Alright, back from sleep. There are so many people in this thread who said "I just play good games", yet none of them have been posting in the recent Indie Games thread. And that is exactly the issue, what do people consider "good" games? This is something subjective of course, but people are dismissing a whole type of games ´, just based on formal aspects, which essentially comes down to "because they arent used to it". For all the people complaining about the thread title, lets just say that the thread title served its purpose. And do you know why? Because it got people to talk.
If I do a down to earth attempt to get people on here to play these kind of games, you know like... making a huge thread about the variety of recently released Indie Games:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=517647
It takes almost 2 weeks to reach 200 posts not done by me.
You know how long it took this thread to reach the same non-Toma postcount? 6 hours. And that is exactly the problem here.
So all of you guys saying you only play "good" games, or the ones saying AAA or Indie doesnt matter to them, how many of the games from the thread linked above did you play? Because there are about 5-10 games in there that are almost required playing because they are very, very great games. Yet no one seems to care. And why? Well, because what I said in the OP basically.
A couple of points here-
I'm not sure how lack of interest in the indie thread implies anything- nobody is required to register their interest there. There are lots of AAA games I play where I don't enter the thread either, probably the vast majority of them, and one single 'indie' thread makes for a far less focused discussion- I would imagine anyone looking to discuss a particular game would look for a specific thread on it.
I take your point that AAA threads get more responses, but it's a vicious circle- people are more likely to post on threads that stay on the front page. Games that sell millions have millions of players etc etc. That still doesn't mean people haven't played games, they just might not want to discuss them when another discussion at is getting twenty responses an hour is going on.