Saving a comment, since they choosed to ban me and they may delete it:

You don’t see my point.

I’m sure that they all felt pimped and stuff during these conferences. And I’m also sure that they felt the discussions interesting and useful.

But for me the real and concrete *value* comes from the direct experience with the players and the game itself. “Get your hands dirt”. I’m simply stating that talking with the players, even the most stupid ones in a cesspit like B.net, is way more concretely useful than the chatter between “high-profile” elitists with complex theoric studies on the topic.

I believe that the creativity, the passion and even the innovation comes from *below*. Not from the high level theorization. I still have to see a damn GOOD concrete result coming out from all that fancy stuff because the most interesting and fun games to date, imho, are those that DON’T follow the ideas coming out from those places.

Peoples like Jakobs, imho, just demonstrate that they are willingly to discuss only inside an highly protected environment where they are on top of the ladder and can choose exactly how much they can be open or not.

As I said, what they write is all faked. I’m sure that its their true opinion, I’m just stating that they are trying to fool themselves as part of their PR game. It sounded like the G8.

So, they passed those days discussing in those conferences, while I passed my time reading and discussing in the beta forums of WoW. I’m really wondering who learnt more. And who is really open to learn new things and new approaches.