[Gamasutra highlights choice quotes from game industry figures such as Activision's Eric Hirshberg, Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner, NASA's Brian Dunbar, and many others.]
In our original and exclusive interviews, analysis, and feature pieces over the past week, a wide variety of developers, publishers, and indies shared their thoughts on free trials in MMOs, going beyond violence in games for violence's sake, movie tie-ins, and swans.
This Week's Noteworthy Game Industry Quotes
x"Based on the usage patterns we've seen from consumers, it's completely conceivable to have a fully immersive experience on a tablet akin to an Uncharted or a Skyrim"
"There are a lot of elements of [Japanese] that we still haven't shown to the world; a lot of things are still kept at home. These are things that we can actually show in a proper way, that the global market can understand."
"Left on their own, free trial players are basically playing a single player game, and then asked if they want to sign up for a subscription to this single player game. It won't work. It can't."
"Rather than just having violence for the sake of violence and cheap thrill, we wanted to give meaning to violence: Why does this happen? We want to link emotion to violence."
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