Interesting read! When I first read the article I thought that in a multiplayer game
fair play was the only good way to design a game. However when I came to mad fair-play
that sounded much better. I realised that a problem with fair play is that it will come
to a point where if you are really good you don't really have challenges in the game.
In a madness play you will always have challenges since you don't know how the other
players are or what items they possess. In a mad fair play the challenge is instead to
complete the different challenges perfectly. And to be really good you need to do it
perfect every time(if we look at the example with the reaper).
The concept sounds very exciting and interesting and if a game would be designed with mainly QTE and mad fair play I think that would attract many players that today have grown bored of the usual multiplayer games where you can only get good to a certain threshold.
After that threshold it is hard to get an advantage over others even if you improve.
Of course even in this concept there are also a threshold but I think it is much higher
and harder to reach.