2010/2011: The rebirth of PC gaming?


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I dont think I am alone in this. PC gaming activity has jumped considerably the last 6-10 months. Microsoft just announced their first PC games in months if not years with the return of Microsoft Flight Simulator and Age of Empire Series which was deemed dead when Ensemble with dissolved. Also with a huge sales of StarCraft II and the upcoming Diablo III series. Fable 3 is now coming to PC as well after Fable 2 missed out. Capcom is also bringing Lost Planet series after a long time. Is it just me or is PC gaming making a huge come back after being put on the backburner for the last 4-5 years

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I was thinking about this before and couldn't decide if we were coming out of the usual summer lull or if PC gaming was having an upturn.

Rebirth is a bit strong though if it is happening. I think resurgence is a better word. I don't believe the market ever went away. Some of the big publishers believed the marketing men and industry "experts" that PC gaming was dead and shifted their titles away. However the market was still there. Also people saw how much cash WoW was making and I think that can't be ignored.

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PC gaming is still going strong, it never died. Only difference is a few games lately have been more noticeable, especially to people who haven't been gaming in awhile.

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CIV V and my PC will be alive again :) Many many hours lost, just gotta get a divorce first so I can play in peace ;)

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I think it might be for a couple of reasons. Mainly

1. PC games are now cheaper than they used to be

2. Steam

3. Multiplatformers are better now on PC than on consoles

4. Consoles now look dated after 5 years on the market

5. Real gamers hate the motion revolution which all 3 console makers are now pushing thus a lot of hardcores are moving back to the roots, PC gaming

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And then we all die in 2012. Awesome. :laugh:

PCs are back baby! :D

2012 FTW

its comming back due to a few reasons.

Steam #1

Windows For Live #2

Blizzard.net #3

EA Manger/Store #4

UBI Soft #5

all majory players are useing tools that now (All the majory players are now forcuing you to link and then for-fit your CD-key to there own system) as well (UBI soft bad for this as well as ea on some titles. Force you to be alwazs online to be able to even play Single PLayer) SC2 is guitly for this as well...

compines in the PC sector have officail cut the UsedMarket out. On top of thta not worried about piriets downlaod there titles. SC2 is a grate example of this.. sure some one mite downlaod it.. but for what SIngle player? Due to the fact there no lan support downlaoding this title is useless in a lot of ways unless your not into Mulitplaer.. then again who playes on the pc that dose not play mulitplayer?

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Most of the stuff is just going to be console ports. :/

This is precisely why PC gaming is dead.

It used to be where the PC was the lead development platform for games. And while obviously games are still made on the PC, the PC isn't what is tested first and foremost. It's the 360 and PS3 that are going to get the attention, and rightly so -- the sales there are far better, there isn't as much piracy (I don't care what anyone says, it does impact sales), and you don't have to worry about compatibility issues. It still ****es me off as a longtime PC gamer, but I own a 360 and it gets most of my attention simply for that reason now.

I have simply stopped buying PC games except from developers that I'm 100% sure I can trust. Basically, for me, that means Valve. Blizzard obviously as well, since they're still PC exclusive, but I'm not too into their stuff. But other developers? I'm so tired of crappy ports. I'm so tired of them not supporting 16:10 resolutions when it is something developers can easily implement. I'm tired of HUDs being stretched instead of made at a high resolution. I'm so tired of having my mouse buttons other than the big three (left, right, scroll wheel -- and sometimes the latter isn't even supported) not working. I'm so tired of not having dedicated servers. I'm so tired of not having quick save.

PC gaming is dead. You all can tout big-name games still coming to the PC, but until developers take the time on the platform (at least as much as they devote solely to the 360 and PS3), it's not coming back. You can't even trust former PC exclusive developers like Epic and iD anymore.

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i think people thought PC gaming is dead b/c there were a couple Op Eds or blogs about it online. Then everyone's like "what if?" and makes their own opinion.

yeah it's not as popular as consoles. i'll speak for myself, but i still do the majority of my gaming on PC. I havent played a full game on PS3 since the spring...

