PC Gaming is DYING

[CheeseSandwichCake]

If PC gaming died tomorrow, I would be sad. But then I would drown my sorrows by playing the eight million brilliantly designed $5 indie games that are published every year for the PC only. Then I would spend a few decades playing multiplayer PC games on the dedicated servers that PC gamers still maintain long after the companies have gone under and shut down their own servers. Then I would download a bunch of user mods for my classic RPG catalog (including the complete works of Bioware, Obsidian, and Bethesda) many of which are excellent, all of which are free, and none of which are available to console players.

When I got bored of all that, I would boot up an emulator and start playing allegedly console-exclusive games that never even got ported. With more customizable options. And better graphics. And my choice of control system. For free.

On my PC. *****.

So much win in this post, every point is something that passed through my mind as well upon seeing the thread title.

Combine this with the image CheeseSandwichCake posted and you might as well close this thread, there isn't really anything else substantial to discuss.

Combine both posts and you get an epic, compelling, cinematic, thread ending experience.

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If PC gaming died tomorrow, I would be sad. But then I would drown my sorrows by playing the eight million brilliantly designed $5 indie games that are published every year for the PC only. Then I would spend a few decades playing multiplayer PC games on the dedicated servers that PC gamers still maintain long after the companies have gone under and shut down their own servers. Then I would download a bunch of user mods for my classic RPG catalog (including the complete works of Bioware, Obsidian, and Bethesda) many of which are excellent, all of which are free, and none of which are available to console players.

When I got bored of all that, I would boot up an emulator and start playing allegedly console-exclusive games that never even got ported. With more customizable options. And better graphics. And my choice of control system. For free.

On my PC. *****.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

PC gaming died 10 years ago when it stopped being the center of hardware and software development, these days on one hand its a shadow of its former self on the other a indestructible walking corpse of mediocre madness(DLC sites where you can whole games or flash games of the dead) and pure dark cult games like sins of solar empire.

Don't get me wrong PC gaming lives but its nothing like it use to be and with WOW and others contorting and mutating it things will only get worse before they end..

Future?....Hope?...bah IMO modern gaming is like modern music its not about art or even entertainment its about trends, brands and fads with consoles getting the most funds and lack of attention to qaulity gaming is dead.....

game over mmaaannnnnn ggaammmeee over......

And yes I am a bit pessimistic.... *rolls eyes*

 

[lacktheknack]

EVERY game sold on the PS3, Xbox 360, and the PC the PC always sells the least amount of copies.

FREAKING SOURCE, PLEASE!

You're about ten years late, anyway.

 

[Pyro Paul]

big name PC gaming is dying.
but that is because homebrewed indie PC gaming is so alive.


it is hard for a large corperation to sell a full priced game when some indie group makes a game which is more fun or better looking and charges 10-20 bucks for it... they just can't compete with quality mods or fun indie games, so ultimatly they will choose to go to a place where that isn't a problem (consoles)


however, PC gaming itself is never going to really die any time soon.
FPS games such as Counter Strike, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress and the ilk are all highly populated and heavily played games. MMOs are filled with millions of players on a daily basis. and casual players populate the internet playing short 5 minute games of ball popper or word matcher. PC gaming has, and will continue to exist. however the market for PC gaming has become less lucritive which is why big companies are starting to step away from it.

 

[geldonyetich]

My disagree-o-meter just broke.

I approve of your message but not of your delivery. What the fuck is spore doing on there? That is all.

OP: obvious troll is obvious

It's also a bit off when you consider that nobody was saying PC gaming was dying when 3/4th of the games on there were released. It's mostly been around the time when things were going digital, sometime around the point when MMORPGs were really starting to catch on.

 

[I_LIKE_CAKE]

*sigh*

 

[Xanadu84]

PC is now where the small, dedicated fan base ensures that PC gaming remains profitable, and where developers go to innovate new ideas, try brave new designs, and generally balance on the occasionally frustrating yet cutting edge of gaming. Mods and Ports ALONE guarantee PC gaming is safe. It's not the most profitable of platforms, sure. But its made a comfortable niche, and it aint going anywhere.

 

[Xanadu84]

My disagree-o-meter just broke.

I approve of your message but not of your delivery. What the fuck is spore doing on there? That is all.

