Once again, Don nails it best
Don is/was a mentor to me, and this post about American Idol brings to mind what I saw in my fellow students when I went back to school 3 years ago to finish my degree.
Scores of young men, all eager to work in the computer game industry, all of them certain they had the next big idea for a game ("It's almost exactly like GTA/MDK/Halo but..."), and all of them convinced that a few years of school and a piece of paper would lead to riches untold.
Idiots. Every one of them.
The next big electronic game will NOT be just like a previous game. Doom, SimCity, StarCraft, hell, even Pac-Man were all originals. Okay, Doom was based on Wolfenstein 3d. But it had an original means of distribution. How many other games before Doom had free, playable demo? Exactly.
The game industry right now is where the web was 10 years ago. It's the new gold rush. And just every gold rush before it, a few people will get rich, but most will just end up broke.
Scores of young men, all eager to work in the computer game industry, all of them certain they had the next big idea for a game ("It's almost exactly like GTA/MDK/Halo but..."), and all of them convinced that a few years of school and a piece of paper would lead to riches untold.
Idiots. Every one of them.
The next big electronic game will NOT be just like a previous game. Doom, SimCity, StarCraft, hell, even Pac-Man were all originals. Okay, Doom was based on Wolfenstein 3d. But it had an original means of distribution. How many other games before Doom had free, playable demo? Exactly.
The game industry right now is where the web was 10 years ago. It's the new gold rush. And just every gold rush before it, a few people will get rich, but most will just end up broke.
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