Its simple the costs of making games is soo damn high that you need millions of copies sold to make a profit.


To make a game to compete on a high level you need to spend 100's of millions..

Now Activison spends 100's of millions on COD games because it will generates billions in revenues...

Well it is...

I remember back in 2009, MW2 making a lot of noise for costing 200 million dollars.

Cant imagine now...

Look, by definition, popular games are going to be accessible, or they won't be played by millions of people, most of whom don't want an absurdly difficult and complicated gameplay experience. That's just a natural consequence of the enlargement fo the gaming market.

Just look outside the top sales charts and big store shelves, and you'll find a multitude of complicated and difficult games.

apple, google and in a lesser degree nintendo.

Not on making the game, Uncharted 1 and 2 were both made on something like a $20m budget, the marketing is another question entirely though...

You. You are to blame. You were not hardcore enough to purchase every non-casualized game out there, preferably multiple times each. You were not hardcore enough to plunk down $300 per copy, as needed to produce uncasualized hardcore games. You were not hardcore enough to buy every bit of DLC for every hardcore game out there.

You failed hardcore gaming. This casual bullshit we're drowning in is your reward.

That bastard, Mario.

We are.

We keep buying this crap, while real gamers play Dwarf Fortress.

Easy answer ALL THE DEVS THAT COME UP WITH THAT "CASUAL" CRAP.