Whilst those same suits are now beginning to recognise the PC as THE fastest growing platform with Windows 8 Apps, Steam, Onlive, Gaikai, millions of legacy series that are more loved today by fans than the execs who abandoned them and resigned the once great PC talent of Infinity Ward , DICE ,Treyarch et al to make call of honor 12 hardened battle softcore casual edition could ever imagine.
For over a decade those execs believed PCs to be a 2nd rate option and these casual shooter series though still ported to run faster on PC don't get shown the love or the money by PC gamers.
Are you a Mod, a console Rocker or a casual Punk? To succeed on PC these execs cannot rely on the added GPU and CPU muscle in our PCs, they need to free the code that they release so people can mod games. Many softcos already realise this and are reaping the benefits.
Take Bohemia Interactive's ARMA series, the love for that series by PC fans and exclusively PC fans continues, from the days we first got to play with and edit and mod Operation Flashpoint. BECAUSE we got to mod Operation Flaspoint and even if you did not spend the time developing your own mod , you could look forward to the games community doing it for you . As we did with Battlefield 2 which has to this day one of the largest modding communities. Now DICE has lost its way with Battlefield 3, there are no great PC mods or total conversions that set the PC gaming community alight, all we are going to get is official Origin delivered DLC. How cool would it be if EA let gamers submit there mods to Origin like Bethesda and Steam are doing with Steamworks and the likes of Skyrim?
Freedom to mess with games for PC gamers is an inalienable right and creates a unique and mutual respect between developer and gamer this is what has kept the likes of ARMA II at the top of the Steam 2012 sale , throughout that sale , any execs who wish to hold on to their expensive suits in 2013 would do well to pay attention ...simply releasing new hardware is not going to be enough.
Today's PC gamer has grown tired of ageing consoles of their youth not because the hardware has aged, but because of the lack of respect hardware and software developers have for us with neutered gameplay, sub teen infested multiplayer and being dictated to by developers,publishers and so called platform holders..
Tomorrows games are going to have to cater for a console generation that has grown up to become today's PC gamer with all the freedoms and many ways of playing , purchasing and improving games this PC next gen is used to. Facing off against Windows 8, Apps, Android , iOS, streaming and cloud gaming the next generation of consoles which will again not allow any of the freedoms we love on PC is going to be an epic fail. Developers who were traditionally locked to one platform will also fail. We are rapidly approaching the time when there is no place in living rooms for consoles, in fact we nearing the time when the majority of our time gaming and doing others things is done without switching on and tempting the Red Ring or Yellow flash of death... In the next round of console releases I predict that one of the big boys Nintendo or Sony will leave the console field altogether just as Sega and Atari before them, and Coleco and Magnavox... you know what I'm talkin bout Willis?
They used to talk about the death of PC gaming , but now you have to consider the console as a games delivery service ...it's dead Jim and I find that fascinating....absolutely fascinating ....
class dismissed...
Check out ARMA 2 now on the Steam sale , remember the DLC is also 40% off and all of of the above also applies to the other game that has remained at the top of the Steam summer 2012 sale Skyrim too has 50% off hurry though today is the last day!
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