Pop quiz: What's the deisred result of playing a game?

The correct answer is fun. We also would have accepted entertainment.

I just recently saw a thread in which the topic starter complained that games like Wii fit and "casuals" were "ruining gaming for me".

How?

I watched the video he posted and in it, it showed 2 ladies playing a Wii fit-esque game. You could see the excitement in their faces. They were having fun playing the game.

These 2 ladies know more about being a gamer that this person who professed to be an "expert gamer" because he had been playing games all his life.

But he's so angry at Wii Fit.

The point is that there are more folks out there just like our 'expert gamer' and they'd like to either section off the gaming community into "hardcore" "casual" "PC" "console" or just elimiate all categories that they themselves don't belong to.

Why?

I too have been playing games all my life. I still play my pong machine and atari and I also play my Wii and PS3. What I don't do is worry about is my experience getting ruined by someone else's enjoyment or how that enjoyment is brought about. It's sophomoric.

Be in it for the fun. Without that, what else is there?

As always,
Dave