The Future: Will Games Ever Be Taken Seriously?

They say the future is always clouded and that nobody can predict it. I happen to agree.

However, some things are clear and for the game industry these are the things I see.

It's the hope of all of us gamers as well as those currently in the industry or trying to get into the industry to one day have the entire world take our jobs seriously. I mean most of us take our video games on a serious level for various reasons. Some of us play because we find some sort of belonging with the game, others are captivated by it and see it as a purpose. There are those who find it like art and those who find it like a way to relax and enjoy ourselves.

We all have our reasons, but we all agree that gaming is serious to us all.

Yet the rest of the world doesn't see it that way. They see us nothing more then a small hobby no different from collecting Matchbox cars or bottle caps. They don't understand that our "hobby" is a worldwide multi-billion dollar phenomenon that has impacted society in various ways. From culture to education to even as a form of expression, games are more then just electronic entertainment systems.

They are a craft for the sake of bringing people and interactive experience, something no other media can do.

Look at the movie industry. It started out small and nobody even fully liked it at first. Some were sure that movies, TV, and even comics would never get to where they are now. But they did and our gaming community is growing fast as well.

It's filled with designers, artists, writers, programmers, technicians, producers, testers, musicians, actors, and more. It's an industry that takes all available time, money, and resources to create a single overall game to be distributed worldwide for people to enjoy and millions of us to be inspired from.

Sure we have some immature people in our group and we do have our problems, who doesn't. But I think it will be awhile before anybody takes us seriously. Still I have hope that one day we'll have our own Hollywood like vision where the world will no that we stood through time and trial and we came up on top.

And maybe finally we can say "I am a member of the gaming world" and those around us will take us seriously.

We are gamers and we are legion.

Later