Warren Spector's next game may get hardcore gamers upset

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Warren Spector's next game may get hardcore gamers upset

Posted Oct 4th 2008 11:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Biz

Forbes's newest look at games takes a gander at the whole "hardcore vs casual" games debate, arguing that while hardcore gamers spend more per person the rise of the casual gamer may become more important to the games industry. The article contains some quotes from legendary game designer Warren Spector who has been working in near secrecy for the past few years at Austin based Junction Point Studios.

The dev studio was bought over a year ago by Disney Interactive and while the Forbes article doesn't reveal details, Spector seems to believe their first game under their new owners could make fans of his previous titles like System Shock, Deus Ex and Thief upset. Spector states, "I'm sure a lot of the hardcore folks are going to be up in arms and I'm really looking forward to getting into that discussion with them. I don't believe I'm compromising on my gameplay ideals at all. [But] any artist who doesn't want his or her work in front of the largest audience possible is nuts."

Tags: disney-interactive, junction-point-studios, warren-spector

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

"[But] any artist who doesn't want his or her work in front of the largest audience possible is nuts."

And the artist who forsakes his fans just to try and earn a few extra bucks is a sell-outPosted at 1:08PM on Oct 4th 2008 by seishinokami

Totally agree with you on that one buddy, this doesn't bode well for the hard-core gaming crowd...Posted at 2:03PM on Oct 4th 2008 by Gripen40k

Warren was my hero for the last decade... all of his games are addictive and i still play them (just installed DX again (for the 6th time (so much to spore drm comment from me (only 3 times PEH!))) i hope he gets bored from this "casual" stuff pretty fast.

i have the feeling this "casual gaming" bubble is going to explode very soon anyway.

just like it happend in 1982.

too much and too much sh.tty games are going to flood the market and the most of them will stay there because they will again (to loot as much as possible) produce it in such an overkill that the people just wont buy it anymore.

and the only people that will buy games will be the now "wecantmakeenoughmoneyoverthem" hardcore gamers.Posted at 6:21PM on Oct 4th 2008 by overflow

why is he credited for thief? he is only on the special thanks part of the credits. still, wonder what this new game is going to be all about :)Posted at 12:34AM on Oct 5th 2008 by perestroika

I get the feeling it'll be another game that's like Spore - about 90% forgettable... er... casual. It's likely that a lot of games will go in this direction. Even WoW will have Bejeweled in it.Posted at 7:27PM on Oct 9th 2008 by Steven Wong