No, that's because very few people were using bitcoin at the time...
Regardless of how many people are mining at any time, it is the method of mining I am talking about.
If you need a special machine that costs $10000 to mine, then only people with $10000 to invest will be able to mine and hence they will get more $$ and be able to buy more machines and so get more $$ and so the richer get richer. If anyone with a home PC can mine and compete with anyone else, that inherently is a more fair, safer and stable system.
BTC was not designed for ASIC mining, the rise if ASICs is a problem. This is why we have things like Litecoin etc. This is why we have POS systems.
This is why I started this thread. Because none of these solutions work as well as the game as far as I know.