Are Single Player Games Like Newspapers?
There’s a lot of chatter going on about the death of print these days, and with it there’s been the usual death throes as those who once made a living by writing for it are putting their pens to paper (keyboards to screen?) to try and save it by writing long screeds that hope to wish away the future.
The always entertaining TechDirt has something to say on that subject, that is, I think, relevant to those who may not see the future of gaming that’s rapidly approaching:
The problem is that it’s not the reporting that’s attracting the community. It’s the community. For way too long, the newspapers have ignored or diminished the role of the community. They were forgetting that, in the end, it really is the community that’s their "product." They sell the attention of that community. But, for years, they had little to no competition in doing so. That meant they could basically ignore serving the community… and they did. Now that there are sites that actually do serve the community, people prefer going to them than the sites that treated the "community" like lower class riffraff to be kept away. Funny how that works.
Games have existed in a similar vacuum for the last twenty years, but the outlets for the old fashioned single-player experiences are growing smaller and smaller every day.
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