Kinda funny how they keep saying that piracy is affecting pc game sales.  In the last year consoles grossed 15 billion with the inclusion of sales of the consoles.  That's 5 billion per system if divided equally.  Pc games grossed 4 billion and that did not include the sales of pc's.  This means that there is a possibility that pc games sales are actually higher when the console hardware sales gets excluded from the equation. 

They are just flapping their gums to try to influence people to switch to console so that all the mods and such will have to be paid for.  Well I'm not buying into the bullshit.  PC gaming will live forever!!!!!!

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Epic? What games did they make? Unreals? Whatever.

Personally i don't play microtranscation games. I do buy some DLC (on 360) but otherwise i'm not going to pay for small stuff on PC. Mods usually do same as microtransaction DLC and better. I don't see Facebook as the future of PC gaming either... though for some reason, everyone insist on having it (and Twitter) integrated every where. (For example, SC2 will have Facebook integration.. but no chat channels, LAN, and bunch of other stuff. Blizzard's priorities FTL). FB games are just an evolution to flash games, on larger scale, more features, more community stuff. And flash games sure as hell never became THE PC gaming (though aren't they the most played games? By the numbers, easy to find and play, anywhere).

So. Whom indies has piratism killed? It seems that there are a lot of indie games nowadays. And has piratism really changed the business model? DRM's are more invasive nowadays true... but otherwise? Impulse and Steam and other direct download systems are only a natural evolution to selling video games, not a response to piratism. At least that's how i see things. (Not an expert on this stuff of course, i don't think even a layman applies here)

And consoles... Consoles are more popular than PCs as gaming platforms, true? Added togheter that is. Or at least becoming? Wonder why...                                                                                                                                            I wonder also how much does the requirement for constant hardware upgrades affect PC game sales. Can't buy newest games, nor even a year (or two) old games unless i play them on minimun settings and even then they don't work well (exaggeration). Most people are not upgrading their hardware every 6 months, or even every year. Probably even less often. The newest console generation began in 2005 and is probably being replaced around 2015-2016. 10 years on same system. And the games look better and better. Optimization of game engines and such beats hardware upgrades IMO.

And again going on borderline off-topic. What can you do when a thought leads to other? Anyway, money's on console due PC piratism? I doubt that. I think consoles simply offer better accessiblity, better games (generally, at least when i glance on my game racks/shelves) and... uhhm. Biased views here, can't find other reasons

Yeah, yeah, I know, borderline off-topic, probably irrelevant stuff, things that have nothing to do with the thread (which is not that well defined in any case). Blame environment, eduacation and upbringing for not concentrating on the subject. Don't expect me to change though.

PS I have to ask for clarifcation: piratism means copyright infringement and piracy is robbery on sea?

Nothing to see here.  Epic's been blaming piracy on their mediocre games since the PC port of Gears of War flopped.  It seems they feel the need to keep saying that every 6 months or so in order to feel better about their failures.

Tip: The money is on the consoles because console standard for FPS' are much lower.  Gears of War and UT3 failed on the PC because they were subpar by PC standards.  Apparently brown and bloom is game of the year material on the 360.

Mike Capps is like Bobby Kotick (Activision CEO), the reason why gaming industry sucks.

Lol...funny...this is what I was thinking about as well.

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Either way, I don't want to make a new topic for the following article, so I post about this here. [Sorta on-topic]

How to fix what's wrong with PC gaming

The platform is powerful but flawed - here are 12 things that require a reboot

• Make PC hardware standards compulsory
• Let’s bring the PC back to E3
• Make better PCs
• Reclaim the high tech advantage
• Make games complicated
• Learn from the pirates
• Open up our friends lists
• Kill indie elitism
• Open up Steam to everyone
• Get serious about retro
• Put a 3D chip in every notebook
• Reinvent our controllers

I like where things are going. The PC is about gameplay and story > all. Consoles are about eye candy. If you have an idea and want to make a game, you go to PC, ignore piracy and distribute online - way more suited to indie devs. If you're a corporate behemoth afraid of piracy you go to the console and churn out a shit game.

