People who would argue that 'it is just a game' probably fall short of giving an adequate response to critisism and complains to todays games.
Because one can easily argue that a game should be recognized as a game per se, where the content or service as such is of little importance, when one ought to realize that a game is to be something enjoyable as in acturally 'playing the game'. Consider the notion of 'utilizing the game' to immediately sense the pointlessness of trivializing the game experience.
The playability part is important and unfortunately, even the developers of popular Eve online obviously couldn't be bothered to relate to their 'service' as a game anymore. For Eve-Online this lack in playability part is especially revealing (about certain aspects) to those to (probably thousands of people) who have played this game for a very very very long time. Which ended up me leaving it all behind. And remember, the point of Eve-Online is to stick with it, surely even the game developers are already taking this for granted (Eve-O is a special case, being a MMO with slow/complex skill development).
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