The Seven Commandments of Gaming
by David Wong
About once a week somebody asks me to update The gamer’s manifesto, which got 1.6 million hits in its run but is now three years old and hopelessly out of date. I always hesitated to do that because it seemed kind of cheap to do a “sequel” the article where I wind up re-using a lot of it anyway (since so many of the items do still apply). I thought it would feel like a dance remix track of my one hit song.
What I decided to do was approach it from another angle and, after a quick survey of disgruntled gamers in the forum gathered the principles behind their many, many complaints and formed them into the Seven Commandments of Gaming:
Thanks to everybody who contributed, your money is in the mail.
