To the people that say pc games aren't slowing down, oh my god, I just have to laugh. That is the most pathetic statement I've heard in awhile. PC games are slowing in large amounts. Don't give me that crap about being around. I was playing games before games had graphics. Everything goes through cycles. Right now the cycle is favoring consoles and comps are slowing down. Give it a few years and that will change. Up untill Sup. Commander and Jade Empire SE came out, there just hasn't been much. I won't include online games cause they suck as much as consoles. In fact it had been so long since I even saw a game worth buying, I was starting to go through withdrawls. Even the stores will admit that pc games are coming in at a much slower rate. It sucks but it will pass. Consoles are becoming cheap computers, so it wont be too long before the two simply merge. They're already using hard drives, modems, intragrated sound and video made by our own computer suppliers (nvidia, ati creative,etc...). Sounds like a cheap computer to me. So suck it up. We'll be back ontop of the food chain before too long. wallydog63

Don't agree with that statement at all about games slowing down, geez there is alot of games that come out on a regular basis.  Yes alot of them are worth the cost, play the demo's they might just surprise you.  I could also hazard a statement and say that some of us have been there from the start too, not like that's anything special.  lol.

Very sad state of affairs.

World of warcraft as a game sucks, as a community its second to none.
Why are people obsessed with buying games online? When i buy a game i want a hard copy not a data transfer copy.
The U.S market is now swaying towards the consoles, so alot of PC devs in the US are moving to consoles although in europe PC's are still a strong force.
Also in america there is a general obsession with multiplayer games. Its like a Korean or Chinese mentality that if there is no multiplayer then we aren't buying it. Its a console mentality also as many 360 owners are not happy that Oblivion is a single player game and Virtual fighter 5.
With me coming from Europe though consoles suck big time. I have been playing Supreme commander for the last few weeks. I haven't touched gears of war for months since its first month of purchase. I have 13, 360 games and i keep turning to my pc and so far supreme commander kicks consoles good and proper.

I suppose the moral is PC gamers need to start buying more. Is it the quality of software?? Nope, far from it although PC games aren't comming out as thick an fast as they uaed to be the ones released last year were quality games albeit with bugs galore. Piracy and hardware costs are killing the PC industry and the only ones to change it are Pcgamers.

Although WoW have done alot fo PC games the linear structure is a kick in the ribs for creativity and AI. And those that think Starcraft is a better game that TA are on drugs. And those that think diablo 1+2 is better than Baldurs gate are on drugs too. 
ardylicious

I agree wholeheartedly.

They should package it with windows vista. I will buy it when it goes in the 20 buck basket. Sully28

I heard that.  Just give it six months to a year, it didn't take long for Halo to hit the "Darn we charged to much for it, now we overstocked so here it is for 20 dollars, please buy it"  :)   Considering I wasn't not really impressed with Halo when I bought it.  But then again I will be honest, it crashed like everyother day and I am not impressed with most microsoft products, but I do play them.  I will also say this about system requirements, if you will notice that every year the computer industry comes up with new tech. so the gaming industry makes the games according to the new advances.  Now its Vista, same argument happened with XP, 98, 95, etc.