"Brown said he would rather hire a high-level World of Warcraft player than an MBA student from Harvard."
lolwut
it's no secret that some players can master games enough to help make them/their sequels, like daigo being currently employed at capcom as well as other evo veterans doing all sorts of things in the scene from games to tools.
but placing your bets on them over a graduated game designer is really stupid.
Great article. It's about time the genre expands to more than being powered by the FGC. Like it or not, the FGC, while doing absolutely great things for the genre, also limits it a lot. It makes it a niche area and makes for an average gamer very hard to excel without FGC playing a part.
I too, lament how VF fell into obscurity while games like Skull Girls and P4A became an instant hit, and the FGC did nothing about it (shows that the community is not mature enough to handle the genre). All in all, having a hivemind to reign over a gaming genre, and worst of all, to pander for it, is usually a very bad idea.
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