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Posted by: RighteousTyrant
FTFY.Nope, sorry. Rejecting a game just based on its platform marks you as the worst kind of stupid. It's an ad hominem for the 21st century.
I can say absolutely and unequivocally that, barring multiplayer experiences (where the fun is a consequence of your company, not the game) the cleverest and best game design in the world at the moment comes from independent, non-professional game designers. People like Notch and Toady One. Imagine what they could accomplish if they had the support of a AAA game studio, all the art and sound and engineering power that brings?
The problem at the moment is that to get that support you have to sell your soul to the devil, you've got to sign over massive chunks, if not all, of your intellectual property, and probably your company and long-term employment too (cf. infinity ward); in attempting to make your game better, you have to give up the creative freedom that made your game what it was to begin with. In this case, the services being offered are [hopefully] for the benefit of the independent developer, with them retaining creative freedom and executive production rights. That changes everything, entirely for the better.
Genuinely, if this doesn't excite you, you either don't understand the consequences or you don't enjoy games.
[Edited on 06.30.2011 11:31 AM PDT]