Poll: Is PC gaming going to Die?

[OriginalJoeBlack]

Hello Dear Escapist.

My first thread, i hope i am not doin'it wrong.

So the matter is this: dont you think, that PC Gaming is slowly dying? I think: it does, and i am not happy about it.

Just look around you: PC features cut from Dragon Age 2, iD Software dropping PC support. And we dont have to talk about EA or Ubisoft with their copypasta, amrite?

At last we still got VALVe and Blizzard <3

What do you think? Are you a Console gamer and are you sorry for the PC users? Are you a PC gamer but it doesnt bother you, or are you like me, which is scared that this is happening?

 

[More Fun To Compute]

It looks like you are new to forums so you probably don't realise how overdone, boring and discouraging all these "is PC gaming dying" and "what about that piracy on PC" threads are. The answer is no. It's at least not any more likely than console gaming, phone gaming, handheld gaming or any other sort of electronic gaming you can mention.

 

[Fenring]

Anyone he is sure PC gaming will die any time soon has no idea why people prefer to buy a PC port of a game, or why many, if not most, hardcore gaming communities are PC based.

PC games may become more like their console equivalents, but there will always be a sizable group of people that wants to be on the bleeding edge of everything, and loves having awesome indie games like Minecraft and VVVVV. ALso, I could never see myself playing Sins of a Solar Empire or Dawn of War on a console. The great thing about PC development is that one or two people can easily make a game in a few years, and there will be a niche audience who, if this game is good, will revere it.

PC is great because it has freedom. Freedom to make your own game, freedom to make crazy rules for your server, freedom to run iTunes in the background and listen to podcasts whenever you want, and freedom to play in a window. The PC is all about freedom, and I don't think consoles will ever have near that level of freedom. And since I think a large amount of people value that freedom, there will always be a market to sell games to.

 

[bpm195]

The more important and less frequently debated is "Will people ever stop thinking that PC gaming is dying?"

 

[OriginalJoeBlack]

The more important and less frequently debated is "Will people ever stop thinking that PC gaming is dying?"

I do not really know, what do you mean by that. Years back everything was fine and i did not even consider thinking that i once will have to talk about this.

 

[AWAR]

Someone post that image please.

Thank you.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

Someone post that image please.

Thank you.

Ninja'd

But seriously, PC Gaming has and will always be around as long as RTS lives. And considering Starcraft 2, it sure as hell ain't going to die any time soon.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Darktau]

No, just no, you seen steam? You see it's this thing that has MASSES OF PC GAMES TO BUY! And by masses I mean masses, no, pc gaming is going no-where.

 

[Keava]

Yeah. The day pigs sprout wings and start flying. Sorry to burst everyone's bubble but PC gaming will not die for the simple reason PCs are still most viable and popular thanks to not being limited to just and only playing 'vidiogaems'.

As for the reasons you listed. DA2 is not getting features cut from PC version, it's just keeping it's more complex style while the console counterpart gets dumbed down, button-mashing oriented combat to suit the apparent trend among, what industry considers, majority of console gamers.

EA as far as i remember still is publisher for BioWare productions among many, and i doubt pumping money into SW:TOR is exactly abandoning PC platform.

Ubisoft, or idSoftware i couldn't care less. They rarely make games that appeal to me. They make their silly action-platformers and shooters as much as they want. Not my concern.

And modding community for PC titles is what will always keep that platform attractive, maybe when consoles add support for 3d design and digital art software thing could shift more into their favor.

 

[Reveras]

Starcraft has 2 more ummm ....parts. WoW Cataclysm is coming out at the end of the year or so, Guild Wars 2 next year. Yeah ...pc gaming sure is dying ....oh right, HL 2: EP 3 must come! ....IT MUST!

 

[jamesworkshop]

No to me a game lacking PC features would be one that turned around and said you won't get an option for any resolution over 1280x720p, I enjoyed Dragon age because of Alistair and Morrigans conflicting personalities not because I could watch them from a birds eye view.

Batman: AA
Darkstalkers
Dead space 2
Dead rising 2
Warhammer 40k space marine
Devil may cry 4
Prototype
resident evil 5
Street fighter 4

What business did any of them have on the PC, the first Dead Rising never even appeared on the PC but we are now getting a sequel, Darkstalkers has decided to make an appearance, Space Marine finally came out of the closet to reveal it's bi-platformality.

We are getting more games than ever before, in a wider variety of genres while still getting our Starcrafts and Warcrafts on, Portal 2, diablo 3, Shogun: Total war
are still waiting in the wings, SW:The Old Republic is set to become the next big MMO, one of the most commercialy sucessful genres that have really only found a good home on the PC.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/08/starcraft-2-sales-blitz-a-success-sales-crush-console-games.ars

StarCraft 2 sales blitz a success: sales crush console games
By Ben Kuchera | Last updated about 18 hours ago

There may be some flaws in StarCraft 2, but the market doesn't seem to care: the game has taken the number one sales slot in the United States in July, well above the best-selling console games. In fact, if you take the sales of NCAA Football 11 on both platforms and combine them, you get 692,000 units sold. Single-platform title StarCraft 2 sold 721,000 units.

The 721,000 figure was also reached during the last few days of July, as the game was released on the 27th.

 

[gl1koz3]

This question is ridiculous. A console is basically a PC. You just have a tad different software/hardware on it. But PC is where it all comes from.

Not to mention it is consoles who die every now and then (replaced by newer models, rendering old junk... junk).

