Ouch! Someone Wasn't Impressed By Hodge's LGF Comments
Ouch! Someone Wasn't Impressed By Hodge's LGF Comments
November 2, 2007
In its recent coverage of British Culture Minister Margaret Hodge’s address to U.K. game industry types at the recent London Games Festival, MCV had a rather positive take.As writer Stuart Dinsey put it:
Whilst forthright in her view that tax incentives for UK games businesses are unlikely, and insistent that legislation would be changed if self-regulation was deemed to be failing, Hodge was generally positive about the contribution games are making to the creative industries.
But not everyone in attendance saw it that way. One unnamed senior executive told GamesIndustry.Biz:
With Margaret Hodge, I felt she wasn't listening, she said her piece and left. She's not going to be any use to this industry. I felt her mind was closed and she didn't care. Maybe I'm wrong, I would love to be proven wrong. But the impression I got was a whole load of key gaming executives wasted an afternoon there.
We had an interesting talk afterwards between ourselves but I felt Margaret Hodge snubbed us and it's a real shame.
Hodge’s entire address can be viewed here.
-Reporting from San Diego, GP Correspondent Andrew Eisen
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Comments
It means "does not equal".
Moron :)
What?
"The Game Industry wants to know if you mean what you said. Did you?"
No!
"She says no."
either that or snorting cocaine
It's amusing, someone in the game industry has said what thousands of persons have said, that politicians don't really care when they say they care and that they only care about looking and sounding good in front of people.
wait, i thought that's what politicians were for....
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/arts_entertainment/media/uk+video+...
I know she is not in any way supportive of the game industry and would not trust her as far as I could throw and freight train.
Oh do shut up bite me. Manhunt 2 /= every game.
Without us, you're country wouldn't exist. Silly Arse..
Actually, without the British, we would be speaking Dutch. :)
@ bite me
You are not contributing to anything. Please stop.
You phail. End of story. A quintuple post just for attention is sad, and you need to grow up.
Anyways, she seems like a poitician, say one thing, do another (that satisfies the majority of voters).
No you.
We, the American people, are willing to state that "bite me" does not represent the American public's view of the British if you are willing to state that Margaret Hodge does not represent the British public's view of gaming.
(This statement will be official once I locate Jack Thompson to notarize it.)
That's okay. We like trolls on GP. We currently have about three.
She is the definition of nanny state.
Good luck and successes in blogging!
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