Plasma wrote:
RCat wrote:
*whoosh*
Oh, look at that! The point just flew right over your head! So majestic!~
Or you missed his point. That marketing to people aged 9 to 15 is not a bad thing.
Yes, I know it doesn't seem like it, but they're people too!
You'd be surprised at how easily I would've gotten that point if Myk had elaborated on this initially. However, since I wasn't as clear on my original point, I'll elaborate. I have no issue with marketing to children and young adolescents. However, I do find it ridiculous when something tries to hard to market something to those age groups by mushing several different things that those groups like into a single mound of...something, which is what I feel the people who made Free Realms have done. While I can't say Wizard 101 looks attractive, I respect it more in that it isn't a "prom dressed sewn together from various overused fabrics."
Maybe I'm wrong, though. Maybe combining an MMORPG with a racing game, demolition derby, the Imagine and Petz series, other simulators, and a TCG would actually be a superior idea to an MMORPG that is simply an MMORPG. I guess if the parts are implemented well together, then that's good. I also guess that it depends on whether or not somebody thinks that a PSP is inherently better than a DS, iPod/Zune/MP3 player, a flash drive, and a portable DVD player because the former combines the same base functions of the latter 4 devices into a single device.