Wish Microsoft would stop waisting good programmers making games with no teaching objectives. 2 weeks after the opening sale the first one hits the garbage, and will be joined by others within the month. Why-- NO OBJECTIVE -- once game is done --it's done. all else is editorial. How about giving idle programmers to NASA for real use. Instead of hours of mindless blah.

I'm not quite sure why someone would choose this forum to bash Microsoft. Particularly over games. Why not bash the movie industry over movies like Ishtar? Is it because those are art? Never mind that they consume many more resources than a game in terms of manpower and intellectual capital. And he government can't be bothered to fund NASA enough to afford the services of the Microsoft porgrammers in any event.

Incidentally, it strikes me that Mythica, as an MMORPG, has no objective and is theoretically open ended. In other words, it's never done!

I do agree with what appears to be the point of Mr. Allen's comment and that is that it would be nice if there were more of a purpose to games. There's a potential to educate and to makeart in the games industry that still has yet to come to fruition. Perhaps on day...

I'm not quite sure why someone would choose this forum to bash Microsoft. Particularly over games. Why not bash the movie industry over movies like Ishtar? Is it because those are art? Never mind that they consume many more resources than a game in terms of manpower and intellectual capital. And he government can't be bothered to fund NASA enough to afford the services of the Microsoft porgrammers in any event.

I do agree with what appears to be the point of Mr. Allen's comment and that is that it would be nice if there were more of a purpose to games. There's a potential to educate and to makeart in the games industry that still has yet to come to fruition. Perhaps on day...