How do you see PC Gaming in 10-25 years?

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Beats me. I don't think that far ahead for something I consider a time waster. But near term like the next two years? It's fine.

I see the return of DRM free games. Eventually EA will fall into its place and steam will be optional for most games. GOG is taking the first steps.

EA thinks DRM is the soloution to pirating.

I see PC Gaming much as it is now: The place where freedom still reigns and where innovation happens. I see PC as still being the superior choice for gaming. I see it making more and more money each year as it has been the last few years.

In 25 years I'll most likely be dead, so it won't matter to me. :/ Over the next 10 years, however, I believe PC gaming will become digital only, and probably become entirely online for all games from big publishers. Indie developers will continue to grow and innovate, and adapt more rapidly to the changing market.

OnLive isn't very good at the moment, but as technology and bandwidth improves, I think that kind of streaming service will unfortunately become more prevalent. High street game retailers will become a thing of the past as they fail to adapt and compete with digital-only services. Some of the large game publishers will also have to adapt and change their business model.

Steam will have to compete with more digital distribution services set up by the big publishing houses, and may lose access to future games from those publisher's catalogues as the publishers continue to cut out the middle man to maximise profit margins. This has already started with EA and Blizzard.

GOG will find it harder to compete, unless they can radically boost their catalogue of titles.

As tablets become more powerful, more people will switch to them for their mobile gaming needs.

Thankfully I have a decent game collection, so no matter what happens in the future that I may not like, I can always fall back on that.

Dayum, how old are you people when you say in 25 years you'll be dead? 60?xxninja666xx

I'm 45, but I have chronic health issues. :/

How do you see PC Gaming in 10-25 years?tjricardo089

As it is now ... falling behind and being plain stupid due to the terrible ports that the major developers are feeding us. Crossing my fingers for the indie devs though. They are perhaps the main reason why I am still putting up with this PC cr*p those ports are that we call "games". I do hope for EA and GFWL to kick the bucket by then too ... if those are gone from the market perhaps we could see a bright future. Aside from that - only digital games, no more boxed copies since the idea is enviroment-friendly. full DRM on games with constant internet connection, making the pirates' a living hell.

But that's just me being silly ...

the old prophecies that talk about the death of pc gaming will finally come true :P

Another topic obviously made just for amassing as many replies as possible. Anyways, why do you care?

pc gaming will have undergone the least change. everything else will become more like pc gaming.Kh1ndjal

10 years, Gonna have to agree. Its Consoles that have strived to be closed platformed PCs, not PCs that strive to be bigger, more powerful versions of consoles.

The line between Console and PC, has been becoming more blurred with each new console released.

25 years, lol at the rate we are going honestly, the global economy would have crumbled. So a lot of us, might ony see videogames as a memory.

Big publishers will wake up or through kickstarters, there will be zero need for them.

Call of Duty 47 will be released.

Input devices controlled through thought will be in version 1.

3D without any glasses or anything goofy will be the norm.

Our monitors, besides being 3D, will also be full touch screen.

Windows 16 will have HAL abilities where you can in normal voice simply tell your PC what to do, totally hassle and glitch free most of the time.

We still won't have fully destructible environments.

Games will be dumbed-down (or streamlined) even more than they already are and will be playable by lobotomized lab rats.

Well, PC releases won't have physical options available for purchase in the future.

There will be more alternative services to Steam. They are coming slowly.