Correct, except for one point: the entire rest of the gaming world except for Dark Souls was already doing this sort of thing about five years ago. The problem to me is that the success of Go is suggesting that gaming's going to be in its Dark Ages for a bit longer than I expected it was going to, say . . . a month ago.
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"making games easy" and "making stupid mindless trash that you play on your cellular telephone," that is, not "making massive geocaching games." although apparently Niantic was doing that, too.