PC gaming is dead, long live PC Gaming.
Posted 24-06-2008 at 01:01 PM by Kelborn
I've been reading a lot lately of the death of PC Gaming, the dirty assassin Piracy has crept up behind the king and stabbed him in the painful bits.
Honestly, it's complete rubbish. The problem is that the retail stores are seeing their PC Games sales drop because people are using services like EA Link or Steam to download their games. These sales figures are not included in the Retail figures so the statistics are skewed. Making the PC market look about as strong as the Sega Dreamcast market!
Anyway, I've always been a PC gamer, except when I had my Sega Mega Drive. (I was only 6!) and although I see the advantages of both, I also see all the platforms heading in a direction that I like. The downloadable content and games direction.
Also, while I'm on here, I'd like to ask you all the rhetorical question of why I have to pay 50 euros for a game on EA link when the American Link users get it for just 50 dollars.
Worse off are the British users who have to pay in pounds.
Honestly, it's complete rubbish. The problem is that the retail stores are seeing their PC Games sales drop because people are using services like EA Link or Steam to download their games. These sales figures are not included in the Retail figures so the statistics are skewed. Making the PC market look about as strong as the Sega Dreamcast market!
Anyway, I've always been a PC gamer, except when I had my Sega Mega Drive. (I was only 6!) and although I see the advantages of both, I also see all the platforms heading in a direction that I like. The downloadable content and games direction.
Also, while I'm on here, I'd like to ask you all the rhetorical question of why I have to pay 50 euros for a game on EA link when the American Link users get it for just 50 dollars.
Worse off are the British users who have to pay in pounds.
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