Post by Morreion on Jan 9, 2010 7:33:25 GMT -5
Justin Webb: A Twilight MMO: Why the Hate? (MMORPG.com)
Why the hate?
The wildly-popular Twilight series is largely a teen girl phenomenon, and most hardcore gamer forum dwellers are male. Many guys have visceral reactions to such things
And gamers are a very tough and jaded crowd.
You might remember back last June when the interwebs picked up on a tasty news morsel claiming that a Twilight MMO was in development. All the news sites carried the story. The peculiar thing to me was the response in the forums, which was almost entirely 100% negative. In fact, many commenters linked the existence of a Twilight MMO to a sign of an impending apocalypse - I concede that the metaphor is particularly apt if the release date becomes 2012. I suppose that the bile wasn't entirely surprising given the sites I frequent, but it was a reaction that was completely contrary to my own. Yeah, I'm gonna say it... I've always thought that a Twilight MMO is a really good idea.
It's out there now, and I stand behind this statement a million percent. And I'll go one farther...
It's fiscally irresponsible for any major publisher not to be actively considering how to exploit this bloated cash-cow of a license
It's out there now, and I stand behind this statement a million percent. And I'll go one farther...
It's fiscally irresponsible for any major publisher not to be actively considering how to exploit this bloated cash-cow of a license
Why the hate?
The wildly-popular Twilight series is largely a teen girl phenomenon, and most hardcore gamer forum dwellers are male. Many guys have visceral reactions to such things
And gamers are a very tough and jaded crowd.
