Making something people want?

Good point. If people make money by selling games, that's awesome.

But personally, I don't respect this kind of game. There are a lot more interesting games to be made for the platform.

That's probably why I posted a dig. I like clean arcade games like iilwy, stories with depth (e.g. oblivion), and things that get me excited like zombies and FPS. For me, most social games on facebook are a whole world of "who gives a fuck?". No offense.

Let me stress that they are fine businesses, just not my kind of game.

yeah lets work on something that matters like mailing in twitter posts...

Ahahaha. Touche.

hahaha!

Interesting problems and apps that try to change the world rarely intersect with things that have a high profit-per-effort ratio... Projects like this have a much higher probability of making a tidy profit and probably not much of a chance of making enough money to fund space travel. Nothing wrong with that.

I personally don't like a lot of popular software (from FB apps to MySpace to Flash games), but engineering for the masses clearly works.

No offense taken at all. Different strokes for different folks.

When did it become so bad to just work on what you want?