They know that the majority of console gamers are gullible kids who will spend pocket money they get every weekend for doing the dishes for their parents on unnecesary gaming subscriptions so that they can be force fed adds, or leave content out of the full game in order to sell it to them later as payed DLC. This method of milking makes the $50 game they baught turn into and $80~ game.
PC gamers are playing their games on an open system that cant be easily monopolised and gamers on the PC cant be forced into paying subscriptions to host and play games using the bandwidth they already pay their ISP for ( as Microsoft found out when they tried getting PC gamers to pay for GFWL ). We wont have payed DLC rammed down our throats because we can and always have made our own DLC for free, ( AKA mods ) which is why companies are releasing mod tools later or not at all in an attempt to get us to buy their crappy $15 map packs or horse armor. Their efforts fail here too ( See GTAIV mods for example ).
This is why a few PC versions of multi-platform games are left out or end up getting delayed. Its also why when Microsoft bought Alan Wake it went from being a PC exclusive to PC/360 to 360 exclusive after the butt-hurt surrounding the Vista floppage and the failed GFWL effort. Companies want you to buy a console for those multi-platform games, they want to monopolise you, and they have more than succeeded on consoles, they aren't interested in pleasing fans, they just want your money and if you let them, they will milk you any way they can - like they do with the console gamers.
PC gamers will support the companies that support the PC gamers, and they will buy a game if they think the game is worth their money. Weather its video games or clothes for fat people, If companies continue to disrespect the people that buy their products then the buyers will stop buying from them. Lets not forget too that in order for games to sell well on consoles there has to be huge, EXPENSIVE marketing and add campaigns which make the whole thing a huge gamble for smaller dev studios as Black Rock discovered with Split Second AND Pure, as Khaos Studios found out with Homefront and Even EPIC and People can Fly found out with Bulletstorm.
If it isnt COD, Gears, Halo, Uncharted ect people arent that interested and soon those franchises will wear off, the kids will move onto something else leaving the developers to go off and "re-imagine" or "remaster" those games like Splinter Cell, Tomb Raider, Need4Speed ect and then spend loads of money on marketing and HYPE in an attempt to get you interested in buying them again. What happens if they fail? I suppose you could ask console centric developers like Krome Studios, Khaos Studios, Black Rock, LuxoFlux, Propoganda Games, 7 Studios, Visceral Studios in Melbourne, Digital Warrington, Blue Tongue entertainment, Team Bondi, Budcat Creations or Bizzare Creations if they where still around.
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