alt Hacker NewsOP is invalidating the blog with the reasoning of detail, art, taste, etc is necessary for a good game.
I am saying that a small subset of people care about this given what people choose to play in practice. It's currently much, much easier to not care about these things and focus on the cognitive aspects to capture player attention, and the human cognitive incentives are not stacked in favor of OPs view.
> I am saying that a small subset of people care about this given what people choose to play in practice.
1. Candy Crush is one of the highest grossing games of all time, but if you look at the other top 20 highest grossing games, the vast majority are nothing like it.
2. Janky crush wouldn’t have been the success it was without massive attention to detail and polish.