Y'know that's actually an incorrect statement on my part. It isn't a failure. It is clearly a money making gold mine for the creators and admins of those sites. A lot of the folks with pages aren't doing too badly either. Their profits are likely off the charts.
A better way to put it is that these sites are from my POV sapping the creative culture and turning it into a cheap money grab. Turning artists into a bunch of dependent simpletons. The driving force behind the work is the cash, not the desire to create. That cheapens and almost always diminishes the quality of the work. To put it simply, it has lowered the bar of integrity in the artistic world lower than it has been for a very long time. If I am a developer with a creative mind you'd imagine my overlying desire would be to put together a great game that everyone will; A: Like to play and B: Will be apt to buy, like and keep. Those are the things that (in a place I would call a sensible world) will make my creation well received by my audience, and that is what drives my perception of success. Are there models like that out there? I hope so, certainly there has to be some of them still out there. But I'd bet even they would tell you they are among a growing minority in their respective crafts.
So from that perspective I am wrong and you are right. It is not an abysmal failure. It's an abysmal success.
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