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Although, even if only 1% or less of the people who bought COD:BO (7 million as of the 10th of November) care about or at least paid attention to the Cold War background then that's hundreds of thousands of gamers right there,
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Actually, that's 70,000 at 1%.
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So hey, maybe some of those players are also RPgamers like us, who knows?
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Undoubtedly some of them are RPers as well.
That is not my point...
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Again, that's not my point. (That is, I'm not seriously proposing that there will be any appreciable cross-over; the preceding was more of a thought-experiment than a serious proposition.)
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my point is that it's like comparing oranges to orange juice. They're made out of the same stuff (story) but you choose one because you want to chew the meat, and the other because you want the vitamins and refreshment quickly.
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My point is that it's somehow become an article of faith that the Cold War is market poison for gaming.
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I never said it was poison, just not financially smart to choose that. There is a smaller and smaller percentage of us that "haven't grown up yet" that remember the Cold War, much less care about it. A game company can appeal to a much larger client base and gain some emotional investment by setting it in a time period that is more contemporary or widespread. You can't blame a company for using that logic to try and make money.
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and I don't see why that's the case, although I admit I don't have any particular insight into our own slice of the hobby. I can only extrapolate from the world at large, and I just don't believe that most RPgamers are so fundamentally different from other gamers that there's no useful correlations to be drawn!
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Useful correlations. Exactly my point. In lieu of hard statistics, of which I'm almost positive none exist, look at the majority of gamers out there and take admittedly-anecdotal evidence of what they do. Most people skip the story in
video games for the instant visual and auditory pleasure and the emotional pleasure of talking smack to your buddies about how you killed them with a knife while they were wielding an M134 minigun in both hands with an invisible-cloaking-antigravity-generator.
YMMV, but mine has been pretty much as written here.