Cliffski’s Blog - Are you a potato or a rock band?
In fact, it would seem weird to feel that way about music. And this is how people feel about GOOD, ORIGINAL games. Generic Match-3 games are potatoes, and they will inevitably get sold for the price of spuds. But decent games (look at the premium pricing for COD:MW 2) and original games can charge what they think they are truly worth. They are rock bands. The existence of other bands is irrelevant. There is only one Manowar and there is only one Little Big Planet.

Try to make less potato-like games.

Futurelooks - Seven Video Games that Shaped Mainstream Society.
Most people recognize that mainstream society has a direct effect on the video game industry. It is largely because of the popularity of The Dark Knight movie that people got interested in the Batman: Arkham Asylum video game. However, the reverse is also just as true. Gaming culture has come to infiltrate our daily lives, entering into arenas that aren’t directly related to video games at all.

Kotaku - I Kept Playing — The Costs Of My Gaming Addiction. Thanks Mike Martinez.
If I wasn't asleep or at work, I was playing EverQuest. The former was becoming a rarity. I would go into work, and I would still hear the sounds of EverQuest orcs in my head. All I had to do was close my eyes and I was speeding through the Greater Faydark zone, killing pixies and turning in quest items.

In January of 2001, a man with a tow truck came to my place of employment and took my car away. I had fallen behind on payments without realizing it, and Nissan had decided they wanted my Sentra back. My first thought as I watched the tow truck drive away was how many hours walking to and from work would take from my EverQuest time.