General questions about PC gaming and supreme commander 2, and EB games canada

Well, amazon (finally) shipped me my gtx460 graphic card, and I got my computer playing dead rising 2/prince of persia, and perhaps a few others if vista stops crappin out on me. However im travelling to a larger city that has an EB games at it, and im hoping to trade in a few games. Can someone answer these questions briefly please?

1)Supreme commander 2-How many people play it now? Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands? Who updates it? Square enix (plz god no), or Steam?

2)PC gaming in general-I can understand how the xbox and ps3 would have a much larger gaming community, what about the PC, am I going to find a bunch of "below-radar" games unplayable online due to the lack of PC gamers?

3)EB games Canda. Does anyone have any experience with them? How do trade ins work? I have a dozen xbox360 games, and about 20 bucks. and im hoping to buy a few PC games with it

that wasn't the question I asked

1)Supreme commander 2-How many people play it now? Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands? Who updates it? Square enix (plz god no), or Steam?

s4spencer

• Not sure about the multiplayer, but Square Enix is just the publisher and Steam is just the distribution platform owned by Valve. Gas Powered Games developed the game, therefore they update and maintain it.

2)PC gaming in general-I can understand how the xbox and ps3 would have a much larger gaming community, what about the PC, am I going to find a bunch of "below-radar" games unplayable online due to the lack of PC gamers?

s4spencer

• General misconception. Big exclusive games on consoles will always have big communities, but overall console games don't typically have larger communities than the PC games. Once a developer stops supporting a game, the community begins to die down in ANY platfrom. On consoles, dedicated servers aren't always an option so if the developer kills the game, it's game over.
• Many old PC games still have a a couple 100 or more people playing (perhaps not all at once) despite the game developers no longer supporting the game, thanks to dedicated servers run by dedicated players of the game.

3)EB games Canda. Does anyone have any experience with them? How do trade ins work? I have a dozen xbox360 games, and about 20 bucks. and im hoping to buy a few PC games with it

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that wasn't the question I asked

s4spencer

• You asked for someone's experience. Perhaps that was their experience, so yes, they did answer part of your question. If that really wasn't part of your question then perhaps you need to restate it in a clearer manner.

EB Games Canada; you bring them your games, they look them up on their system and offer you anywhere from $1 to about 50% the current retail price of the game and if you are happy with the trade, they can give you a credit (Edge card) or apply the value towards a current purchase. Is it worth it? Depends on whether you want more money and you are willing to wait or deal with shipping (i.e., sell on ebay) or you just want to get rid of the game(s) fast. I did it with stack of PC games many years ago and was content since the trade eventiually got me Red Alert 3 and Starcraft II.

The PC gaming online community is much larger than any of the consoles actually.

Xbox live gold accounts are 1/2 of their total live accounts. That's 12 million people available to play games with.

Steam accounts: over 30 million.

Number of consecutive xbox accounts logged in: about 2 million.

Number of consecutive Steam accounts logged in: about 3 million.

And while on xbox 36- that's all she wrote, Steam is NOT representative of all online PC gaming.

Just recently, when Modern Warfare 2 came out, the devs commented on the forums, pointing out that there were more PC gamers playing the game online than there were console gamers playing it.

What PC gamers ARE however, are more varied. They are spread across a hundred games, while console gamers tend to cluster around 2 or 3 popular ones.

Well, all worked out pretty good, and thanks for the helpful answers about the amount of PC gamers (a few games id like to dig out and get for the PC, hopefully there should be a few players playing those :)

the first reply wasn't an answer though, I never asked if I was being ripped off, I asked how their trade ins worked, he just gave me a pretty random opinion like asking what a restraunts food taste like, he didn't say it was the best/worst in town, he told me it was expensive