dan

wow its progressing almost as slowly as gears of war development.

well they are having a hard enough time squeezing the ps3 chips into the ps3 box, so they wont be putting the ps2 hardware in there.

whatever everyone knows this was a MMO with a fee. it was out in the previous generation and thats what it was like. consumers should do research into things before purchasing. Theres a sucker born every minute i guess that doesnt want to bother looking into things they buy.
And for video games its inexcusible, all over the web there are reviews/previews and info about this game. so maybe the average consumer may not read these, or know about it. Im sure somewhere on the game box it talks about the fee. Maybe not on the internet stores. but if you use the internet stores u should be smart enough to reseach stuff on the internet.

GoW is being published by microsoft, so i doubt it will ever come to the ps3

i couldnt disagree more. I work for a game developer that has 150 employees, of those employees only about 30 are programmers, the rest are artists, designers, writers and musicians. All of whom know very little about programming. So I disagree with your point about it being hard to break into the industry without a comp sci degree. It might be if you have no artistic,musical or level design skills. But no company is going to pay someone to do nothing all day. I also dont think that the industry is limited by 'hard science' ideas, at least at the company i work for it isnt. everyone collaborates on coming up with ideas for the games we work on. Maybe this isnt the norm, but I doubt that most game dev companies have more coders then artists, especially for next gen titles.

i would make the game not about mindless finding of sticks to put in posts to open gates.