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Originally Posted by Spike45

It isn't true that "M rated games don't sell or can't be sold" I can name two HUGE sellers right now off the top of my head...God of War or Halo 2 anyone? It isn't that M rated games aren't being sold or even that they aren't out there. It's just that M rated RPGs are very few and far between.

They can be sold, but they do not typically sell as well as rpgs geared towards kids, such as Oblivion. There will always be exceptions but developers tend to go for the safer option and the most reliable market to guarantee sales is kids and teenagers simply because the more mature market tends to be harder to please, especially when it is an rpg. From reading through the threads on GB, a lot of older rpg gamers want rpgs to have better story, character development, puzzles, the ability to figure out what to do themselves and to choose what to do (ie non-linear) and so on. Yet from what I have heard and read, Oblivion is very dumbed down and is all about graphics. Why does Oblivion have such high sales compared to mature rpgs such as Bloodlines? Because the mature rpgs have a smaller market and the kids generally just want a game that looks good and is fun to play, rather than a game that absorbs you and makes you think.