Documentary filmmaker takes on MMORPGs

Not anaother one...what is this like the 3rd mmo player documentary in so many years?

Yes look at the mmo player
They are such social misfits
Ooo look the perfunctionary hot girl who is really a nerd
and there is they guy who lost his job/wife/dog due to mmos

The drama
the joy

ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

MMOs are changing so much.

I think in 10 years or more, the typical MMO player will NOT be very simliar to typical MMO player now.

I hope it's less depressing than Second Skin.

Yikes.

Based on that trailer this seems to be more of an insult to the average gamer rather then a documetary looking into gamers. It seems to want to show to the world that gamers are losers and degenerates in other worlds filling the sterotype that people attribute to gamers.

Instead of showing what gamers are really like, people like anyone else that enjoy playing games. The person that lost their job because they played WoW and hasn't found a new one because they still play WoW has Issues beyond being a gamer.

With just the trailer I fail to see how the filmaker its trying to change how the world sees Gamers. The trailer just shows how he is reinforcing how the world see's us by highlighting the bad cases.

Second Skin is a worthwhile watch IMO. If nothing else, let it serve as a cautionary film on how much is too much.

Agreed with most previous posters.
1.I would like to see a documentary on MMO where the journalist ask real questions to dev about why their game failed or why they succeeded?

2. Show mmo gamers who doesn't look like a 5150 call.

Honestly,I don't identify myself or any of my real life friends to the people I saw in this trailer.

The same thing with The Raid trailer,the three players are shown as solitary in a low lighted room.

http://jointheraid.com/site/

This isn't a new documentry. I watched about two months ago on DOC. A bit late.

There's going to be SOOOoooooo many new players coming into MMO's when this airs!!

Gawd, not another one of these. I know the looser mmo geek makes good film I guess. But enough of these. There are a few of us out here that play mmo's, and maintain a "normal" life. These "documentaries" are getting old.

Anyone know where I can watch this in the UK?

Just the trailer makes me want to punch this guy in the face repeatedly.
Just once I'de like to see someone do a mass media story on the positives of MMO gaming.
The social interactions, freinedships, the exhiliration of working with a group of people to create strategies/tactics to overcome the obstacles provided by the game. Why must it always be about lost jobs, broken relationships, ruined lives?

Oh thats right becuase THAT sells movie tickets/DVD boxes. -.-

Before i stopped playing WoW (5 year vet) I had a very close collection of buddies, roughly 50+ people who i conversed with about hundreds of dirrect topics, felt sadness when something bad happened in thier lives, expressed joy at Thier childrens births, work promotions, marriages etc etc..In short WoW was like hanging out at the bar with friends after a hard day at work. You'd think that after so many years of "gaming" in general that someone somewhere would step up and begin disproving the medias villianization of gamers and thier chosen hobbies/lifestyles.
There are failures in every walk of life (i see hundreds a day at my job) Why are they not ridiculed, berated, embarrased publicly over and over again, every time someone involved in the same bad behavior does something stupid?
I don't see a movie being made everytime a Junkie overdoses on drugs. Or an alcoholic kills a family of four while driving drunk.
Stories like this infuriate me to no end.

I remember watching this a couple months back and it was really good.

Isnt it wonderful that when "famous" names suddenly throw their names in the mix games are suddenly no longer part of a subculture and are "mainstream"................thingies.


Pathetic.