...Not one part of this strawman makes any sense at all.No, modern gamers are incredibly fat on this idea of production values. They will literally say "it's bad because graphics" or "not worth $x because graphics", explicitly arguing that price is somehow based on (their ignorant prediction of what was) cost or difficulty, and also explicitly saying the gameplay was there and they like it but graphics. They say a price tag is bad (or even morally repugnant) if it seems to them the game was easy to make, without of course having ever made anything themselves.