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Despite huge sales and rapid evolution, many non-players still struggle to grasp the point of video games.

Try as they might, video games still don't seem to really register in the mainstream "old media". Newspapers and television still largely report on the gaming world as though it is something mildly amusing that happens overseas. Statistics about how many billions the industry is worth or how many billion players there are worldwide tend to be recited with an air of amused disbelief. It's almost as if video games exist only in the imagination of a few friendless dreamers.

Good read.

There must be some mistake, I thought 80% of people under the age of 70 played video games?

The other 20% work on the news papers.

Op-Ed doesn't really translate to the internets does it?
isn't it supposed to be an opinion peice, opposite the editorial?

It's almost as if video games exist only in the imagination of a few friendless dreamers.

someone needs to show the person that wrote that article a few numbers on WoW and the MW2 sales

Honestly who cares if the people who don't play video games don't "get" video games.

Honestly who cares if the people who don't play video games don't "get" video games.

I think it's an important part of getting people onboard for an 18+ classification for them.

someone needs to show the person that wrote that article a few numbers on WoW and the MW2 sales

someone clearly didn't read the article !

The history of the video games industry has been tracking the history of the film industry pretty well, except about 50 years behind. In a decade or two this article will seem silly.

someone needs to show the person that wrote that article a few numbers on WoW and the MW2 sales

someone clearly didn't read the article !

nope, my internal filter helps me not click on things that are clearly click-bait designed to troll raging gamers going into them at a time when they know they're all foaming and frothing at the mouth because of the R18 thing.

edit: even the first line is stupid. They could have replaced it with anything. "Non cricket players still don't get the point of 5 day test cricket".

O RLY? People are different and like different things?

Call me when the news companies start publishing news again

trog, if you won't read the article then get out of this thread. It's actually a good read - the author is in support of gaming.

Nice find, imitation.

ITT: Trog being a noob

article puts up a good point. I wish I had a PS3 so I could play flower, i hear good things about that game

nah im with trog, "news" doesn't mean what it used to
it's difficult to find a trust worth source of actual "news" these days

youre right this isnt news. its just an article about the current happenings/opinions.

Op-Ed != News Hence why I clearly identified it in my subject.

they still fail for letting opinion peices come across as official-ish looking "news" articles

only to retards like yourself.

someone needs to show the person that wrote that article a few numbers on WoW and the MW2 sales

MechWarrior 2? I know it was awesome, but I don't think it sold more than half a million copies surely.