No one is saying the genre should be shackled, but is watering down a genre the best thing for it? Sure you might increase mass appeal but at the expense of your core community? What is wrong with focusing on a core community? Why do we feel every game needs to be for everyone? Why can we not have games with very specific targets instead of games with no real focus?
Game devs are not obligated to make games that generally are at best a modest success. A game that the core community doesn’t like was not made at their expense.
