There are other users besides me

I don't know about Chazore, zero129 for example knows a lot about emulation, maybe he knows about DOSbox too. Then there are guys that know about the PC echosystem, like Pemalite, Holodust, etc. that maybe can also help you.

I could ask Quake I guess, I'm not sure how often he uses DOSbox though as I think he still has a DOS-based PC.

Those stats are useless. I want concurrent Steam users who are actually in a game.

Been tempted.
The problem with newer PC games is that CD keys are often tied with services like Steam, uDontPlay, Origin and so on... So it can make buying second hand a gamble sometimes. - Plus many publishers don't even bother with a Physical release at all.
Instead... The only Physical PC games I buy are Blizzards titles, the big boxes do look great though.

I'll just stick to collecting digitally on PC and Physical on console.

If you find DosBox to difficult... And it can be for some, there is another alternative... Virtual Machines, just get a copy of Win98 SE and bobs your uncle.

Or you could build a retro machine... The *perfect* Retro PC would probably be something with a Voodoo 3 paired up with a Radeon 8500/Geforce 4 Ti under Windows 98 SE... You can pretty much play any PC game right up to about 2007ish that way... And still get the juicy Glide games in all their Mc'Glory.

Yeah, it'd probably be mainly for retro games, as I'll go with consoles for modern games. I do find DOSbox difficult, but it's probably because I'm not accustomed to DOS itself, and not having a GUI.

It's Wednesday and these are the news:

SALES & "SALES"/DEALS

Fortnite has surpassed 7 million players
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/fortnite-has-surpassed-7-million-players/
Epic Games has announced that over 7 million gamers have played Fortnite on all platforms. While the team did not clarify which percentage of them is exclusively playing the free-to-play mode, Battle Royale, we do know that more than one million gamers have played it on its first day.

Stardock strategy games headline the latest Humble Bundle
http://www.pcgamer.com/stardock-strategy-games-headline-the-latest-humble-bundle/
For those of you who don't yet have enough Humble Bundles in your lives, the new one from Stardock is really quite good. For a minimum of $1, you'll get Sorcerer King: Rivals, Fallen Enchantress, The Political Machine 2016, and The Corporate Machine. That's a really good deal for a dollar. But it's only the beginning.

Darkest Dungeon is cheap this week, new class mods make it a must buy
http://www.pcgamer.com/darkest-dungeon-is-cheap-this-week-new-class-mods-make-it-worth-getting/
Red Hook Studios' Darkest Dungeon is one of the hardest yet most enjoyable games I've ever played—an experience that's been bolstered over time by its range of neat player-made mods. The base game is subject to a 60 percent discount on Steam till Friday, and there are a number of cool new class mods which make it worth checking out.

>>The offer, available here, is one of the two Midweek Madness deals on Steam. The other one is Dying Light, that's 50% off (60% for the Enhanced version).

SOFTWARE

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MODS/EMULATORS

TEKKEN 6 is fully playable on the Playstation 3 emulator, RPCS3
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/tekken-6-is-fully-playable-on-the-playstation-3-emulator-rpcs3/
The team behind the best emulator for Playstation 3, RPCS3, has announced that TEKKEN 6 is now fully playable on RPCS3, running at 60fps. The latest version of RPCS3 runs the game with perfect graphics, including now fixed shadows, working sound and at 60fps.

>>But that's not the only news worthy article about RPCS3, because...

Here are Demon’s Souls, Red Dead Redemption, Persona 5, Dante’s Inferno and more being rendered at higher resolutions
http://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/here-are-demons-souls-red-dead-redemption-persona-5-dantes-inferno-and-more-being-rendered-in-higher-resolutions/
The development team of RPCS3 has announced that a new high resolution rendering mode will be added to this PS3 emulator in the coming weeks. In order to showcase the visuals improvements, the team shared a screenshot from Demon’s Souls running in native 4K with 16xAF.

GAMING NEWS

New screenshots released for Sonic Forces, showing off custom Hero Character & Chemical Plant
http://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/new-screenshots-released-for-sonic-forces-showing-off-custom-hero-character-chemical-plant/
SEGA released today brand new screenshots from Sonic Team’s upcoming game, Sonic Forces. The screenshots showcase the customizable Hero Character utilizing the newly revealed Drill Wispon to destroy enemies and speed through the Chemical Plant.

New screenshots released for Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus & DOOM VFR
http://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-news/new-screenshots-released-for-wolfenstein-ii-the-new-colossus-doom-vfr/
Bethesda has released some new screenshots for the VR version of DOOM, DOOM VFR, and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. Both DOOM VFR and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus are powered by the id Tech 6 Engine, and both are planned for a 2017 release.

Skyrim Special Edition – Survival Mode is now available to everyone & free for a limited time
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/skyrim-special-edition-survival-mode-is-now-available-to-everyone-free-for-a-limited-time/
After a short beta period, Bethesda has released the Survival mode for Skyrim’s Special Edition to everyone. According to its description, Skyrim’s survival mode adds new gameplay features and challenges to transform Skyrim into a land of unrelenting cold and harsh wilderness.

