PC Gaming may or may not be dying.
I do remember (I know I'm only 17, anyways) a time when games used to take more than 2 days of playing to beat and they didn't emphasize much on graphics. This sometimes does happen in new-a-day games, but people look at screenshots and then think the game "looks" crappy. Take for example Hearts of Iron 2 Doomsday. It's like Risk/Axis & Allies on every single drug out there. It is crazy fun and is one of my most played games currently with approximately 140 hours. Most games now-a-days are too short because as mentioned before, they only focus on graphics. If the game would have crazy good graphics and crazy long gameplay... the game would be too large (10-16gb?). Then people would complain again. I think this is because too many children play video games now. Before video games were aimed at late teens and up and that's the way it should be. Kids should be allowed to play video games, but the games shouldn't be tailored for them because there are too many of those now (Cough, Wii, Gamecube).
I just hope the industry smartens up and looks back at their roots.
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