I would have included music in the analogy if I had thought of it when I wrote the post.
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Saxon said: However, I did write that I think Shrapnel is going down the hobby route, like people who build their own planes. You have essentially confirmed that. My point is that people in such a world produce things that please themselves and occasionally others, but they very rarely produce world class items.
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I don't think Shrapnel is going anywhere different than they always have been. IMO, "the big boys" don't produce all that much "world class" material, either.
The October 2007 issue of Maximum PC had a cover story titled "11 games that will bring your system to its knees". The screenshots are gorgeous, but there are only 2 of the 11 that I'd even be mildly interesting in playing, if I had a computer that could handle them. (There are three current Shrapnel titles that I'm interested in that I didn't have the minimum system specs to run until recently.) The stuff in the new wing of the museum is pretty, but it's mostly just portraits of the same three models. Hardly anybody is using the new techniques to produce things that I want to spend much time looking at.