 

[OriginalJoeBlack]

This is not going anywhere, first everyone does say that everything is fine, then again people start to complain that many features from the old days arent there because the devs say that " consoles cant take that".

Hello Dear Escapist.

My first thread, i hope i am not doin'it wrong.

So the matter is this: dont you think, that PC Gaming is slowly dying? I think: it does, and i am not happy about it.

Just look around you: PC features cut from Dragon Age 2, iD Software dropping PC support. And we dont have to talk about EA or Ubisoft with their copypasta, amrite?

At last we still got VALVe and Blizzard <3

What do you think? Are you a Console gamer and are you sorry for the PC users? Are you a PC gamer but it doesnt bother you, or are you like me, which is scared that this is happening?

actually console gaming dying. PC gaming is actually the most profitable platform EVER. it actually kicked the ass of the wii which is the MOST PROFITABLE CONSOLE. Console games are being pirated and are being sold used instead of new. the growing cost of console games are growing to be unsustainable and is leeching the little money left after the big cash cow of console gaming dried up. The PC however is staying the same and is actually ORGANIZING under the banner of steam.

Well, i dont know. Before a week, everyone was talking about how much console gaming is growing and that most of the developers are going to just "port" most of their games to the PC. Now again, everyone is talking that PC gaming is not dying, but is growing. But i really cant see, where this is growing. Most of the games in the past years did not bring anything new, and dont jump on me with some Mass Effect or Modern Warfare, or Crysis or anything. All these games where a dissapointment for me, all of them had just graphics to make people forgive for all the mistakes and copypasta content behind it.

 

[tomtom94]

With consoles becoming more and more like specialised PCs, it depends on whether the companies continue to back the PC as a platform, really.

I don't think it'll ever truly die, but eventually if support wanes like it has been then there may just be so few modern games left for it that it becomes unviable.

 

[OriginalJoeBlack]

No, just no, you seen steam? You see it's this thing that has MASSES OF PC GAMES TO BUY! And by masses I mean masses, no, pc gaming is going no-where.

I see you dont get what i am talking here about. Just because you see " its for the PC HORAAAY" doesnt mean it was primarly for the computer, nor that it will be good, just because STEAM does sell it.
And what does everyone have with that a few games in a year are actually good for the PC? From all the games that come out and COULD have been something, most of them are just-silly-ports for the PC that most of the players dont see, or just forgive the developer and go with the masses that say it is "epic".When it reality, it is junk.

 

[Sharkosauros]

It wont die imo >.<, plus consoles are some sort of computer, so yeah it wont die

 

[Exia91]

The more important and less frequently debated is "Will people ever stop thinking that PC gaming is dying?"

I do not really know, what do you mean by that. Years back everything was fine and i did not even consider thinking that i once will have to talk about this.

What he means to say is that people should stop thinking that PC-gaming is dying, because it is not! We see these topics almost weekly. "Less Frequently Debated" in his comment aims at the post/topics made about this subject. Atleast it does to me.

OT:
I do no think it's dying. If it were, why would developpers go through the trouble of even making games for the platform? Recent example, Maybe SC2? Maybe upcoming Cataclysm or other multi-million Dollar projects like GuildWars2?

 

[OriginalJoeBlack]

No to me a game lacking PC features would be one that turned around and said you won't get an option for any resolution over 1280x720p, I enjoyed Dragon age because of Alistair and Morrigans conflicting personalities not because I could watch them from a birds eye view.

Batman: AA
Darkstalkers
Dead space 2
Dead rising 2
Warhammer 40k space marine
Devil may cry 4
Prototype
resident evil 5
Street fighter 4

What business did any of them have on the PC, the first Dead Rising never even appeared on the PC but we are now getting a sequel, Darkstalkers has decided to make an appearance, Space Marine finally came out of the closet to reveal it's bi-platformality.

We are getting more games than ever before, in a wider variety of genres while still getting our Starcrafts and Warcrafts on, Portal 2, diablo 3, Shogun: Total war
are still waiting in the wings, SW:The Old Republic is set to become the next big MMO, one of the most commercialy sucessful genres that have really only found a good home on the PC.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/08/starcraft-2-sales-blitz-a-success-sales-crush-console-games.ars

StarCraft 2 sales blitz a success: sales crush console games
By Ben Kuchera | Last updated about 18 hours ago

There may be some flaws in StarCraft 2, but the market doesn't seem to care: the game has taken the number one sales slot in the United States in July, well above the best-selling console games. In fact, if you take the sales of NCAA Football 11 on both platforms and combine them, you get 692,000 units sold. Single-platform title StarCraft 2 sold 721,000 units.

The 721,000 figure was also reached during the last few days of July, as the game was released on the 27th.

I do agree that Portal 2 is "hot" and im looking forward to it. But what has everyone with StarCraft 2? I firstly never got into RTS games, just they dont fit my style. But as i see, it looks like just the old StarCraft, with a new story, new graphics, and thats all. And dont go on me with some: SW: The Old Republic. Everyone does pee himself for the game because BioWare is making it. And remember how many times people did say " the next big MMO"? Many times, and everything we got at the end was either a buggy game which tried to do something new ( Age of Conan for example), or remember Aion? Everyone did think it will be a " WoW Killer", and in reality it was just " WoW with a Japanese look". Same goes with most of the MMORPGS in the past years. Diablo 3? I dont know, i did enjoy Diablo 2, but before i will defend it everywhere, it has to come out.