If you're running canned game from The Game, or The Pickup Artist then odds are you're gonna get busted.. If you are starting out, and running very canned routines and material then you will probably not get very far.
There have always been players, there have always been naturals.. there always will be. If women find your approach attractive, and you are comfortable around them you will do fine.
What has been taken away by the exploitation through main stream media (and yes I know I was a part of it) has been the easy secret entrance to getting women to pay attention to you, even if you were a geeky and unconfident guy.
Consider it, co-evolution, or like a computer security vulnerability that gets exploited for a while by viruses or hackers, or spam. Eventually the security hole is fixed, and that particular approach no longer works. Then the process starts over. Thus co-evolution.