Poll: Will PC gaming thrive or dive?

[NotSoNimble]

Wow, people took this bait easily enough, eh?

PC gaming (on top of my other hobbies/vices) is a luxury i can't afford right now.

I don't think it will die any time soon tho. Just like this topic.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Also interested in your thoughts on what makes PC gaming better or worse than console gaming.

If this poll is already out there I apologize. I'm new.

Lol this thread has been done to death lol.

OT: I think PC has the DLC market cornered with Mods. But as for Connection to all others it's console gaming. Not saying no one uses PC for online gaming but not everyone has the money to buy Gaming Rigs.

IM sorry, I disagree. Its not been done to death, its been done to death, then to life, then to death, then reincarnated, then done to death again, then jumped on by a gnome, then raised as an undead lawyer, then done to a dead, dead. And then brought back by god himself to do this all over again.

And wow.. That poll is really, really biased. I mean either PC is just for Making games. Or you would NEVER abandon the PC. Or the PC is only for mature games, WTF IS THAT?

 

[Someone Depressing]

As long as there's RTS, FPS, and Simulation, there'll always be, PC Gaming.

 

[Hector Haddow]

pc gameing is not dead gust pc spesific games are becomeing scarce and are mostly limited to the indi market (minecraft, dwarf fortres...) rts and fully functional versions of the sims but 9/10 big releaces are multi platform nomaly including pc although there is sometimes a delay as some companys nameing no names (ubisoft-cough) makesure the retail pc version is as unplayable as posible in the name of drm despite the fact that coders will make cracks/custom installers no mater how complex the drm it may take them longer several months in the case of assins creed 2 but they did it so you are just as well using SecuROM or simalar non inrtusive drm as with some games it is easir to download and install ilegaly than to use a legiemate coppy

 

[veloper]

I's sooner expect Sony to drop out of the console business than the death of PC gaming.

PC gaming is doing very, very well, but for some reason people haven't caught up.

1. MMOs on the PC make more revenue than all the games on the Xbox360 combined.
2. casual gaming (games like farmville) on the PC, dwarfs Nintendo
3. on the triple-A front, nobody counts the digital downloads that amount to 50% of the AAA game sales in North America (and Valve keeps quiet about it while most of that money is flowing through them).

 

[Skizle]

"Will"? It already has. It's just that some people insist on dragging its corpse around, talking to it and telling everybody it's alive.
I'm sorry Steve, Hannah didn't make it. You need to accept it, bury her and move on. Continuing on this path just makes a mockery of her beautiful life.

Tell that to the 3 million people who got on Steam alone in the past 48 hours. It's not some people, it's millions and when millions of people are in a community, guess what? It's alive.

Thats 3 million plus the X million on Battle.net. Remember there is more to PC gaming than Steam. Also compare it to the X million of XBL and PSN accounts logged on. Just stating the facts.

That's why I said "who got on Steam ALONE". I don't know how many accounts on XBL or PSN logged in but there were 3 million people just on Steam for one point in the past 48 hours. Which proves my point that PC gaming isn't dying.

No it doesn't honestly. Battle.net more than doubles that. with over 12 million World of Warcraft accounts in their database and even if only half of those accounts are active it still doubles Steam. And thats just for ONE GAME, their is also the rest of Blizzard's line up that havent been added in. That is more proof that PC gaming isn't dying.