PC gaming....could things be better?

[Rad Party God]

Honestly, the reason why I stick to PC gaming is, ironically, because I can afford it. Here in my country, being a console gamer means that you can afford the outrageous prices that shitty taxes and currency money changes from country to country, making a new, non special edition game as expensive as $80, if not a bit more.

When I had the 360 for 9 months, including XBLA games, picking bargain games and *gasp* used games, I had like 15 games, for the PC, in almost 2 years, I have more than 200 games in Steam only, not counting the games I have in GOG and retail purchases.

I know that we get our lazy ports from time to time, like Darksiders (the only graphical options being resolution change and Vsync) and the first Mass Effect, but I still enjoyed those games, despite all the troubles. I also can't turn into blind eye with all the DRM issues we seem to be getting lately, but they're only a fraction of what PC gaming can already offer. Also, we can skip past them by downloading the right cracks.

I like my dying platform as it is, thank you.

 

[ImprovizoR]

The only DRM you need is key-code for online play. That can't be cracked unless pirates make their own servers. Pirates will crack everything else in a matter of hours sometimes. So the only people who have to suffer are legitimate customers.

But PC gaming isn't dying. Just look at all the titles about to be released this fall on PC as well as other systems, and look at some of the PC exclusives. PC is alive and well. Ubisoft and sometimes Activision are the only companies that are screwing with PC gamers.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

I think one of the big first steps would be to reduce the entry price. For my gamin g laptop (Asus g51J), it came to a total of ~$1,300.

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You know you really shouldn't be bringing up the entry price for PC gaming if you've splashed for an Asus G-series laptop. Yes, the initial investment needed to get into PC gaming is higher than it is for console gaming (as long as you operate on a few assumptions) but a $1300 gaming laptop isn't the minimum level of kit you need to get into pc gaming.

 

[baconbaby299]

If you're going to port something (PC to console, console to PC), do it properly.

I don't have a problem with Steam, but I think that all games should be for one thing. If every game is Steam compatible that's fine, it's just I have around 5 accounts that only serve one game each.