December  23rd.  2009
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Rant: Gamers with Lives

posted 2 years ago

Dear game developers,

As the gaming population ages, they have less time to game. Asking a gamer with a full time job, relationships, family, children, cats, to spend “60+ hours” on your game just isn’t happening.

Make shorter, more concise experiences. This isn’t an excuse to be lazy. In return I want better production values, more elaborate encounters, better level design, tighter mechanics.

I want less pointless fetch quests, grinding, collect-a-thons, repetition.

Raw length is NOT a selling point - in fact, it causes me to avoid titles.