From Strategyinformer.com: "There is a simmering undertone of discontent in the PC games market at the moment. Whether you beleive it to still be alive and kicking, or doomed to die a slow death, one way or another physical PC media at retail seems to be in decline.
Many of you will have noticed the dwindling presence of PC games at your local games stores if they haven't been abandoned altogether already. Publishers and retailers have conflicting opinions on why this is happening and have even resorted to accusing each other of precipitating the decline."
We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.
This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.
On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.
Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...
Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken
Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.
There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods
There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.
On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.
lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.
Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.
Par for Bethesda.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.
Some good points. I don't think I've ever seen a PC game at a gamestop, for instance. Best Buy still has a decent selection, but it's definitely not as good as their console section. Personally, I still vastly prefer the retail version to the digital, unless price is just so much cheaper.
We've evolved past the need for physical media.
The internet and the PC is reshaping everything. Do you want to know why PC mag sales are in such deep decline ? I will tell you it's thanks to the internet, why on earth would someone pay £5 for a magazine that is at least 1 month out of date when you can get pretty much up to the minute news on the gaming industry for free on the net ?
The recent fiasco with Activision and Infinity Ward is a good example of how the Internet dominates the mags. We had nearly minute by minute accounts of what was happening. The best you will get from a magazine is a half page story that would be hopelessly out of date.
The Internet is also changing the way a lot of people shop. Even if we ignore DD services for a moment it is still a fact that nearly every game that comes out is at least 25% cheaper than buying it from an online retailer rather than a retail store. So you can buy your game cheaper and have it delivered to your door on release day or you can go the retail shop route and trudge into town, pay more and then trudge back. Hmm difficult choice there eh.
So no Retail didn't "kill the PC shelf", the PC got there first and PC gamers showed retailers we don't need them. The writing is on the wall for retail game shops though, what has happened with the PC will eventually happen with the console then where will they be ?
Console gamers 99.9999999999% of the time can only get Disc based media
PC gamers if they have a Internet connection 100% can get Digital media
Thing is I would rather digital distribution, hard drives are more reliable than discs, though some will argue that (pro tip: buy from a reliable HDD maker, seagate or western digital), and lol no cloud computing is just a bad idea, enjoy the server going down and not being able to play, or the company folding and not being able to play the game ever again.