Amazon is good at so many things. Why is it bad at games?

What's the best theory on why games have such a low cultural footprint despite the incredible economic prowess?

“[Y]ou can dislike parts of a game. You can hate on a game entirely,” Pagliarulo wrote several messages later. “But don’t fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is (unless it’s somehow documented and verified), or how it got to be that way (good or bad). Chances are, unless you’ve made a game yourself, you don’t know who made cer... See more