12 Ways Consoles Are Hurting PC Gaming

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http://www.maximumpc.com/article/12_ways_consoles_are_hurting_pc_gaming

Or was it? PC gaming is far from dying, but not for a lack of effort on consoles' parts. While consoles have doubtless aided in bringing videogames to the masses, they've also slowly but surely molded gaming in their own image. The end result? Well, stories like the one above, for starters. But that's only the tip of the iceberg. Jump past the break for consoles' most egregious crimes against our hobby.
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Not a PC gaming is dying thread and i'll wait for the reply " i wonder how long it would take before this post got here "

:p

Current console tech is at least five years-old – except for the Wii, whose innards' shelf date came and went shortly after shelf dates were invented. In the big-budget gaming sector, that fact is unavoidable.
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lol :D
 
Instead of appreciating the combination of blood, sweat, and tears that's been wrung from the past three years of some poor developer's life, we argue over which platform's “the winner.” We call each other names. We climb up on our soapboxes to rant about, well, different boxes. But really, why does it even matter? Simple: it doesn't. Believe it or not, this hobby's about having fun – not raining on other people's parades. Let's not lose sight of that fact.
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12 Ways Consoles Are Hurting PC Gaming
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Crazy, this sheds new light on the console vs PC argument - no one had made these discoveries yet!
 
Ah yes, the standard-bearer for the “well clearly, if console gamers like it, PC gamers will love having it forced upon them too” movement. Calling Games for Windows a trainwreck wouldn't be doing it justice, because trainwrecks eventually end. We prefer to think of GFW as a trainwreck that collided with a car wreck that collided with a plane wreck that collided with the Large Hadron Collider. At every turn, it's tried to give PC gaming an Xbox Live makeover, and PC gamers have been unsurprisingly outraged. After all, if we wanted an Xbox, we would have bought a friggin' Xbox. Please, though, Microsoft, none of that silly Avatar busine-- oh. Oh no.
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i lol'd
 
going to add one thing to this thread, no doubt get complained about for it but balls. times change, adapt or perish, so either accept things change or just stop complaining and stop playing games, nobody is forcing it upon you. :rolleyes:
 
Gashman said:
going to add one thing to this thread, no doubt get complained about for it but balls. times change, adapt or perish, so either accept things change or just stop complaining and stop playing games, nobody is forcing it upon you. :rolleyes:
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Adapt? You're asking us to attempt devolution!
 
High street retail's dash for second hand game revenue has hurt PC gaming so much, simply because DRM and CD keys prevent second hand sales of PC software.

When you can make loads of money by recycling the same few console games over and over again, PC games look much less attractive because they can only be sold once.

Of course it's partly retailers dropping PC games that have caused the dash to digital distribution, which they're now complaining about!
 
Ravenger said:
High street retail's dash for second hand game revenue has hurt PC gaming so much, simply because DRM and CD keys prevent second hand sales of PC software.

When you can make loads of money by recycling the same few console games over and over again, PC games look much less attractive because they can only be sold once.

Of course it's partly retailers dropping PC games that have caused the dash to digital distribution, which they're now complaining about!
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This.
 
Ravenger said:
High street retail's dash for second hand game revenue has hurt PC gaming so much, simply because DRM and CD keys prevent second hand sales of PC software.

When you can make loads of money by recycling the same few console games over and over again, PC games look much less attractive because they can only be sold once.

Of course it's partly retailers dropping PC games that have caused the dash to digital distribution, which they're now complaining about!
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Do games companies get secondary/tertiary/etc royalties from the sale of pre-owned games by retailers?

If not, surely they should be moaning about that rather than piracy?
 
krooton said:
Do games companies get secondary/tertiary/etc royalties from the sale of pre-owned games by retailers?

If not, surely they should be moaning about that rather than piracy?
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They don't. They are introducing the equivalent of day 1 DLC though which the initial purchaser can activate but the second hand buyer must pay for.
 
Gashman said:
going to add one thing to this thread, no doubt get complained about for it but balls. times change, adapt or perish, so either accept things change or just stop complaining and stop playing games, nobody is forcing it upon you. :rolleyes:
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You don't have to accept any of these, there are number of games that don't follow the console trend.
 
krooton said:
Do games companies get secondary/tertiary/etc royalties from the sale of pre-owned games by retailers?

If not, surely they should be moaning about that rather than piracy?
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they are they're thinking of introducing codes that mean you have to pay £10 to re enable multiplayer.
 
It'll be funny if that starts there own demise. People who buy second hand aren't suddenly going to pay full price for an original copy. I mean really, if even supermarkets are starting to accept game trade-ins so they can sell preowned copies its obvious its a fairly lucrative business and a main part of why they offer so many games. Once they lose that i can't see them stocking as many...
 
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