Quote Originally Posted by Paul View Post
k here's me:
"without the fans, there is no squaresoft and there is no final fantasy."

now allow me to explain what i meant by this. i meant square is a company that makes money. if final fantasy did not sell (ie was not bought by the fans) they would not make money, and thus, they would not make games. therefore, final fantasy would not exist without the fans.

i had assumed someone of such a higher form of intellect would have understood what i meant, but obviously not. as for "the fans experience being the only rewarding thing to come from the videogame industry"... well, okay you could be technical and say "the designers feel a sense of achievement!" or "they get paid!" or all that kind of thing. but basically what i was saying is that the most positive part of the game industry, is the fans experience and enjoyment of said games. that is what the entire thing revolves around really, it's an entertainment business and the main function of it is to entertain.

now that i've explained these two quite obvious statements properly, can we just give this whole thing a rest? i'm bored with being patronised
Well, if you're bored with being patronized, then stop misreading what I write.

I completely understood what your statements meant. There is not, however, a logical flow between the two statements. I was asking you to provide the logical flow from "Fans support the industry" to "the ONLY rewarding thing is fan experience". Maybe I'm not being blunt enough. I contest your claim that "the fans experience being the only rewarding thing to come from the videogame industry" and wish for you to support it. Because you have not, but your sentence is phrased to suggest that the previous evidences the latter.

And yet again, I point to the fact that our enjoyment is irrelevant to the canonicity of the event. Greedo, sadly, shot first.