The author points to Sims Social and League of Legends as points of reducing the technical prowess of games. While it's true that these games are less technica

The author points to Sims Social and League of Legends as points of reducing the technical prowess of games. While it's true that these games are less technically complex than a hyper-realistic 3D game, they are extremely complicated in client-server architecture. The requirements for technical complexity have changed focuses, not disappeared.