While I agree that there is a lack of major innovation in the video games industry and there is a problem with most gamers just waiting for the next AAA title f

While I agree that there is a lack of major innovation in the video games industry and there is a problem with most gamers just waiting for the next AAA title from a major publisher, I think your examples are all flawed. SW:TOR is definitely World of Warcraft with a Star Wars skin. It also has the most voice acting of any game in history and it is the first MMOs that actually has a story for each player character that is worth following. Modern Warfare 3 as an expansion is now arguing semantics. What makes it an expansion? Two years of development where they didn't really innovate but they continued to tightly tune their well oiled machine and CoD Elite is a great platform that almost every game would benefit from. Is it simply price you are annoyed with because you don't perceive the incremental improvements to be worth it? Modern Warfare 3 is definitely not going to push the video games industry forward in any major ways but Modern Warfare 1 & 2 have already done that. As another poster has stated you're confusing Castle Crashers with something else. Castle Crashers is more like Battletoads or Double Dragon or River City Ransom. The "hardcare" video game industry is moving forward albeit slowly. The "social" video game industry seems to have stagnated already and is just rehashing their current game mechanics with new graphics.