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I think it's really dead this time high end that is.
Righteous_Rock
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I feel like the mobile market, f2p, paid alpha, and never ending beta has decimated pc gaming. A quick look at what's on the horizon in the pc gaming world leads me to believe, it's dead we just aren't admitting it. The excitement is centered around mobile games and new tablets that can run old games on min settings.
Edit , it's high end that is dead, or exclusive pc only content, moba I could hardly ever count as a game because I think they are boring, but today I don't have to count them as a pc game because you can play them on a tablet.
Edit , it's high end that is dead, or exclusive pc only content, moba I could hardly ever count as a game because I think they are boring, but today I don't have to count them as a pc game because you can play them on a tablet.
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Edit: Though I share your concern for the rest of PC gaming.
You are in the minority... which is why they don't make games based on what people on this site want.
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Besides graphics, why play on PC? With my Xim-4 I can play on the console using a keyboard and mouse. Many MMO's are now showing up on consoles too. Look at the three biggest games released over the last year, Destiny, Black Ops 3 and Fallout 4. Besides modding for Fallout, what is the benefit to buying them on PC?
PC Gaming will never go away but as game developers continue to turn the benefits of gaming on PC's into cash grabs like buying map packs and bringing their games to the console, it will slowly continue to lose popularity.
What is hurting PC gaming more than anything is shady practice and lack of solid foundations of the game design. The genre has been stuck in a rut for years so almost everything coming out is just a rehash of existing designs.
Also, the industry is so volatile now that the risk is to high to invest in anything so there is this dry period that may last a long time.
Just my 2 copper.
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I don't get how people can play games on calculator size of displays and even pay money for it.
Really its consoles that are threatened, not PC's. They are and always have been entertainment gimmicks, nothing more. As long as Steam can get their shit together and make the steamOS viable it will take a good chunk out of the console market. Then the only thing keeping people buying them is exclusive titles, not functionality.......its actually already getting that way.
Though it is very true that game functionality and quality is better on consoles, but that is because the console companies are enforcing their own quality control on products released on their machines. If we finally forced digital products to be beholden to the same consumer protection laws as physical goods are we would not have the problem.
I self identify as a monkey.
PC GAMING RESURRECTED HYPE!! HYPE!!!!
seriously tho these topics are so anoying, maybe its this whole forum I find anoying and should stay away from... 99pct of the topics are negative people writing a single 10000 word post saying what they do not enjoy rather than what they do enjoy.
Every time I think of lets check mmorpg.com I am confronted with a homepage showing recent topics that are all negative and when you click on them people actually are all agreeing with and saying what they do not like ASWELL, spend ur time writing about games/features u dont like... WIN!
As for mobile gaming, these has always been an audience for simple puzzle games since the beginning of gaming. Its a larger market than some people understand. Even in 2002, we understood that Internet puzzle games represented a 20 million player market of mostly 40+ year old women. These games also translate well to mobile games.
Isn't objective truth more valuable to you than having +1 troll post on the internet?
"What is truly revealing is his implication that believing something to be true is the same as it being true. [continue]" -John Oliver
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Rule of nature is to evolve and progress otherwise you'll extinct. The day PCs hardware stop to progress and evolve you can start worrying about PC gaming might end.
I think this is due to the fact that there is a real and measurable slowdown in hardware upgrades. Moore's law hasn't been relevant for years.
Indie games also doesn't help, they are dragging the quality of PC games down, this isn't happening on consoles to the same extent.
PC gamers buy trash.
PC gamers support the industry of half-finished games, indie trash, failed kickstarter projects, bugged games, F2P ripoffs, microtransaction MMO from Korea that last 2 months, etc.
PCs have become the dumping ground for low quality games because PC gamers, for some inexplicable reason, are not standing up to indie / steam and kickstarter crap.
PCs are the platform for basement programmers. It's the platform where 4 people can make an unfinished low quality kickstarter MMO.
When you buy and support trash, you will keep getting trash.