StingingVelvet wrote on Jan 22, 2011, 08:14:

Dirwulf wrote on Jan 21, 2011, 23:27:
Hardcore gamers tend to forget that they may be the loudest, but they are in the minority.

I don't think rational hardcore gamers are confused on that point, we know that. At the same time though switching from making creative and contained works of art to making services that are designed from the ground up to make money from compulsive people, rather than be good games or artistic in any way, is basically the old "selling out" cliche.

You're obviously more focused on "how do I make money from games?" rather than "how do I make great games?" That's fine, you're probably in the majority, but as players we don't care... we want real games and people are either going to make them or they aren't. If they aren't, well, we're going to bitch about it, as anyone would do when their hobby is being weakened.