Sadly, Vagrant Story showed you can't make console RPG too deep. Vagrant story was clearly a RPG you had to do some thinking and time your hits yet too many gamers found it too hard.

I blame teh casualz.

Try leaving FFXIII to play itself without changing paradigms and see what will happen ;)

So true...

I want to go running / do my laundray / prepare something nice to eat for my gf but i feel so lazy i prefer to play starcraft instead.

The real question is, without starcraft, would i be doing the things i'd like to do or would i be wasting my time on something else ?

Because when I killed people in real life I lost my life and wen't to jail!

On a more serious note because people are lazy and the things you mentioned take effort. Video games are instantly rewarding and therefore they are popular.

its' cheaper, safer, funner, easier

Wtf? ;_;