They'll learn. Mass Effect one, good rpg, Mass Effect 2, streamlined piece of crap. Dragon Age I was a great story not so great combat, dragon age II ok combat, awful story. While this is only bioware, even in their interviews they say how they streamline games due to people not like the tedious rpg elements, then they over streamlined and people hated the game for not even being an rpg, now they tell us "sorry about that, next one will try to bring the great of modern rpg, but still the challenge of an old school rpg" Japan is 5 years behind the western world in gaming right now, its been in many gaming articles, and I'd say I agree, they're marketing is awful leaving them less money to even make the next game likeable. If they can get on the marketing band wagon, they could sell awful games, people buy the worst games due to a good commerical (MW3 didn't even show any gameplay footage and it broke a sales record, that gaming series has been unchanged since MW and stagnant, people still buy em up , they rely on new people to buy the game as they lose older players due to stagnation) . Marketing Marketing Marketing! Sell games even if crappy, money from crappy game pays for better niche game that doesn't sell as much but does well if you count sales overtime. Keep gamers happy!