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mornelithe on 15 April 2015
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Zekkyou said:
mornelithe said:

I wonder if we'll ever get to a point where we can stop pretending that consoles never suffer from piracy.  Yes, there are differences...but piracy is piracy.

My hope is that eventually, PC and Console gamers can actually become one group...of gamers.  And we can actually force policy, through focused effort by all.  It's still a long ways away though, lots of console gamers still hate on PC, and lots of PC gamers still hate on console (I know people who do both, sadly).  

Indeed, and it's something that's always irked me. I can understand someone preferring one over the other (i'm one of those people), but anyone using that preference as a basis to write off the merits of the other is just being silly.

We have no solid idea what the games industry will look like in 10, 20, or 30 years, but right now both 'factions' play an important role in keeping the industry interesting and competitive. That extends to the brands within those two sides too.

Not just that, but as a collective, console+PC gamers would be a force to be reckoned with, for any publisher.  A concerted effort to boycott timed exclusive, or microtransaction etc (Or even just speak out against it as a collective).... or whatever the concern is, if it were addressed by the collective...yeah, it'd be much, much easier to steer the industry in the direction that we desire, if we could function that way.