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PC Gaming is alive and well. It's just that they don't spend millions on marketing themselves. Minecraft, GoG, Diablo 3, WoW, LoL all are standing examples that
by ameen 14y ago
PC Gaming is alive and well. It's just that they don't spend millions on marketing themselves. Minecraft, GoG, Diablo 3, WoW, LoL all are standing examples that PC Gaming works.
- georgemcbay 14y agoThe average age of the games you listed is 4 years old. Is that really proof of a market that is "alive and well"?
- chc 14y agoGoing by release dates (which is how we normally gauge console games' ages), League of Legends is about three years old, MineCraft is about a year and a half old (a lot of people forget this because it had both an open alpha and open beta, unlike any console game I know of) and Diablo 3 is not even one year old yet. Their average age is less than two years unless you're counting time in development, by which standard GTA V (due to release late this year) is like three years old.
- georgemcbay 14y agoYou missed one (WoW; 2004).
- chc 14y agoWhoops! Indeed I did. Sorry, I think my brain mentally blended it with the other initialism in the list.
- georgemcbay 14y agoTo be fair, it throws the average way down and also it isn't entirely fair to use the 2004 date since they have been releasing expansions throughout the life of the game, but I still don't think the original list is a sign of a healthy overall market for PC games (though it is proof that the right game hitting the right market can still make a significant amount of money on the PC).