An [URL=http://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/?p=1093]interesting editorial[/URL] has surfaced over at the Ludologist, where Jesper Juul argues that hardcore gamers are applying some of the same arguments against social games that the mainstream press has applied to the videogame industry.

[INDENT]Gamer prejudices against social games are verbatim copies of general prejudices against video games. Within video game culture, we have spent decades trying to make video games respectable, but now we are simply taking the prejudices against us, and regurgitating them at a new form of video game, looking down on social games the way that culture at large has been looking down on video games. We have made social games into [I]the video games of video games[/I].[/INDENT] He goes on to point out that it is OK to dislike social games: [URL=http://www.gameculture.com/2010/09/08/hardcore-vs-social-watch-your-arguments][B][COLOR=#8e0505]Read More[/COLOR][/B][/URL]

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