Interview Jan Beuck interview at RPG Vault

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Restricted Area

<b>Jan Beuck</b> has given an <a href="http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/387/387668p1.html">interview</a> to <a href="http://rpgvault.ign.com">RPG Vault</a> over that <a href="http://www.restricted-area.net/">Restricted Area</a> game. Here's a taste:
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<blockquote><b>Jonric: In terms of the overall gameworld and the various individual locations you're creating, what kind of world has Earth become by this time?
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Jan Beuck:</b> The gameworld is the Earth in 2083 - it is covered by the contaminated oceans, one gigantic megacity and burned areas, the so-called Wastelands. There hasn't been an atomic war or anything, but the trees are gone and the global government has to pay the OSAKI cooperation, one of the most powerful companies, to produce oxygen from salt water, for which it patented a method.</blockquote>
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I don't know about the Japanese name. This sounds more like something a certain Seattle based company would do.
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Spotted this at <A href="http://www.ve3d.com">Voodoo Extreme</a>
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[Sol Invictus]

Yeah, the Japanese aren't exactly well known for their cruelty to the environment and mass apathy towards the planet Earth. If anything, they're some of the most environmentally conscious people on the planet, if you can excuse the fact that some of them still think that whaling is still a legitimate business prospect. All of those Godzilla "don't fuck with the planet earth or the planet earth will fuck with you" movies certainly had a whole lot of influence on their environmentally-friendly sociopsychological mindset.

I've never heard of a Japanese company holding a monopoly on anything, either. If anything, they're the kind of people who prefer to share their technology with everybody else and make a whole lot of profit while bringing up the state of technology for everyone and everything. The way the Japanese see it, the more technology there is to go around, the more there is to innovate, so the more money there is to make... in everything! Hence the whole "Japanese are known for their innovation" reputation that hey have. They realize that when you mass produce a certain something, it's going to become cheaper, so more people are going to be able to use it, and you can make a larger amount of profit by selling it to a lot of people for a low price rather than to a few people for a high price. And you get less disgruntled people that way, too.

Also, because if anything "important" becomes mass produced (say RAM chips), people will be able to afford it, and futhermore, computers and everything else dependant on those very same RAM chip making technology will become cheaper, so more people will be able to spend money on a greater amount of things, rather than having to save up to buy a single item.

Personally, I love their way of thinking. It's very good for the open market, and for the population in general. What that certain Seattle based company is doing (and Intel as well) is just hindering the natural evolution of technology. They're just as bad as the Oil and Gas companies who are practically keeping us from using hydrogen energy cells for our vehicles.

Long live open source!

 

[Walks with the Snails]

Yeah, I think that's probably a better concept in the long run. All of our mess with patents and copyrights and lawsuits and the like isn't going to be good for anybody but the handful who can control the system in the long run. Too bad the Japanese ideas on economics have also put them in a going-on-15-year recession, which isn't that great for progress, either. There's something to be said for dog-eat-dog American capitalism, too.