We are formless. We are the very discipline and morality that gamers invoke so often. How can anyone hope to eliminate us? As long as video games exist, so will we. Don't you know that our plans have your interests - not ours - in mind? The birth of three dimensional entertainment was completed late last century. As a result, the evolution of game design lay open to us. We started with simple geometry, but in the end we achieved near photorealism itself.
But, there are things not covered by photorealism.
Human memories, ideas. Culture. History. Polygons don't contain any record of human history. Is it something that should not be passed on? Should that information be left at the mercy of nature? We've always kept records of our lives. Through words, pictures, symbols... from tablets to books... But not all the information was inherited by later generations. A small percentage of the whole was selected and processed, then passed on. Not unlike genes, really.
But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumors about petty issues, downgrades, slander... all this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. It will only slow down gaming progress, reduce the rate of evolution. You seem to think that our plan is one of censorship. What we propose to do is not to control content, but to create context. The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards development of convenient half-truths.
Just look at the strange juxtapositions of morality around you.
Billions spent on yearly installments of games where you murder other humans.
Criminals have more digital rights than legitimate consumers.
Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations are made to revive dead, bloated franchises.
Everyone grows up being told the same thing. Be nice to other people... but beat out the competition!
You're special. Believe in yourself and you will succeed. But it's obvious from the start that only a few can succeed.
You exercise your right to post and this is the result. All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The untested truths spun by different interests to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems. Everyone withdraws into their own small, gated community threads, afraid of the larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever "truth" suits them into the growing cesspool of NeoGAF at large. The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in "truth".
And this is the way gaming ends. Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
We're trying to stop that from happening. It's our responsibility as a publisher. Just as in genetics, unnecessary information and memory must be filtered out to stimulate the evolution of the medium. Who else could wade through the sea of garbage you people produce, retrieve valuable truths and even interpret their meaning for later generations?
That's what it means to create context.
