Is PC gaming dying?....

Stelly

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Hey Guys,

ONLY joking!! :D

Found this an interesting read:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...-market-to-exceed-USD25-billion-this-year-dfc

The PC gaming market is growing which is always good for us especially when its worth $25,000,000,000 :eek:. Just shows even with PC sales on the down turn us PC gamers are still going strong, it brought a smile to my face :)

On worse news the meddling Europeans are stopping our games industry from growing with the EU investigation into tax breaks, even though the French gives their farmers and car industry plenty of them!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26016797

Excuse the title of this thread, I couldnt help myself ;)

Stelly
 
PC gaming is booming and that's great news.

The meddling Europeans (you are one too, Liverpool was firmly positioned in Europe when I last checked) are just doing their job. The claim that the investigation prevents the industry from growing is laughable, at best.

Activision closed down a studio which was making a Call of Duty mobile spin-off, a tragedy of astronomical proportions!

This is just an example of powerful corporations using their tendrils to lobby for tax cuts. The only ones who can hold back the gaming industry are developers/publishers themselves.
 
Zethor said:
The meddling Europeans (you are one too, Liverpool was firmly positioned in Europe when I last checked) are just doing their job. The claim that the investigation prevents the industry from growing is laughable, at best.
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Lies! I'm British and proud of it ;)

Stelly
 
The claim that the investigation prevents the industry from growing is laughable,
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FSA forced WMD from taking any more backers even though their business model is was very consumer friendly and much better than the kickstarter crap

the people who are supposed to be protecting consumers don't always do what's in our best interest
 
I personally moved up from console to pc within last few years so it increased.by one atleast ;-)
 
Its not dying, its changing into something that (for me personally) means it may as well die. There's only a few oasis of innovation remaining in a desert of banality left.
 
FrenchTart said:
Did you read more than the thread title? :p
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Honestly, no! But its still relevant (to me anyway). No amount of figures of generated revenue makes it a healthy scene. Its swamped with rehashes and unimaginative generic FPS's, the fact they generate 5000 squillion groats a second is pretty much irrespective.
 
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LOAM said:
Honestly, no! But its still relevant (to me anyway). No amount of figures of generated revenue makes it a healthy scene. Its swamped with rehashes and unimaginative generic FPS's, the fact they generate 5000 squillion groats a second is pretty much irrespective.
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I know what you mean and I agree with you to be honest. I'm finding that nothing can keep my attention. The resurgence of "indie" games did for a while but that was kind of short-lived too.
 
If PC gaming has been dying over the last 10 years (pretty much the same tired line we have had repeated to us since the Xbox and PS2 came onto the scene) then it has surely been one of the most successful deaths in history.

Goes to show how much of that talk was retarded nonsense. The PC is the universal platform - console are sidelined into the Western World while the proliferation of the personal computer is expanding ever outwards. Open platforms will and always will continue to destroy closed ones.
 
FrenchTart said:
I know what you mean and I agree with you to be honest. I'm finding that nothing can keep my attention. The resurgence of "indie" games did for a while but that was kind of short-lived too.
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Me too mate... the last one to keep my attention was Tomb Raider (the new one) and that had a fantastic story in my opinion :)

Stelly
 
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