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You know who else thinks reviewers suck? Marc Ecko. by Fussbett 03/01/2006, 3:33am PST
http://ny.metro.us/metro/entertainment/article/Marc_Ecko_discusses_his_scariest_venture_yet_creating_a_hit_videogame/1204.html

Marc Ecko wrote:

I would say there are gamers that have a predisposition to have a bug up their ass for anything urban. The fact that there was a black character on the cover of this game, right away there was a dismissiveness that this was just another “GTA: San Andreas,” that’s number one. Number two, this is the end of a console cycle when there is a law of diminishing returns. The code is as polished as you can make it on a no-hard-drive console like the PS2. So, there are technical limitations that people just can’t understand. There are guys that have a predisposition to be slaves to the code, rather than be slaves to the branding, products or experience. At the end of the day, it’s going to be the consumer who decides and not whether the camera makes a difference.

Ecko starts out with numbers one and two, but then forgets that he was counting. I will continue for him, and sum up.

1) Gamers dismiss urban games, blacks.
2) The PS2 is dying.
3) We would like to patch it, but there's no hard drive in the PS2 (thanks a LOT, Sony)
4) Reviewers care about the technical experience of the game instead of the branding. Consumers are stupider, and will like it more.

Marc Ecko wrote:

If you think that the fashion industry is filled with divas, no, the worst divas are the guys who got wedgies in high school. Game divas are the worst divas than a guy reviewer in a Helmut Lang suit standing in the second row of a show. Those guys are easy compared to the pissy gamers.

5) Reviewers are nerds.

Marc Ecko wrote:

Yeah, it’s a fickle market, but do you think a game like “GTA” sold 10 million copies because of a review score? You try to hit that sweet spot and you try to hit that connect spot that makes a mall walker want to pick up that game.

6) GTA sold 10 million copies regardless of (bad?!?!) reviews

Marc Ecko wrote:

Yeah, this is my first baby. This is my “She’s gotta have it.” The next baby will be twins or triplets.

7) He's very much like Spike Lee (mostly the part of Spike Lee that is black).
8) The next game will be two or three games.
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