[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] xEpicurus Sorry to break it to you, but their biggest audience is the casual gamers. Why do you think developers dumb games down a lot? According to some studies if I can remember correctly, the average gamer is around 30 years old. When you're 30, you most likely have a job, and possibly a family to take care of. Companies know that people will buy their products like a herd of sheep, that's why CoD sells so well, it's in fashion among 14 year old pre-pubescent boys who have apparently had sex with everyone's mothers, and I doubt any of them have ever even seen a -blam!- in real life after they were born. Kinect sells to people with children, kids like hopping around and that stuff, believe it or not, some people might have different opinions to yours. Trust me, casuals are the majority [u][b]everywhere[/u][/b]. Halo, CoD, BF, WoW, these all make no difference. Personally I used to be a "hardcore gamer" (today I laugh at that name, lol, hardcore has no position next to the word gamer"). - I used to be in the 2nd best CoD2&4 team in Finland when I was 10-12. - Then I started playing WoW(BC) and got to level 70 really fast) and raided like hell, and played some PVP here and there, then I got an alt to level 70 as well and got pretty good on it too. Then WotLK came out and I got to 80 on both chars really fast. I later got into the top #10 rogues in the server during the first months, easily. Later I took a break and continued when ICC came out, I quickly geared on it so that I wouldn't be left out of any raids. Then I quit for good. - I used to be pretty good in Halo 3 from when I was 14-15, I had my level 44 from MLG, and I managed well in MLG customs. That was hardcore jazz. When I was 15, I started playing more casually, I bought AC2 and BF:BC2 and played them all the time, I loved both of them and still do. Then I went to high school and everything changed. I started to go out a lot with friends, started to focus on school more, and just didn't have enough time. Nowadays, now that I'm 17, I have had a girlfriend for a while, a bunch of great friends, studies, and political hobbies - I have no time to be a so called "hardcore gamer". I became a casual. I now play games like Skyrim, BF3, Diablo 3, Left4Dead2, AC2, and I play through every new AC that comes out. I play when I can - but I still kick ass, I'm still a nerd though, I'm just not such a tryhard, I play for fun. Those games which I play seldom make me rage, unlike Halos and CoD games which are ludicrous. I maybe play for an average of 5-10h a week during the school year, and 10-20h a week during the vacation. Before it was 5-10h a day during the school year, and 10+h a day during the vacation. During this process my BMI has also fallen 7 points. You know what? I may be a casual, but I've been "hardcore", you'll grow past this point as well and laugh at your past, and laugh at what you say now, and realize that most FPS games suck - CoD after CoD 4 and Halo after Halo 3, 2007 was the last great year for those 2 series. This is all opinions, but it is a solid fact that most gamers are casuals, and that most money which the devs and publishers get is from the casuals. To get the casuals activated, they need to ease the games so that you don't have to waste your life to get good at it - hence the leveling in CoD and BF doesn't take too long, and you can save at any point in RPGs. Just stating serious stuff here.[/quote] ^this. i can relate to this 100% granite i havent gone out as much because i cant drive right now but i can relate to this alot