Originally posted by Sexy Grey

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Well, there's just this whole problem of how many shitty games made by people who only play one or two Madden games in their entire console lifespan we'll see.

I dunno, I'm kinda apprehensive about making this kind of power readily available. I mean, what if people don't know how to use it?

However, at the same time the prospect of free development of games by gamers is very interesting.

I-- okay. I just re-read the article and noticed the "Youtube" line.

That's bullshit.

That's total bullshit. Think of all the shit that you find on Youtube. I refuse to pay money for the crappy games that other people will no doubt manufacture. We'll have people shopping in penis-head mods to Halo and making shitty, naked versions of Dead Rising. This won't "nurture game development talent" at all. It'll bring the quality of games even further below what it already has fallen to, and soon we'll have to play through games which are essentially nothing more than the bastardized versions of someone's home videos being hosted on iTunes.

If anything, it's a terrible analogy. But if it's something more than that, I'm scared to see what could possibly come out via Xbox Live, and what Microsoft would do not only with the licensing to such a risky venture, but also what they'd do to the content that the less mature/intelligent part of the excited populace of this target demographic will eventually come up with.

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Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish

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Ziff, the simplest stuff can be made on the computer, too, you know...

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