Randy Pitchford Quotes

Whenever I write the scenarios for my games, I don't necessarily envision them being liked or being wonderful for everyone.

I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.

I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.

I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.

I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.

What I like about Kickstarter is it helps games that people want to play still get made, even if you don't pump $20 million dollars into it to try and meet all the stupid bells and whistles that publishers feel must be in games nowadays.

The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.

I often get painted as the guy who's trying to tell other people what to make and what to like, and that's really not my goal, but I believe so passionately that games can be more than a lot of people think they can.

If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.

There are more players on 'Fallout Shelter' than all of my games combined. That's a little sobering at times. It's not a good or bad thing.

Our developers are helping and participating in the virtual economy by making games that aren't just fun, but which monetize as well.

In the past, I worked for HAL, and when working there, I had limitations and had restrictions on what I could create. They wanted me to make the next 'Smash Bros.' and the next 'Kirby,' and that wasn't the place for me.

We founded thatgamecompany to push the boundary of video games as an interactive medium.

FX is a network; that's their whole model, letting creators make the thing they want to make and then marketing it really well.

We want to be a studio that makes a whole bunch of stuff we believe in, in all ranges of scale and time and length, and own as much as that IP ourselves and generate as much of that IP ourselves as possible.

For 'Nier: Automata', I wasn't told to target anyone. I just made what I wanted to, and I tried to stay hidden from Square Enix as much as possible.

One of the things I'm excited about is the observation that gamers are creators and creators are gamers too. We used to think of creators as workstation customers and think of gamers as consumers.

I try not to do traditional games.

I believe it's important for us to have a diverse and free approach to making games in the way that we like.

We want to be this platform, where just like building things in the real world, players can participate in a wide range of ways.

Stop making the same games about shooting something and driving; try something else. There is a market for that.

I feel, as a game maker, we are responsible to make content that stretch the ruling structure and emotions so that everyone can enjoy.

Nintendo's approach to our work is to greatly increase the population of gamers.