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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 4944207" data-attributes="member: 59082">Did you read the paragraph before the one you quoted? I said pretty much just that: that FR and Eberron were money-based decisions and I understood that; actually, that was part of the point I was making: such decisions are based upon finances, not creativity, which is problematic if we're concerned with the "evolution of ideas." Of course it makes sense, and I don't have a problem with a Dark Sun reboot--actually, I look forward to it. But I'm pointing at an industry--and media in general--trend to remake something before coming up within something new. The Star Trek movie is a perfect example of this; I for one would have much rather seen a new science fiction franchise than a new take on an old horse. We're just going to have to disagree on this one; you say it's not true and I say that it is <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />. For example, "users creating content" is a far less imaginative act than a writer creating a world and story from scratch. Sure, the user created content could be more original, but it is still playing with pre-fabricated images. It is like playing with Legos rather than sculpting. I am not saying that there is no creativity or imagination involved in MMOs, just significantly less than, say, tabletop RPGs, writing, painting, and other forms of artistic/creative activities. Yes, I agree. But I think Gary Gygax's analogy of "video games are to RPGs what movies are to books" is very true. We're talking about two different orders of creative activity. The former category (video games and movies) requires less imaginative work than the latter (rpgs and books); I would say, as a general rule, far less and, as I have said, even a potentially detrimental influence in that they replace the inner capacity to create images with pre-fabricated ones, thus denying us the experience of creating images ourselves.I can certainly see how video games can evolve, and probably have evolved. But they still are what they are and the basic differentiation between outer simulation and inner imagination applies.</blockquote>

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