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Peter Molyneux of Lionhead Studios has been used as a stick to beat the FairPlay campaign with since the campaign's earliest days, on account of a dated but accurate quote about game prices - which he has, in fact, never retracted. He kindly agreed to set the record straight and talk to us about the campaign issues... Rich Carlson has been making computer games professionally for five years. He's worked on megabudget computer games for Looking Glass Studios, Ion Storm and a few other high profile computer game companies. He recently started creating his own modestly-priced computer games (along with Iikka Keranen and Bill "Phosphorous" Sears, under the name Digital Eel) for a Seattle-based boardgame company called Cheapass Games. He gave this unedited interview to FairPlay... Pixelfish is a brand-new games development company currently battling the games industry's restrictive business model. They gave this official statement to FairPlay... "Barkman
Online is an independent retailer and we fully support your
initiative/campaign. I completely agree about the ineptitude of
software publishers the amount of money invested in crap which will
never succeed is so unfairly funded by the rest of us purchasing the
good stuff"... COMMENTS "There are those within
the games industry who will tell you that it's impossible to
create a successful game without a huge team and a vast budget, that
the originality that you and I crave is not financially viable.
Do not listen to these people. Their minds are closed. Their
souls are lost." “A price drop to, say, the £20 region would
certainly transform matters (not only in terms of discouraging
people from going down the piracy route but also in the way it
may convince a few more non-gamers to join our ranks by
presenting our pastime as more affordable).” "Few would argue against a lowering of software
prices. Lower RRPs would likely lead to higher volume sales and
more consumers willing to 'sample' different genres." "Of course games are too expensive.
£40-£50 does not represent an impulse buy"
MEDIA Despite attempts by ELSPA to stifle media interest, and open threats by companies to withdraw advertising from any publication supporting the campaign, FairPlay has already attracted a huge amount of worldwide coverage across the web and in print and broadcast media. Not all of it has been positive, of course - tame industry lapdogs like Gamesindustry.biz have been quick to condemn the campaign with ill-researched and blatantly untrue claims (ironically while accusing FairPlay of poor journalistic standards). The links below point to some of the coverage we've noticed so far (if you know of any we've missed, please let us know), be it news stories, forum discussions, or deranged Americans accusing us of being communists. (A popular view from our cousins across the water.) Links point directly to the FairPlay story where possible/permitted by the relevant site. Some of the links, being to news sites, may be out of date and no longer work or may show different stories. In that case, searching on the site's main page should deliver appropriate results. The campaign has given interviews to several print publications, including a number of specialist games magazines, which should appear in the issues due on sale between now and the boycott date.
ATEI - news story ...and many sites hosting FairPlay banner links, and extensive discussions on various Usenet newsgroups, which can be found by searching on www.deja.com.
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