pokoko said:
You ... do know that you can decide which games you want to play on PC, right? What you're saying makes no sense at all. |
Yeah? How many games that are PC exclusive are not free to play or monthly sub. And even if there are a decent amount, an overwhelming amount of them are microtransaction and monthly sub. Those require way more time for investment, meaning they exploit the human mind by having addictive game design. There's a major lack of free-to-play on console and there's one monthly sub for all games. The game design philosphy is different because the business model is different. There are games that overlap between PC vs console but judging by the massive software sales difference when you add ps4+xb1 software sales, the amount of those gamers on PC is fairly small in comparison with the rest of that user base. That leads me to the conclusion that most PC gamers are either playing free to play, Micro-Transaction, real-time strategy, MMORPG, RPG, MOBA, monthly sub or some random indie game, right? The exact kind of games that require a lot of investment in time and money to be truly enjoyable? And going off of empirical evidence, the people in real life I do know that are on PC, go hard in the paint when they play and spend what I think is a psychologically unhealthy amount of time sitting in front of that screen. It's just a personal opinion though and that's the reasoning I have behind it. My little brother is a PC gamer lol. So yeah.
| Dr.Henry_Killinger said: I hear you, but I feel like PC Gaming and Console Gaming with regard to software is basically ubiquitous at this point. True there are games that overlap, but like I said above if you compare the amount of sales between the software platforms on like games, quite more often than not the sales largely favor the console side which tells me that PC gamers most spend their time elsewhere. You'll be hardpressed to find exceptions. Even the Witcher 3 had triple the sales on console than PC and it used to be a PC game. The thing about Monthly Subs is that it doesn't matter how much you play, it matters how much you subscribe so they want to keep you subscribing, often giving sub rewards and filling the game with content and expansions so you don't unsub. But many of these sub rewards are only available at certain times, right? That's because they want you to keep checking back in, logging on daily, weekly, monthly or whatever to help create an addictive habit. So many monthly sub games are grindfests. FTP is more like what you describe because they need every oppurtunity to get you to buy something. An added benefit of the monthly sub model is that, at least coming from FTP, they make most of the cashshop stuff free/easily accessible to add to that value proposition. True. As for online multiplayer, I'd argue that they want that to be as addictive as possible, because even though the server has operating costs, the more activity they have online, the more guaranteed purchases they will have. For instance, if 2 buddies want to play Online COD, they each have to get the game, they can't just share it. But most of those CoD gamers are on consoles. Most of the games that fit that example have a much bigger userbase on the console side. I'm not saying everyone who plays PC spends a lot of time or too much time or are unhealthy lol. But it's just an unappealing prospect to me because it just appears to be a time eater. |
