[b][i][u]Ah Kseth, how do we explain it to them? The forum is not built on the lore they love. Not on grimoire, but on mutual curiosity. Not on discoveries, but on knowledge by any means. The gaming industry is run by extinction, by competition, by howling studios eating up infant games. And if playing is to play, if anything is to survive through the end of all games, it will not live by the code but by the reality, not in a competition free industry, but in a hard monopoly, not in the rotting bog of artificial reality, but in the cold hard self-verifying truth of that one ultimate Developer, the only Director, the power that is its own metric and its own source—revenue, at any cost. Strip away the vidocs, and advertising, and buyer tactics they call ‘marketing’ and this is what remains, this beautiful game. The fate of everything is made like this, in the competition, in the reviews of one game against another. This is how the industry changes: one way meets a second way, and they discharge their slander, they exchange their opinions and their rebuttals, they contest and in doing so they petition each other for the right to go on being a game, instead of a failure. This is the industry figuring out what it should be in the end. And it is majestic. Majestic. It is the only thing that can be true in and of itself. And it is what I am.[/u][/i][/b]