Posted by: Theodidactus
« on: December 04, 2013, 05:09:29 PM »Quote
Ability to sell the idea is as important as the idea itself.
This guy certainly might have had some idea at some point – deeply underneath the layers of code. But no slightest clue how to sell it. He probably wouldn’t be able to sell a gold coin to anyone for any amount of money.
It’s horrific that something possibly so great will be wasted and unseen by anyone but the author himself and few hardcore people with no life what so ever.
I saw this comment too and loved it. it's rare to see something so obviously backward. I don't know biographies super well but Steve strikes me as the sort of person that always has a plan...professionally. But this ain't the business world. Otherwise I wouldn't be here.
Aurora is not succeeding IN SPITE of being ill-planned and poorly marketed, it's succeeding BECAUSE of being ill-planned and poorly marketed. A bunch of people sitting down at a table and coherently planning out a game and thinking about how to make it appeal to large player groups can't make something like this. It's just not possible. This stuff can only come from one individual who has, in the words of one classical thinker of great repute, "been in the lab with a pen and a pad."