Nowadays we go from a hot new product to a dull old has-been a lot quicker. Case in point: HQ, the live app game show. The app's been around for all of a few weeks now, and already a pundit (desperately seeking to be ahead of the curve) is whining that HQ isn’t fun anymore. That's literally the title of the moan-and-groan blast.
The article wanders on for 853 words - Microsoft helpfully counted them for me - but only a few are necessary...
This past Sunday night, HQ offered its biggest prize yet: $10,000. Around 400,000 people joined the game.
Yep, that's what really bugging the picky pundit. HQ was a lot of fun when only super-cool geeks like me knew about it. But now that the icky-poo masses are joining in, and there's a little more money at stake, the show has become so yucky.
All right, I'm being slightly unfair. The article does make a couple of semi-good points about scaling up the game and the possibility of Google cheating. But let's be honest, the pundit's real complaint is about those hundreds of thousands of uncool users logging in. Why, most of them have probably never even heard of The Verge, the site which published the elitist whine.
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