Is PC gaming dead?

[Galdorf]

Just look at bittorrent sites nothing posted for almost a year check big box stores one tiny shelf, some none at all.
Reason why steam and EA ,EA has killed the pc gaming market just look at Sims 4 for example they removed half the game?? and tried to sell it at twice the price.
Many people who bought it are now looking for a refund why every time they release a new patch you loose your save game and it full of bugs really bad game breaking bugs EA had them rush it out it was not ready.

 

[lan101]

It seems to be compared to 10-15 years ago. I remember when quake 3 and i think even doom 3 were pc exclusives. I don't game like I did when I was younger. Ps3 suits me fine and probably in a year or so I'll get ps4.

 

[LifelineIT]

Lol. Pc master race still gets all the good stuff. Nothing posted for a year on the BT scene? What?

 

[mrapoc]

Steam have saved PC gaming. Nobody I know torrents steam games as the pricing especially in sales is so cheap. Why bother!

 

[JustInspired]

Coincidentally I had to remove some components from a rig today and install some new ones that were brought in by a customer.

I removed an 850 watt psu and two GTX 770's in sli mode to install a 1300 watt psu and a R9 295x2 (along with its closed loop water cooling system).
The power requirements for this card are crazy!
Needless to say I did the job very methodically and carefully. Didn't want to mess up a £1000 graphics card!

For this client, PC gaming is anything but dead.

 

[phaZed]

Definitely not dead. I get plenty of hardcore and casual gamers. Just like movies and music, gaming is all online now when it comes to distribution. I buy all my games on Steam and Origin.

Nothing posted for a year on the BT scene? What?

I second this notion.

 

[cypress]

Can't say its dead although the ps4 and Xbox have shifted it to console mostly.

 

[Krynn72]

Considering from October 2013 to January 2014 Steam gained 10 million users bringing it up to 75 million at the start of this year, I'd say its like the Computer Repair industry, not dead despite people seeming to think it is. PC gaming has also had people claiming it's doom for nigh on a decade now and its done nothing of the sort. Consoles grew faster, thats for damn sure (though Steam is catching up to top dog Sony with their 110million PSN users). The whole industry is still growing, including PC.

 

[commodore64]

PC gaming is not dead, I just got an nvidia gtx 780 video card, its stunning and 10 times the power of the wannabe consoles. Not to mention modding on pc games, I run skyrim with 255 mods, enbs, whatever i want, its amazing. Ive turned so many customers from consoles to pc gaming. I've even had customers have me build them skyrim mod setups. Steam is awesome ,crazy deals, get games really cheap. My average customer has 100's of steam games, many never played but simply purchased for cheap price. Not to mention pc gaming is pretty much the same interface as consoles since you can use ps3 and xbox controllers on almost any game on pc now. I have customers bringing in 2000 dollar gaming systems pretty frequently now. If anything, any gamer with smarts is thinking the consoles are dead, now a ps4 is just a 400 dollar box that my 2 year old under 200 dollar gtx 660 card will destroy in any graphics display. Granted the total gaming pc price is higher, but i get more use from the system than just gaming, and the gaming is excellent!

 

[ohio_grad_06]

Yep. I think steam helps. PC having can be expensive but one you are past the system price it's not bad. Plus your games keep working on the next system etc. Steam sales help a lot too. I know I had a ps3 for a while and ps3 was great but after a while I got bored and traded it to game stop for like 80 bucks. The pc is the platform I keep coming back to. I can upgrade and make my games have better experiences. Plus there are also a lot of free to play pc games if I get bored with my steam games.

