- Recon Number 54
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.
Posted by: Eijsvogel2
Well, you could also argue that the profit motive stimulates innovation. If you come with something better than everyone else, you can earn a lot of money with it.
IMO, that is the only reasonable explanation for any effort at improving or innovating anything.
If we (humanity) were comfortable and satisfied with banging rocks in front a fire in a cave, then why try to make anything "better for me"?
I can't think of a single step of progress that wasn't at least attempted to "make MY life easier/better" and in most cases once social structures allowed for it, by coming up with "something new and better", the innovator typically reaped some sort of benefit for not only trying/thinking/working it out, but for getting off of their ass and actually doing something.
Just look around these forums. How many people say "I want to be in the game industry, but what I really want to do is come up with ideas. I am more of a concept and idea person." As if they could simply envision, and others will somehow "make it happen" and bring the "idea guy's" vision to reality. Total crap.