We are all morons!

Umbrood

Imagine any other business that has a product scheduled for sale in the "near future",  that people can not wait for?

Blizzcon is running right now, gamescon have been running for a few days.

And the excitement of people, myself included, is just crazy.

Diablo3 is why I am interested, but WoW or starcraft 2 is equally in the focus.

I am, along with a lot of other people, eagerly anticipating spending money on something I know very little about.

Many would pay a LOT of money to be in Diablo3 early beta, or starcraft2.

Now my point is this, blizzard aside, because this is true for many game developers, what other genre of services has this incredible following of people that are not only willing to pay for your product, but are pretty much DYING to do so?

Can not think of any myself, with the possible exception of some fantastic medicine that would render you immune to the the common cold, or whatever.

To sum it up, we are, or at least many of us are, not only looking forward to but eagerly anticipating the day when we can actually give our money to whatever company.

I just have to ask, what other company who sells ANYTHING can say the same about their customers?

Movies or TV series perhaps, but not nearly to this degree.

This all comes down to one question really.

Are we idiots for being this way?

 

 

 

Eogris

iPhones come pretty close i would say, maybe not

Teala

Just as collectors of Barbies are passionate about what they do, we too, us gamers are passionate about our hobby.       It'll get bad if we start seeing WoW stores crop up in malls next.   ;p

GreenChaos

Originally posted by Umbrood



This all comes down to one question really.
Are we idiots for being this way?
 

 

Sounds more like drug addicts than idiots. Oh, but gaming isn't addictive.

MindTrigger

I think what your average MMO player is looking for is a game they may invest *years* of their time with.  The longest I have played an MMO (SWG) was three years, but I probably would have kept on playing it had the game not been hosed and continued to evolve.  Three to five years of your life is a lot to invest in *any* activity, so it doesn't surprise me that people get very, very involved in their MMO games even before release.  Many of us take it so seriously we stay on top of the entire genre, all the news about all the games.  It used to be like this for the shooter genre back in the days of Quake, Unreal, and Tribes, but the community is much more fragmented than ours now.

I'm currently looking for my next "home" game, because when I find a good MMO, it's the only game I will play.  I've been searching for over a year now, and still haven't found one worth investing my time and money in.

galad2003

Speak for yourself. i don't get excited waiting for a game anymore. To many disapointments.

Any Blizzard game I expect to be delayed three years. I don't even contemplate a Blizzard game until I see it actually on the shelves.

xaldraxius

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Originally posted by GreenChaos
Originally posted by Umbrood This all comes down to one question really.
Are we idiots for being this way?
 

 
Sounds more like drug addicts than idiots. Oh, but gaming isn't addictive.

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Speak for yourself, I'm jonesing for a fix in a bad way man! All the stuff I've been getting lately is bunk, I'm looking for black tar man, black tar!

Cephus404

Originally posted by Umbrood



This all comes down to one question really.
Are we idiots for being this way? 

What you're describing is fanaticism and I don't think most gamers are fanatics.  The fact that most games cater to casual players, people who show up for a little while here and there when they have nothing else to do proves that.  The days when the majority of MMO players spent every waking moment sitting online are long gone, today, most players are adults, most players have lives and jobs and families and online gaming is a hobby, usually among several hobbies, that they use to fill up free time and nothing more.

The majority of people aren't going to Blizzcon, any more than the majority of tabletop roleplayers go to Gencon.  Those represent the exceptions, not the rule.