 

[Galdorf]

The number of game releases for the pc had gone down to maybe one every 3 years and anything worth playing once every 5 years, not talking about mmo's.
The quality of the releases are very poor take the Sims 4 for example i have found over 300 bugs some hugely game breaking and glaring I'm not even sure how this got past QA testing it's like they didn't play the game or something.
Maybe not as bad as Outpost from Seirria where the game was shipped without an ai it was a command and conquer type game problem was there were only modems at the time the patch was 50 megs so it took days at 14.4 baud.
I think MMO's might be the cause of pc gaming market collapse most game studios got bought out and cannibalized by EA even console game designers.
Even with consoles the games getting released crash seems quality has gone downhill even with Sony i have seen people bring back console games for refunds because they keep crashing every few minutes.
What happens now PC owners buy Sims 4 online, play Sims 4 for a day then ask for a refund because it is soooo buggy for some they can't even launch the game this seems to be the norm in PC game market.

 

[phaZed]

I see the Sims keeps getting noted here.. I don't really care for that type of game, but I gave it the old college try a few times and it was nothing but buggy and half-a$$ed in all of it's releases if you ask me. That being said, "The Sims" should not be your barometer of the PC gaming industry.

 

[Rosco]

i love gaming on the pc. i do not have a console. Love stream sometimes i buy games just because they are so cheap! The real reason pc gaming is the best is the modding. I play a lot of falllout new vegas. I add new quests all the time. The versatility of the pc really makes it stand out. Also after i beat a game without any cheating i like to play it again with cheats. Cheat engine allows you to do pretty much anything.

 

[SpaceSquad]

I am PC-gaming only.

Even get to play a lot of games under Linux now thanks to Steam.

 

[Screwloose]

PC gaming is far from dead ... I play MMOs and FPS games mostly and I pretty much hate gaming on a console. Plus I get games off Steam and Origin all the time since they are so cheap.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

PC gaming only. First person shooters on the PC simply cannot be matched by console.

Or flight combat sims....take War Thunder for example!

 

[ohio_grad_06]

I find myself liking Planetside 2. Though recently I've revisited Empire Total War and Napoleon Total War. Games like that have replay because if you get into them, things don't always turn out the same. Besides that, if you mod and unlock smaller factions then you can make it a more challenging game. Kind of fun to try to take someone that has like 1 territory and see if you can conquer a larger country and then try to build up troops in order to defend yourself before the other countries come after you to kill you off. Makes it fun.

 

[bertie40]

I think part of the problem is the mistrust a lot of users have over PC games generally.

More often than not, a lot of users have been stung with downloadable games which are riddled / bundled with malware.

Maybe steam is saddled with that label ?

So they see consoles as the safer alternative.

Some of my customers have installed malware-partnered games, but they insist they are ok as they are "on a disk", thinking that gives the software credibility.

I admit I'm not a gamer in the strictest sense and prefer an occasional non-committal blast on the Xbox. Frankly, I just can't be bothered with a dedicated PC.

Convenience plays a major part, as I prefer mayhem on the lounge TV as opposed to the smaller PC screen.

Hardware-wise, there are far more casual gamers than hardcore ones, who will happily invest in a Multi-use console as opposed to a dedicated machine. This is reflected in the targeted marketing towards consoles.

Hard core gamers make up the minority, but have a very loud voice, hence the "token" PC releases to keep them onside. Not that that works anymore.

I'll give steam a try, maybe that will alter my perspective.

Edit : Posters, please, use punctuation and spaces.
It makes everything so so much easier to read.

 

[LifelineIT]

What's kinda also cool about PC gaming right now is the flood of high-enjoyability, low-requirement sorta-retro (mostly indy) games.

I've been playing Project Zomboid some, good lord---it's The Sims on Super Hard Mode with Zombies and Permadeath. Then you've got games like Torchlight II and Super Meat Boy and Beat Hazard and Trine and any of a zillion others that are all about the game and less about the eye candy. Really, really nifty.

 

[frase]

No not dead, just piracy is easier and ISP plans are larger. Yea Stonecat, IL Sturmkovik, is still awesome.
Waiting for new Elite to be released.. Pew pew
Only console games I play is Coinops on original Xbox lol, just a dedicated Emulator machine.