Audience consumption
- Who is the target audience for LA Noire?
- An older audience as not only is the average age of a gamer 35, but this game is meant to stimulate the mind and this is a feature younger people may not be interested in.
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- What enjoyment do audiences get from playing LA Noire?
- Solving crimes
- Trying to figure out who is lying
- Gaining extra things to improve the game (DLC)
- Posting their achievements on Facebook/ twitter/ fan forums
- How do Rockstar encourage their audience to interact with both the game and institution?
- Extra DLC
- Fan forums
- How does the game appeal to a wider demographic?
- Available on all game platforms
Issues around Audience
- To what extent are audience’s beneficiaries or victims of change within the videogames industry?
- Motion scanners – improve game quality
- More logic/strategy games that are not mindless killing
- What are the wider audiences issues surrounding video games – consider media effects theories.
- Junk culture
- Gaming decreases literacy levels
- Lost reality
- Discuss the +/- of gatekeeping
Positives
- It looks as though companies are making an effort to stop young children playing inappropriate games
- In general this does stop children playing games that aren’t appropriate
Negatives
- Most children get the game off an older sibling
- Classifications are too confusing
- Parents may not be monitoring what heir children play
