Epic Games - Continually lambasts PC consumers that made them a success, has shifted focus away from the PC to create mediocre crap that is purchased in droves by Console gamers. They bitched and moaned about PC gamers not buying a product (UT3) which offers less than their pervious Unreal Tournament 2004 game using the piracy fallacy for poor sales. They should be kicked out for the amount of stupid ignorant comments about the platform and PC gamers, from their employees (Cliffy B the douche bag) and their amazingly lost in space CEO. Epic can’t complete with their tired ideas and 1997 gameplay on the PC anymore.
Intel - Pushing their horrible integrated GPU's onto consumers claiming that dedicated GPU's will be a thing of the past directly targeting Nvidia directly.
Microsoft – Effectively slowed down PC gaming by introducing an incredibly costly decision to join the console hardware market. Directx, which progressed leaps and bounds ahead of Open GL before has now just become a marketing tool for them to push when it’s convenient for another hardware console. Wonder why DX10 isn’t anything worthwhile? It might be due to the fact it wouldn’t be in Microsoft’s interest to release a significant update to their API when their own gaming console cannot even take advantage of it. It would shift the focus away from their bread and butter to a platform in which they really don’t suck in that much money from licensing, if any at all. There isn’t competition anymore between OpenGL and DirectX so PC gamers are now dependant on waiting for the next API’s when a new console generation comes along.
Nvidia/ATI – Two competing GPU’s manufactures often finding their way into publisher’s pocketbooks promoting their hardware above the competition. “The way it’s meant to be played”.
The simple fact is that American consumers, when it comes to computers, are absolutely lost in the sauce. They will spend thousands of dollars on things in which they don’t know what they purchased in the first place. Integrated GPU’s which is Intel’s bread and butter for example should be criminal to sell to consumers now days unless the computer is for sale to businesses only. Consumer education is the best thing the PCGA could ever possibly do but that doesn’t work in the favor to most hardware vendors that continue to sell absolute garbage at premium prices and especially not for retail stores such as BestBuy. Everything is stacked against the PCGA to educate consumers especially when it’s filled with hardware vendors that prey upon those morons for a profit.
The only thing the PCGA could do is dispel some of the dumbest individuals spamming internet forums about how PC gaming is dying, how crapy it is, and how nothing sells from 12 year old console fanboys. NPD group are dinosaurs and only now are finally going to looking at digital distribution and subscription based revenue. Didn’t we hear the exact same jazz about the music industry dying because nobody was purchasing CD’s at retail? Yeah look where that ended up after people finally took the effort to look at the issue.
Get rid of the awful integrated GPU’s, motherboards that don’t have PCI-E or APG expansion ports, and call out developers whining like girls about piracy when their products don’t sell well. There are more than enough PC exclusive developers that make a profit with slim to none over bearing DRM all over their products. If a PC developer that was made a success on the PC then cries about their “newest” game not selling well, then shifts focus to a closed platform, other PC developers who are able to compete need to call them out for what they are, talentless hacks who cannot handle a platform that strives on competition.
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