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hmmm pc are not all ports.. its true that COD MW2 as indead a real cheap useless Port.

But the following titles are not ports

FFIX (being released on pc first and then followign few months to the ps3)

Microsoft Flight PCV only

MoH

NFS HP

Civ V

AoE Online

Black OPS (this in fact will not be a port and will be infact diffrent then the Console side)

F.3.A.R

I could list more..

What is DEAD is the PS3. Only reason why I say this is Sony already annouced that games are alread being develpoied for hte PS4 its sad when one looks at the ps3 libery of game.. hmmm ya were is that libery again

I really hope that the PSN works on the PS4 so all my bought stuff can be download on the new ps4 when it comes out... I really hope it sitll has a blu-ray in it so I ca play my ps3 titles on it as well. Thats the bigest issue with console... NO backword Compaible.

will the pc if I fined my title will not load on the current OS I just fire up a Vmware and away I go.. with todays hardware running a smooth and lag fre VM is too easy.

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What is DEAD is the PS3. Only reason why I say this is Sony already annouced that games are alread being develpoied for hte PS4 its sad when one looks at the ps3 libery of game.. hmmm ya were is that libery again

When did they announce they are developing for the PS4?

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u must have missed it

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GameCom

Quote :Sonys already admitted its working on new hardware, while Nintendo president Satoru Iwatas said his company is studying and developing the next console to Wii.:

https://www.neowin.net/news/playstation-4-games-in-development-says-sony

What's your point?

The PS3 is far from dead.

It takes years to develop hardware. Microsoft will have started designing the 360 successor already. The only difference is that Microsoft has been quiet about it.

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I'm not 100% against console ports. Call of Duty MW2 for example it has some bad areas (like only P2P servers, no modding, no 3rd party maps) but it also has some good areas for instance it runs brilliantly on even dated PC hardware. Stuff from 2006-2007 can happily run the game at very nice graphical detail and that is precisely because the game was made with old consoles in mind (And the 360 and PS3 are a fair few years old now). We had to sacrifice on some standard PC features but we got a game that we didn't need to break the bank to play. You can't say the same thing about Crysis or Metro 2033.

So although I'm against console ports I'm not 100% against them. I'm happy to have a console port than no game at all.

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I think it might be for a couple of reasons. Mainly

1. PC games are now cheaper than they used to be

2. Steam

3. Multiplatformers are better now on PC than on consoles

4. Consoles now look dated after 5 years on the market

5. Real gamers hate the motion revolution which all 3 console makers are now pushing thus a lot of hardcores are moving back to the roots, PC gaming

steam has been around for 6 years now, from the last peak of pc gaming to nowadays. still i get your point.

2012 FTW

its comming back due to a few reasons.

Steam #1

Windows For Live #2

Blizzard.net #3

EA Manger/Store #4

UBI Soft #5

all majory players are useing tools that now (All the majory players are now forcuing you to link and then for-fit your CD-key to there own system) as well (UBI soft bad for this as well as ea on some titles. Force you to be alwazs online to be able to even play Single PLayer) SC2 is guitly for this as well...

compines in the PC sector have officail cut the UsedMarket out. On top of thta not worried about piriets downlaod there titles. SC2 is a grate example of this.. sure some one mite downlaod it.. but for what SIngle player? Due to the fact there no lan support downlaoding this title is useless in a lot of ways unless your not into Mulitplaer.. then again who playes on the pc that dose not play mulitplayer?

ubisfot is actually big turn off for pc gamers. yeah it's great they port games to the pc, but hte DRM kills it and leaves gamers frustrated and annoyed.

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u must have missed it

Playstation%204.jpg

GameCom

Quote :Sony?s already admitted it?s working on new hardware, while Nintendo president Satoru Iwata?s said his company is ?studying and developing the next console to Wii?.:

http://www.neowin.ne...pment-says-sony

Well they're not going to sit around twiddling their thumbs are they?

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