Something interesting I've noticed...

[Spitfire]

I actually experience the opposite. I was on the SWTOR board at gamefaqs and people were mentioning how SE had the balls to say we screwed up and were going to fix this game and make it awesome, while the developers of SWTOR were all arrogant and acting like the SW title allowed them do to what ever they wanted. EA doesn't seem to be listening to their fan base at all and there are alot of issued that they are not addressing. At lease SE acknowledged they release a crap product but want to do something about it, I think that show alot of who they are.

Also as a side not I think the gaming industry as a whole has gotten rather lazy in game design and story telling too. They rehash the same stuff over and over again. The story telling has become somewhat formulatic and they don't seem to want to take alot of risk in doing something that blows people out of the water. I hope SE does something like that with the cataclysm leading into 2.0.

[Yves]

Also as a side not I think the gaming industry as a whole has gotten rather lazy in game design and story telling too. They rehash the same stuff over and over again. The story telling has become somewhat formulatic and they don't seem to want to take alot of risk in doing something that blows people out of the water. I hope SE does something like that with the cataclysm leading into 2.0.

Very few movies, novels, or even musical performers are new. On a long enough timeline things will be repeated. In addition, if something breeds success it will repeated. Was there anything original about the Pirates of Caribbean movies? No. In fact, they were ripoffs of Monkey Island. But were they mostly enjoyable? Absolutely. The point is that it isn't the actual content but rather how well its done.

Dane Cook doesn't actually say anything funny - he just says it in a funny way...sometimes.