Baltothewolf
***REMOVED TOS***, why pay for a game and risk it being crap? Have had it happen to me one to many times.

I don't see your hate at BF4? It's an excellent game and I have close to 400 hours in it. It was a rough launch, but they seem to have fixed most of the issues.

ACU was just a disaster in general. Sad thing.

I haven't heard anything bad about the new batman game.

Chrome-M-Dragon
Wow whats up with the forums lately, balto with a quad post, then OP doubles up too....

knightsilver
PC Gamer, is just a dumb label as educated dmmies label, the video game industry is what screwed up....

Nereus

HAZMAN_THE_GREAT
But what I really want to show are these fun facts:
American workers simply do not make enough money to support a middle class family life style anymore.  These income numbers come directly from the Social Security Administration…
-39 percent of American workers make less than $20,000 a year.
-52 percent of American workers make less than $30,000 a year.
-63 percent of American workers make less than $40,000 a year.
-72 percent of American workers make less than $50,000 a year.
 
It also may be hard to believe, but right now only 44 percent  of all U.S. adults are employed for 30 or more hours each week. So again PC gaming is not dying its just people dont have enough to spend on gaming or entertainment in general.

 
Going off topic but gotta respond to this.
 
Pretty hard to believe those salaries.. 72% below $50k?? Wow, that's shocking. You couldn't survive in NYC on that, unless you were single and lived crammed into a tiny 500sqft studio with several others living in each others' laps basically, and a staple diet of ramen. And still you'd just be surviving, if that.. forget about a future.
 
Definitely believe that only 44% work <30 hours a week, surprised it's not higher yet, but it definitely will be - attribute that to Obamacare, and that's only going to get worse as the Obamacare employer mandate fully kicks in and employers start feeling the pain. Here's what the employer mandate is, very briefly:
 
Obamacare Employer Mandate: originally set to begin in 2014, was delayed until 2015 / 2016. ObamaCare’s employer mandate is a requirement that
(a) businesses that employ more than 100 full-time workers will be required to offer the health care coverage mandated by the government for 70 percent of its workers or face a penalty of $2,000 per employee. In 2016, these businesses must cover 95 percent of its employees, AND their dependents up to age 26. Yes, 26.
(b) small businesses that employ 50 to 99 full-time workers get one more year before they must meet the same health insurance coverage requirements of the federal government or be forced to pay the penalty.
(c) businesses that employ less than 50 workers are exempt from the requirements of the "Affordable Care Act" (lmao.. best example of an oxymoron ever).
 
Obvious way to circumvent that burden to employers is to cut staff hours to under 30 hours per week, which is exactly what is happening already with that 44% figure. Next year smaller businesses (50-99 employees) who run on an even tighter profit margin will face the same decision, and I bet 99% of them will either cut employee hours, fire staff so they are under 50 employees and exempt, or close their doors altogether. I would not be at all surprised to see that "employed <30 hours a week" number rise to 60% of all workers within 2 years... and see many small businesses collapsing, and watch unemployment skyrocket.. and because Obama will have finished his term, the new government will take the blame for it.
 
Far worse than that, this takes money out of workers pockets by cutting their hours, which will hurt the economy, and the workers with cut hours will have the additional burden of having to still pay insurance themselves. Either way it's a lose-lose situation. Insurance companies are already estimating premium increases of as much as 25-30% in 2016. Doctors are being paid less and many quality doctors are planning on leaving the US or retiring, because the lowered income yet ever-increasing malpractice insurance is making it not viable to work here. The remaining doctors are trying to turn unqualified nurses and in some case reception staff into medical practitioners to get more money in the door, malpractice suits will increase as a result, their insurance premiums will increase and so the death spiral will continue. The poor will get poorer definitely. This is a nightmare unfolding, and it is stunning the supreme court just voted yesterday 6-3 to uphold Obamacare (although considering who appoints these guys, no great surprise there). It is unbelievably short-sighted of the government to think this will work.
 
Bottom line - things are going to get a whole lot worse for the majority of Americans in the coming years.. and I'm not even touching on Social Security being effectively bankrupt, or the possible illegal alien free-for-all amnesty. USA will end up like Russia where there's a very very small super-rich elite group, and then everyone else just struggling to survive from one day to the next, with crime rampant, and organized crime running everything.
 
Please note I am trying to stay away from the political arguments since that is against ToS, but it *is* known as Obamacare, and the employer mandate was delayed intentionally, these are facts not opinions.
 
/rant.
 
 Is PC gaming a dying breed? That will be the least of our concerns the way things are going.
 
 
 

j2345912
I just want to hear others take on the matter. With so many recent disastrous game releases such as Batman Arkham Knight, Battlefield 4, Assassins Creed Unity, ect ect, It makes a PC gamer wonder what is going on with the industry. At this point, since the release of Battlefield 4, I told myself, never will I again pre-order another game, which is sad, as I like to support these game companies, and show how excited I am about there newest games by pre-ordering!

Vlada011
Image quality and game details on PC should look much better than console if you compare hardware for PC with PS4 example...
But difference is not so big at all... That's disaster and bad optimization of games to use much stronger hardware than really need.
It's funny if you compare X99 platform with multi GPU configuration and capability of such hardware with PS4 or other console...
Developers pull max from hardware build in console and our games are optimized to use much stronger hardware than need or fps will drop, with all problems as low GPU usage, fps drops, bottleneck, etc...

Baltothewolf
***REMOVED TOS***, why pay for a game and risk it being crap? Have had it happen to me one to many times.

I don't see your hate at BF4? It's an excellent game and I have close to 400 hours in it. It was a rough launch, but they seem to have fixed most of the issues.

ACU was just a disaster in general. Sad thing.

I haven't heard anything bad about the new batman game.