Thursday, February 17, 2011

Asking fans for help, good move?





Recently Valve announced that Left for Dead 2  will be asking the community for help finishing the new campaign they will be releasing with the other 3 maps form the first game. This will be new DLC coming to the 360, PC, and Mac (Info at www.l4d.com) That makes me ask the question, what of other companies did that? Let us the gaming community help come up ideas and if the designers like any of it, maybe the possibility of working directly with the production team and helping them out throughout production of the game. I know all of this is a long shot but the thought would be nice. Even if the just said it to humor us.




I can't wait to get your take on this, i will be looking into this more and getting you more info as it comes available.

9 comments:

  1. That's pretty interesting that they are asking the community for ideas. Usually companies just have a short beta. I don't think they will go as far as interaction with the production team--that seems like a mess. But I think this is a good thing and will definitely hype the game more.

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  2. Nice post!!!

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  3. I think they'll refine the best ideas and concepts that come from this process and take main control of the project completely solo.

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  4. I like the community collaborating on games, hopefully it'll bring some fresh ideas to it

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  5. Collaboration works extremely well. Look at the Little Big Planet series. Some of the LBP maps what were user-made are better than the original game!

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  6. sounds good in theory, until "the community" that they get ideas from, becomes filled with /b/tards who all agree that it would be the best game ever if it ended with longcat and tacgnol destroying the world in an epic battle or some other random crap.

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  7. feels like theyre giving back and listneing

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  8. It's a good idea. I've seen quite a few game ideas that, if they'd been revealed to the public even once before being implemented, they would have been scrapped immediately.

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