Which is the problem. Call me when publishers get back on board with non f2p or moba pc games. I want single player campaigns or RTS games the like of Baldurs gate 3, Half-life 3, Diablo 4, Black and White 3, Age of Empires 4, Rise of Nations 2, Homeworld 3, Exclusive Doom 4, a new Stalker game, a new Vampire the masquerade, etc......
There are F2P games and Mobas but that doesn't mean there aren't other games in the market. There are plenty of Single Player games on PC. You want campaigns in RTS? Have you missed Starcraft 2 trilogy? Wargame franchise or upcoming Act of Aggression? You want Diablo 4 after they released its expansion last year and probably working on second expansion? Don't count on it... Blizzard takes their times with games and they don't milk the franchise after the trilogy. That's the main reason why there is no Warcraft 4 despite huge demand. Homeworld's AAA prequel is in development, it's called Homeworld Shipbreakers and it's funded by Gearbox. As for cRPGs like Baldurs Gate, plenty of those are out there now more than in the last ten years. New game from STALKER devs is in development, rumored to be STALKER 2.
PC of the past is dead and is only resurrected by kickstarter, strategy games and indies(thankfully or I wouldn't even bother playing pc), with such gems as Pillars of Eternity, Wasteland 2, EU4, Civ5, starpoint gemeni 2, etc... But where is the publisher support? They only show support in form of console ports. I play those on console where they were made for.
If you think PC is dead then Console gaming died last gen. Console gaming is in much worse state. All of those Console games are mostly dumbed down wannabe PC games. Consoles lost their uniqueness a long time ago. The entire industry is a shit show now. PC is still better.
When fucking Maxis the maker of the Sim City and the Sims can't even be bothered to be supported by publishers, you know there is a problem.
We have better City builder now.
The Moba genre is the newest fad bubble...that will burst with so many making games for that genre, saturating the market. Those style games are based on the rts mechanic I couldn't stand. Warcraft 3 was the worst rts imo.... and now the rts genre is practically dead besides mobas.
Moba is huge yes but you are ignoring other titles as mentioned above. And that's just your opinion. Warcraft 3 was masterpiece.
Back in the 90's and the first half of the 00's Pc gaming was the spotlight for new games, new technology and publisher funding...what happened? I remember countless finished games coming out monthly, now everything is early access. You could go to the store and a whole wall was dedicated to PC games, now its a small 3 foot by 3 foot shelf...
I agree that PC gaming is all about digital stores now but there are still AAA games that get boxed release. Like it or not, that's where the entire entertainment industries are headed, even consoles. It's just happening on PC first.
So yeah congradulations steam, but your parent company valve has abandoned the hard core in favor of f2p multiplayer hat making bullshit.... where the hell is half-life3...
Valve doesn't make games that they use to make, true. But you can't ignore other devs.
/rant.
Seems like you are ignoring everything and just looking at one or two genres that aren't big exclusively on PC and complaining about it.
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