let some of us go, even though he had been there longer, and was (in my opinion) a better artist than me, THEY FIRED HIM. In a time when jobs were near impossible to find.
So because he had no sense of self control*, World of Warcraft literally ruined his life.
I do feel vaguely responsible, because I showed it to him, but I didn't know he had an addiction problem (later, another co-worker of mine told me that it was well known in the office that he had a problem with addiction to video games...oops!), and I thought he could control himself the way I (apparently) can.
*I do partially blame the game itself -- I'm not sure what it is about Warcraft, but it IS incredibly addicting.
I later began to play Final Fantasy XI, and at no point did I become helplessly addicted, in the way I did with WoW.
What happened with me and WoW was not something I was comfortable with (I don't like being addicted to a game), so I had to leave it. Apparently, some people can't just quit, and for them, a game like Warcraft is A SERIOUS PROBLEM.
long reply is long.
sorry Nyaasu is sorry. D:
Maybe I should have expanded on my rant before posting?
I am right now on it, even though I have been wanting to play video games all day.
...So...if you think about it...on the addiction scale... for me, Internet > ALL GAMES. xD
...Scary. o.0
But the internet makes me draw, too...so...I mean, that's good, right? xD
Some people just aren't mean to be productive. We should be glad we live in a society that can afford so much freedom and leisure.
I mainly play final fantasy or Pokemon games...or monster raising games..yeah. o_0
I'm not exactly addicted to them though. I've had some people get pissed at me 'cuz I didn't finish some part in a game and they called me lazy and I was like " LOL what?"
8|;;;;
I'm slow at beating games 'cuz I don't let them run my life. LOL
As a fellow developer in training, I get the despair though. And it is tough to create content where free will is the ultimate judge and motion. Yet....yet....WES NEED A PAYCHECK! OUR EQUIPMENT NEEDS POLISHING!