No Country for Old Men

It's an interesting time we live in. Garriot and Starr are back in the industry...(erm, are they really, seeing how they are making yet another facebook game instead of a MMORPG?), Raph too, the other guys from Crowfall, some of them were on the teams that worked on UO, SWG and Shadowbane (and some stupid Wizard 101 or whatever, wtf is this).



Actually after carefully observing what they're doing I can't help but notice how they all are horribly out of place. They're old, they haven't done any real game for a long time, and they are apparently doing stupid stuff. So clumsy. Chris Spears with his idiotic combat system for SotA, the Crowfall guys with their idiotic anime graphics, gunnea pig playable characters and so on... I wonder what will all this lead to.

They have the experience, they have the knowledge (or at least they claim they do), but do they have the drive and the determination? -- Old men taking careful steps, can this possibly lead to any kind of breaktrough? Doubt it.


For every one of those old guys this prolly is one last attempt to do something they used to do when they were younger. After that they better retire, lest they want to look pathetic.