This is just plain wrong anyway. Creating a social game is much more expensive than a iOS title for example. Sure it's still cheaper than most AAA console games

This is just plain wrong anyway. Creating a social game is much more expensive than a iOS title for example. Sure it's still cheaper than most AAA console games but really cheap game making is thriving - in indie companies and actually interesting new products they make. In a social game, the back-end has to scale for insane growth, your users might be going from 100 users to millions of users in days.