PC gaming is dying or close to dead already. There is no dedicated PC devs, all the devs ran to where the money is, consoles, mobile, or even changing their occupation altogether.
Compare to PC gaming from 2010-2015 to back in 2000-2005
Back in 2000-2005 or even 1990s-2007 or so you had games back to back in quality you could play every year, it kind of felt like the great games just kept coming and this without any mention of console games or ports, back then ports were kinda rare
Now we make such a HUGE deal out of 1 release a year or so it seems like and it's probably a port that we pray isn't shitty, forget about it being a good port, we are just okay that it can play beyond 30 fps.
I'm pretty sure piracy had a big part to do with this shift of all the devs switching to other platforms such as consoles or phones or even web browser games, I don't really blame them since they were getting up to 70% of what they should have made taken away from them by the people consuming their content
Even back then I used to agree with the, "that's not a lost sale, they weren't going to buy the game anyway" but now after seeing the aftermath and what PC gaming has become I can only imagine if all those people who really enjoyed a lot of those games they thought were so iconic or great actually had paid for those games, that the PC gaming industry would be a lot different than it is today.
Now we're left with 90% of the games that are being released today from indie devs that make these "interesting" games that hardly anyone plays, a bunch of online survival early access games that never becomes finished, and or mobas copying each other. That leaves the rest of the 10% of all current games coming out to, "Big major triple A games" that take maybe up to 2 years to come out after the console version and is probably not ported right
What happened to all the dedicated PC games that were a fresh breath of air into the genre they were in, instead of games just blatantly copying each other
I remember back in 2005 or 2006 or so I could play triple A games back to back without any sign of running out for those years
Now I just hope there's better games next year after being so let down "this year" and every new year is "this year"
EDIT: Also this FORUM alone used to be so much more fun back in those times 2000-2007, the PC section alone was the biggest community compared to all the other sub forums on gamespot, the PC section of news coverage or reviews had just as much or if not, more content than the console section.
Everyday on the gamespot PC forum there would be 3-4 new pages of new or "Hot" topics where as compared today, you see all the same topics for about 1-2 months long.
How is it dying? Not even close. There are plenty of PC exclusive devs. Or at least, devs that prioritizes the PC like CD Projekt Red. The only things that truly has changed is how we have a lot of indie games and a couple of AAA games coming out regularly. The in-between, midrange releases are about as rare as ever. And how devs seems comfortable with releasing unstable games since they can just patch it more easily than ever. But this only affects you if you can't handle not buying the game Day 1. Because of the newly installed refund policies on Steam and Origin, the consumer has a lot more power now.
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