I'll never go to consoles for a few reasons:

- I'm a try before you buy type. I'll pirate something first and iff I like it I'll buy it if it's reasonably priced. If it's badly priced I'll still buy it when it eventually drops. I do this for quite a few games. Since the days of Black and White 2 and similar over-hyped games I luckily held off buying, I barely ever preorder. Only Elemental and Starcraft 2 I have enough faith in that I've already paid. 
- Strategies > all. Mouse + keyboard > all for strategy.
- I like my FPS with a mouse + keyboard too.
- It's cheaper. Games are cheaper, there's loads of old and free games.
- Mods
- Desk + comfy chair > sofa
- Higher resolutions 
- Am a bit of a hobbyist with PC hardware 

http://www.softsailor.com/news/20406-red-dead-redemption-pc-version-confirmed.html

And nothing of value was lost.

After watching the Free Roam trailer a couple hours ago, I'd be thrilled if this were to happen. However, it wouldn't be a gaming magazine if they didn't foul up somewhere important each issue. So this could be misinformed stuff going to print, which happens a frightening amount.

UT3 on PC DID bring extensive modding options that has brought out a ton of awesome mods. And a number of those mods are now able to go indie with Epic's release of the UDK.

So UT3 was good for SOMETHING at least.

Too true. Zynga doesn't make games, they make simple interactive mathematical functions that they then add some shiney bits to and market as a game.

As long as people have powerful home PC's, people will play games on them. Even if they have to start making them them-selves. PC gaming will go on forever, it's that simple. Also something everyone forgets, even console games, ALL console games, are Made With a PC. Companies and Developers don't sit down in front of a X-Box and make a X-Box game. They use a PC and programs on that PC to make the X-Box game. In theory, every game that's ever been made for a console has ran on a computer other then the platform it was designed for at one point or another in it's creation. From a cost factor, why do all the extra work to make that game into something that no longer runs on a PC but works on a console? Why not release it on the PC and THEN make a console version if it sells well? Well...a good gaming PC can cost as much as 1 or 2 thousand dollars. A good gaming console? 3 or 4 hundred dollars.

I started gaming when I was 8 years old on the original Nintendo. I couldn't afford a PC of my own until I was 18 years old. The day I bought my PC I went from being a primary console gamer to being a primary PC gamer, with console gaming being something I only do for specific titles (Metroid/Zelda/God of War/Halo/Mario). For me, there is a distinct quality level between console and PC gaming. Some console gamers will never understand the difference because they may never be able to afford the hardware to play the quality games. I think WoW has changed that because tons of kids that would normally be playing Nintendo or Playstation now wanted a PC so they could play with their friends On-line. Now more then ever, both kids and adults game on PC and consoles. In the end though the money is in the adults hands, but often the kids decide what it gets spent on. Most kids these days don't ask for a $1500 computer. They ask for a $400 PS3, or a $300 X-Box360, or a $200 Wii. Kids, not adults, despite the ever growing Adult Gaming Population, control the "purchasing power" in many families the world over. Parents make the money, and the kids spend it by saying "Mommy, I want that!! Daddy, I want that!!". Games are made to target kids for the most part. Go to any video game store and count up the games with cartoons and comic book characters and children's fantasy characters that you see. Then count the number of "Mature" titles like God of War 3, Grand Theft Auto, etc etc. Sure there are plenty of mature games...now. But for the most part there are way more Kid games and more Kid games are made then mature games. Consoles are aimed at kids too. PC's don't advertise during the Saturday Morning Cartoons. Wii, Playstation, X-Box, they all have adds for various games that are on every time, day or night, that they play kids programming.

LoL...Me too.

No....No we don't. Ever!!!

You are too defensive. There are still CIV V and Elemental on the horizon. Try those on a console

And there are games like Kings Bounty, King Arthur, Distant Worlds, Majesty 2. Quality may vary a bit here, but these games are not within the reach of a console methinks