The game is valuable, without question. I think the guy might be overpricing just a little bit, though. I could still see that going deep into quintuple digits, though.
Sony has a full-on effort to crush the hackers who have hacked the PS3. They've sued people, gotten court orders to sieze computers, and more. They even tried to get Youtube to turn over the records of the IPs of everyone who watched the video telling you how to homebrew-ify your PS3... that was refused, but they are pushing the hackers hard. They're going way, way farther than any other game company today, and it makes me hope the hackers succeed, because these tactics are just awful... if we needed any more reminders of how awful a law the DMCA is, and that other Western countries are maybe even worse, this should provide those.
I mean, if you own the hardware, you have a right to open up the box and modify what's inside. Sony does not own the inside of the box. It's pretty important that eventually this gets recognized, manufacturers would love a world where they have absolute control and opening the boxes is illegal, but seriously, that's insane. (Plus, I know I've heard in the past about the idea of computers that would be illegal to open... sure, I think it's pretty unlikely, but what if this did spread to PCs too? Bad, bad things.)
And doesn't like playing story-based games like the MGS series. Considering the kinds of games he has made throughout his career this isn't exactly surprising, but I thought the article was interesting enough anyway. :)
The article mostly exists to talk about why Will Wright is doing an upcoming TV show on Current TV. He decided that to tell a story he'd rather do television than videogames. I think that games can tell stories well, but it certainly is true that they usually don't. till though it is possible, even if it is true that there's usually a conflict between story and the primary reason games should exist, gameplay. Games that manage to combine story with gameplay effectively, such as Torment, are few and far between to say the least...
Telltale really is doing well... they're just about the only adventure game developer in North America, but they're releasing a lot of reasonably good titles. This definitely interests me, but I do wonder how much like a Sierra adventure game it will feel... Telltale's games aren't really Sierra-style from what I can think of. We'll see though, it's pretty interesting news for sure. :)