OP: obvious troll is obvious

It's also a bit off when you consider that nobody was saying PC gaming was dying when 3/4th of the games on there were released. It's mostly been around the time when things were going digital, sometime around the point when MMORPGs were really starting to catch on.

Duke Nukem Forever is on that picture, and its SPORE you criticize?

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

So anti-pc trolls exist...already knew that one.

 

[Daedalus1942]

PC gaming is slowly but efficiently dying. EVERY game sold on the PS3, Xbox 360, and the PC the PC always sells the least amount of copies. And lets be serious the only reason people have PCs are for info, news, World of Warcraft (Which I despise), The Escapist, buying stuff, and itunes. Besides those few things PC gaming is dying. The only people that enjoy are the crazed fanboys that every once in a while try to hump the disc drive. I admit I'll go back and play Half-life 2 every once in a while because I'm trying to pass the time til the next great console game comes out. Pcs were good for games then that went away, then they were good at customization in games and that went away, and now they're good only for porn.

Borderlands on poc is soooo much better than the console versions. the only thing is the online's still crap.

 

[lacktheknack]

...and let's not forget Dragon Age: Origins!!! (I am getting it for Christmas ... on the PS3 ... sort of shot my argument in the foot there didn't I?)

Losing out on the tactical view, aren't we?

The PC version is better for strategists...

 

[theultimateend]

PC gaming is slowly but efficiently dying. EVERY game sold on the PS3, Xbox 360, and the PC the PC always sells the least amount of copies. And lets be serious the only reason people have PCs are for info, news, World of Warcraft (Which I despise), The Escapist, buying stuff, and itunes. Besides those few things PC gaming is dying. The only people that enjoy are the crazed fanboys that every once in a while try to hump the disc drive. I admit I'll go back and play Half-life 2 every once in a while because I'm trying to pass the time til the next great console game comes out. Pcs were good for games then that went away, then they were good at customization in games and that went away, and now they're good only for porn.

Also the Flu was created by the government to keep people getting vacinations.

Oh yeah, here's a list of PC Games coming out 2010 (including Exclusives at the Top of the List) and it doesn't really look that bad... http://adrianwerner.wordpress.com/games-of-2010/

Most of the Top Titles:

Surprising that even Capcom and Konami started publishing their games on the PC more often (Resident Evil 5, Street Fighter 4, Lost Planet, Devil May Cry 4 and even Metal Gear Solid:Rising)

That list makes me want to have sex with your face.

I didn't realize these games even existed!

I'm super excited for next year now.

 

[Zildjin81]

And lets be serious the only reason people have PCs are for info, news, World of Warcraft (Which I despise), The Escapist, buying stuff, and itunes./quote] You realize that those are the important things (well except for World of Warcraft) and that games are just dumb time wasters, right?

 

[Markgraf]

I must disagree with the OP and his correlating PC Games' death with decreasing market share of physical media. With the advent of Digital Distribution, the PC has simply increasingly disengaged itself from physical media as it establishes the future of entertainment retail. Plus, even if PC did lose its function as a game machine in the future, which is most likely not the case due to ever increasing compatibility between console and PC development tools (the PS3 being the exception due to Sony's greed*), you would still have a large catalog of games from 20-30 years, with the addition of console emulation. Therefore, the PC could simply have console emulators developed for it in order to play videogames, in lieu of actual ports.

*The above point is speculation that Sony intentionally made the PS3 harder to develop for in order to have developers focus more on PS3 versions of games, churning out mediocre ports, as they pinned for the PS3's utter market dominance.

 

[Erana]

PC gaming is slowly but efficiently dying. EVERY game sold on the PS3, Xbox 360, and the PC the PC always sells the least amount of copies. And lets be serious the only reason people have PCs are for info, news, World of Warcraft (Which I despise), The Escapist, buying stuff, and itunes. Besides those few things PC gaming is dying. The only people that enjoy are the crazed fanboys that every once in a while try to hump the disc drive. I admit I'll go back and play Half-life 2 every once in a while because I'm trying to pass the time til the next great console game comes out. Pcs were good for games then that went away, then they were good at customization in games and that went away, and now they're good only for porn.

I have a Steam open on my Mac.
I do not have Windows on my Mac.

The question is: Am I part of the problem?