16th March 2004, 10:25 PM
Because they aren't paying any attention to the game's designers! The main reason is because most of the games they copy are made in Japan, and Japan doesn't care. The rest, well, games are for children and stupid people, remember?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)