[AznHisoka]

I think because the “true” statement is more awkward as a headline, and requires more seconds to parse. Thus they need to dumb it down.

The real headline would be “Most games people buy are never played” or something. Which can mean a lot of things like do people often buy games that nobody else has ever played?

[mlyle]

Welcome to syntactic ambiguity. But I think this was clear enough to infer what it meant before the rephrase (aside from some edge cases like how does this play with gifts and family sharing).