A rebuke gladly taken (Gaming)

by Flynn J Taggart, Thursday, February 20, 2014, 03:04 (3932 days ago) @ Cody Miller

Part of the problem is still focusing on the sign value of art. There's prestige in owning an original Picasso, since it's utterly unique, and the man himself laid hands on it. There's no prestige in owning a copy of a film or video game, yet we still cling to that idea by attaching a creator's name. So "A Hideo Kojima Game" has more sign value than "A Shinji Mikami game", even though the latter is better art :-p

Could you please expand on your idea of sign value? Do you mean strictly dollar-conversion of a developer's name on a game, or something more? We here sure put a lot of sign value on Bungie's name as an organization, don't we?