[Xrati]

I agree with dogscoff, it's just a marketing ploy by M$. Just because Microsoft doesn't have any games that people want to play, they are now seeing a drop in ALL games!

It's been a long time since I've purchased any games for my computer because there's very little out there that appeals to me. I like to sit at my computer and play strategy games not shoot up the world on Internet play. I was just in a store the other day looking for some new software and NOTHING caught my interest. While it wasn't a software store and had a limited stock (I assume that the shelves were stocked with software that is selling) I still found nothing interesting. The only games that caught my attention was the "Band of Brothers" and only enough to catch my eye. I didn't even read the box or read reviews on it. Maybe it's time the software companies started putting out the kind of programs that people want to play and not the ones that they want out there.

How long has it been since anyone out there bought a game and didn't have to download a patch to run the game. I read in PC Games years ago about the software industries failure to put out functional games and that, that would lead to poor sales as customers aren't about to spend $50USD on a game that doesn't work. One of the most famous of those was MOO3! There are threads on this site about that game and it's problems. PLEASE I don't want to start another thread about MOO3 and it's problems, it's just used as one of the better known issues of software companies putting out faulty programs to meet time or financial quotas and screwing the customers over to rush out the product. There are many more games that fit into this catagory!