>>> Scott, don't you think people are getting sick of first person shooter games?
Sure, just like women (and many men) are sick of TV soaps, and sappy love novels, and just like men are sick of action movies and fast cars. Give me a break! ;)
FPS games will be here and getting better for decades.
The key is for developers to add something new so that future FPS games are not clones. That's what we were so successful in doing with Duke Nukem 3D, and we are doing new standard-setting innovations with Duke Nukem Forever, too (that we know no other developer is doing--one of the reasons we're being so secretive and quiet with this game, and Prey, too).
As for me paying for my own membership (raised not by you but someone else), I'll repeat that it's not a matter of affording it, it's a matter of principle. If SI thinks that my input here is valuable to you, their members, then they can give me a free account. Otherwise they must think my input here is not valuable, and I'll be gone in a few days. No biggie. Being here doesn't benefit me--it takes away from my long to-do list. However, I don't mind helping out GTIS stock owners, but not on my own dime, I draw the line there. If that offends anyone, so be it.
Scott Miller
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