Or, and maybe I'm the weird one here, we shouldn't include romance in games. We absolutely shouldn't have the players' avatars involved in those romances. Games are escapist fantasy, and I don't believe it's helpful to allow anyone to experience romantic things in an escapist context - that should be constrained to the real world.
Then again, I think the only game I've played with a narrative that I really appreciate anymore is Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. So maybe I'm just old and jaded.
Think about speeding on a highway. If you're the lead car or the tail end, you'll get nabbed. But if you're in the pack, there's too many people to nab, so they let it go.
For a brief halcyon moment in gaming, all of two generations, we got away from the blasted Atari joystick. We had D-pads on the NES, the TG16, and SMS, and on the SNES & Genesis. We were free of the curse of "arcade controls" at home. And then Nintendo and Sony screwed up and went back to it. What a shame.
Honestly, it's almost a drop-in replacement as far as UX is concerned. The challenge is the lack of existing communities, which could be overcome if a whole community joined.
Have we considered that if we go back in time, only give things to peasants and common people? It's best if we never try to act top-down. Give the normal folks the means to revolt first.
I was never expecting an SC2 after Brood War, honestly. I was hoping that if Ghost succeeded, either they'd expand their 40K ripoff into other genres and let the WHFB knockoff fizzle out, or they would see that people did want games other than RTS games that are obviously GW properties with the serial numbers filed off, and maybe look back at old games like Blackthorne or The Lost Vikings. Maybe they could even have created a Rock N' Roll Racing 2.
Instead, we got a "not-WHFB" game in the EverQuest mold and more click-wait-click games with cow levels.
That's funny, whenever people do that, I just assume they wouldn't sell without making a profit. And unless it's immediately valuable to me, I don't buy.
That's what they're aiming for, obviously.