Souplex said:
Half Life 2 is a threat to other games, not in that it takes their sales; but in that it corrupts them, twisting them in it's own average image. Before Half Life 2 we had few games aboot power-armored non-characters fighting generically evil aliens, using generic weapons, while assisted by an annoying shoe-horned in minority sidekick/love interest.
Also: Valve is a proponent of digital distribution which is also bad.
My internal monologue had a canadian accent for the remainder of reading your post
My opinion is that there is no
industry threatening games. If someone makes a very popular shooter like CoD6, you try to make a better shooter like BC2!
Someone makes an action packed game about space marines that sells awesomely? (halo)
Someone else makes another one that sells well? (Gear of War)
You make EVEN COOLER SPACE MARINES! (haze and a whole hell lot more)
If the industry is ruined due to a certain game, well, the industry isn't very competitive.
