So we, gamers, are just supposed to sit back and let politicians continue to badmouth us, and continue to blame games for all of society's ills?

No, Mr. Yee. The First Amendment guarantees us the right to state our opinions, just as it does for you and others like you.

Just another pointless measure to take responsibility out of the hands of the PARENTS.

If someone who played nothing but Hello Kitty and My Little Pony games went on a killing spree, what would they blame then?

""steep decline in demand" for shovelware led to the downsizing..." Now that's more like it.

@immortality20 I prefer to call it pay-2-not play, because that's pretty much what you're paying for now. Pay to unlock this, pay to finish that quest, pay to skip this, pay to skip that. Why play when you can pay and have everything done for you? In the end, though, all it does is cheapen the experience for the player while lining the pockets of the greedy developers.

Or... they could work on TimeSplitters 4.

They're already creatively bankrupt. It's only a matter of time until their finances meet the same fate.

@dlhoff While they're at it, they should go back to making games that you only have to pay for once, and where the winner is decided by skill and not by who's the biggest spender.

Wii Music U?

A creative director... at Zynga? Since when does Zynga have anything to do with creativity?