Kerk

A fictional character is your hero? Sheesh. Perhaps you too should "punch out, eject" and step away from the keyboard/game controller.

SH, are you serious? An unexpected comment really. It has nothing to do with dorkness of gamers. The world is filled with ficitonal heroes from books and movies. I know several book characters who were highly influential on young minds.

Or do you suggest that we withold any emotional investment into fiction at all?

Blame the fans. Nice. But then after blaming the fans, the source goes right on to describe how EA blames Myzuka for The Old Republic not being the cash-cow they expected... I remember that when EA acquired Bioware, I noted somewhere that the best way to tell how Bioware employees felt about it was to watch how many would leave. Now even the founders have left.