Another reason why games quality is falling, is because now days most of devs in the industries are going by the book or it's just their job. I had an oportuniety to meet matrix animation director, when he was buing game for his doughter. I asked him y he moved form usa to england, and he said he got a job as a animator director for nc-soft ( when it existed in brighton ). ok ok - let me giv u another example: you got money -> you got time -> you studieng game design at uni -> you're getting job in the industrie. ok ok , another one : paris hilton don;t know how to act and sing, and she's ugly but she perfomed in films and recorded solo album becasue she has shit loads of money. Money comes in - passion and will to be the best goes away. Tlentless people everywere in the industire. By lowering the cap, and social inteligance and perception, you can sale crap. Oh yeah, kurt cobain sang 'kids will buy everything what is packet properly' . yeah
hope is in youg passionats who fill that they can deliver.