Games used to be for geeks and savvy people and they were fun. Then they went mainstream and had to cater to an average kid. Then consoles took over and games had to be dumbed down even more. Now gaming is like the movie industry: full or crappy sequels and targeted at the average Joe with tiny attention span and IQ below 100.
Now and then a gem happens only to be followed by a crappy sequel. Crysis 2 is the recent memorable example. It's the first game ever that I'm not going to finish. I lost interest about 1/3 through the game. It just feels like COD with nanosuit and aliens, plus no Quick Save, little customization. I went back to playing the original Crysis and Warhead.
Crytek had a great thing going with Crysis and Warhead but they decided they don't want to make another game game set in the jungle. Aha... It's more like EA wanted them to create another COD clone because everybody else is doing shooters in urban environment. So let's set the game in... New York City! Screw originality, screw Crysis and Warhead, screw the story and everything else. Let's make some loose, senseless and idiotic story connections to the original games (so it looks like a sequel) and create another forgettable FPS shooter... Oh screw that too, let's make yet another multiplayer game, because that's what sells, and just slap the singleplayer on the top. FU Crytek! Go hang out with Bungie sellouts...
Oh yes, so then we have multiplayer. It was heck of a fun back in the day. Now, since every idiot on the planet has access to fast internet, multiplayer has become a battelfield of morons acting tough and trying to prove themselves in virtual worlds because they can't find any satisfaction in real life. The same anonymity syndrome that makes people act like cretins on internet forums carried over to multiplayer games.
And yes, people will continue to buy this crap because an average person on this planet isn't very smart and this kind of cookie cutter entertainment suits them. As long as corporate greed is satisfied the suits don't care about the quality of their product. Our society is getting dumber every year and this is not going to change. It almost feels like "Idiocracy" was a documentary movie.
PC gaming isn't dead in literal sense, it just followed Hollywood down the road of stupidity for the masses... Chewing gum for the brains.