Which is what happens you start simplifying game mechanics and dumbing the game down so the masses can play. Which is the current trend for games. Good business model, not so great for intelligent "gamers".

The RTS market has suffered a lot from SC2. Only a few titles still offer the "strategy" component.

The games with more strategy and tactics in them but requiring little APM confuse the hell out of my SC2 friends.

You can argue that SC2 is a game where you need to get better APM to even be able to start using tactics but honestly we can all see how the strategy in this game has become stagnant.

@infinity_ MOBA is more simple than SC? Are you kidding? MOBA's are way more complicated than SC. SC is a basic RTS and and the different levels of play are measured in (useful) apm.

@DarthLod I wonder how many people NEVER buy a single player game because they can just pirate it.

Most "gaming" people I know admit to me that they will pirate every "good" single player game and not give a shit.

The studio that developed Titan Quest had to close down because their game was pirated to the extent that they could not sell enough copies, (and yet more people who enjoying their game).

Not that I support always-online. But if this game's servers worked properly I wouldn't care about it.

This will probably only end when a kid (probably their main market here) chalks up a giant cost while playing a game and a parent finally figures it out and sues them (in america).

@samuel27950 @Cordliss @Fartman7998 @poromenos Man I hate origin. I don't even know how but my origin was hacked (seems to occur alot for origin). I have to make a NEW account and use live-chat to talk to support and somehow convince them its my account. Didn't happen and I lost like $200 worth of games. **** origin, and ubisofts DRM., and windows live for games. Steam is the best platform, hands down.

@Fartman7998 @-Jonce- Heh, I'm about as non-casual as you can find in a gamer. Honestly, ME3 was so much fucking fun. I really enjoyed the emphasis on the action in that game (which has diluted many other games). It was fun until you reached the end. The bad writing there just made the butchering of the core concept of "decisions" crystal clear. It was a killer for anyone who was even the tiniest bit invested in the story emotionally, you didn't understand the entire ME3 series if you didn't feel that. That's most of the reason why I couldn't touch ME3 a second time (compared to replaying the previous ones) even though it had the BEST immersive action of the entire series.

@Stabba_The_Kutt Hate to break it to you but I recently built a computer that runs crysis 3 on ultra for $1200.

@jhcho2 Nope, THQ dont own the Dawn of War franchise. Games Workshop does, and they decide who has rights to it, so THQ can't sell it.