Mainstream Press Turns Against Star Wars Galaxies, Monitor Suggests LucasArts is a bunch of Philistines.

Oh, Galaxies, who WON'T you annoy? First the New York Times hammers the NGE and then the Christian Science Monitor slashes you to ribbons for dumbing down the game. And then he goes on to call LucasArts a bunch of philistines because they think words are hard...

Let us first pause, for just a moment, to mourn the collapse of Western civilization suggested in MacIntyre's words, which are, it seems to me, as close to a direct definition of philistinism as anything I have ever read. Let us not be led into the temptation of experimentation, of growth, or - heaven forfend - of learning; we must at all costs avoid personal identification with characters who deviate from the mainstream, who might provide an opportunity to demonstrate greater individuality. And - for goodness' sake - let's have as little reading as we possibly can. Instead, let's revert to a process that would have done the Visigoths proud: kill, get treasure, repeat.

And you KNOW MMORPGs are mainstream when the frickin' NYT and The Monitor have opinions on the latest Galaxies patch. (Via Lum)