Omega

With respect to Joe Smith's comment, you are both right that this is an old industry with many powerful contributors, but are incorrect in the respects that it is wrong to put a man who has both a subtle and powerful impact on the industry on such a pedestal.

As the article hinted at there are so many things that are and have been, at their base, affected by this Wright's respective works. It is not simply the gamers who put the pedestal under him, it is the designers and other leaders of the industry who stand beside him that put him there.

I am reminded of GDC game design challenge where Wright not only won over other great industry figureheads such as Peter Molyneux and others, but 2 of the other competitor’s entries (solutions) paid noticeable homage to Wrights works and they gave him a nod for that.

It is not wrong to put this man on a pedestal for game design than it is to put Hawking on one for physics.

Maxis forever.