Crazy Justice is a new Unreal Engine 4-powered third-person shooter with destructible environments
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/crazy-justice-is-a-new-unreal-engine-4-powered-third-person-shooter-with-destructible-environments/
Black Riddles Studio has announced that it is working on a new third-person shooter game in cel-shaded style with steampunk elements. The game will be powered by Unreal Engine 4, will feature destructible environments using NVIDIA’s PhysX technology, and will support cross-play between the Xbox One and the PC versions.

Obsidian admits that Fallout: New Vegas was limited by consoles
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/obsidian-admits-that-fallout-new-vegas-was-limited-by-consoles/
It’s no secret that multi-platform games are limited by the hardware of consoles; a limitation that’s not present on the PC as developers can push things as much as they want. The Crysis series is a perfect example of how a game can be limited by consoles and it appears that Fallout: New Vegas was also a victim of such a thing.

Second part of the news:

Gone Home prevented Tacoma from being judged on its own, says creator Steve Gaynor
http://www.pcgamer.com/gone-home-prevented-tacoma-from-being-judged-on-its-own-says-creator-steve-gaynor/
Fullbright's Steve Gaynor has now described Tacoma's reception as "a very different experience" from Gone Home's 2013 launch—one which has provided he and his team with "a much more realistic version of what launching a game is really like." Gaynor tells me that the videogame landscape has since shifted considerably, and that Gone Home's runaway success met the demands of a then shifting industry: away from violent videogames into more experimental territory.

The Overwatch 'Halloween Terror' event returns next week
http://www.pcgamer.com/the-overwatch-halloween-terror-event-returns-next-week/
October is now upon us, and that means that Halloween will soon be here—and that means that the Overwatch Halloween Terror event is just about ready to begin: Blizzard announced today that this year's festivities will begin on October 10, and run until November 2.

Dota 2 'Midas Mode' tournament is coming in November
http://www.pcgamer.com/dota-2-midas-mode-tournament-is-coming-in-november/
The Dota 2 Midas Mode Tournament is as clever as it is simple. Teams are given equal amounts of virtual money called "Moonbucks"—named after Moonduck, the outfit that came up with the idea—which must be used to finance every action they take over the course of the tournament. Judicious money management will enable teams to make the right moves at the right times, but blowing it on bad calls will leave them struggling to compete with a no-budget lineup of Dota chumps.

PUBG studio apologizes for server problems, says improvements are on the way
http://www.pcgamer.com/pubg-studio-apologizes-for-server-problems-says-improvements-are-on-the-way/
Playerunknown's Battlegrounds has suffered some serious server issues of late that have left players struggling to connect, or to get to the menu screen when they could. We thought for awhile that the problems had been cleared up, but it quickly came to light that our analysis was a little over-optimistic. For now the issues persist, but the PUBG development team says it's doing its best to fix things up.

Star Control: Origins is delayed, but a public beta is coming
http://www.pcgamer.com/star-control-origins-is-delayed-but-a-public-beta-is-coming/
Stardock has announced that Star Control: Origins, its upcoming reboot of the classic sci-fi strategy series, will soon be ready to enter a "public beta program." That means that the Founder's Program that launched last year will be brought to an end in a couple of weeks.

Aftercharge, the 3v3 asymmetrical FPS, will hold an 'open alpha' next weekend
http://www.pcgamer.com/aftercharge-the-3v3-asynchronous-fps-will-hold-an-open-alpha-next-weekend/
Aftercharge is a multiplayer FPS in which a team of three invisible robots does its best to wreck stuff, while a team of three invincible guards tries to stop them. Next weekend, you'll be able to judge for yourself how it's coming along, as developer Chainsawesome Games is holding a three-day "open alpha," which will be the game's first public playtest.

Warframe's Plains of Eidolon expansion could launch sooner than expected
http://www.pcgamer.com/warframes-plains-of-eidolon-expansion-could-launch-sooner-than-expected/
Warframe's much anticipated Plains of Eidolon update, which adds a huge new MMO-esque open world to the otherwise corridor-y shooter, may launch within the next 10 days, according to Digital Extremes. Writing in a new update, the studio specifies that it's a "goal" rather than a "guarantee", but it's still something.

Silly Knight is one of 6 brand new DOS games you can play today
http://www.pcgamer.com/silly-knight-is-one-of-6-brand-new-dos-games-you-can-play-today/
This month Czech retro gaming site High-Voltage.cz ran a competition for DOS games, specifically MS-DOS 6.22 games in text mode that could be run on a 486DX / 50MHz with 8MB of RAM. Fortunately you can also play them on a more modern machine thanks to DOSBox.
The six entries can be downloaded from the link in the blue box on this page. They include a sci-fi shooter called Space Assault and a dungeon crawler called Dungeons of Noudar, but the overall winner was action platformer Silly Knight.

>>To VGPolyglot: I swear it's a coincidence, not something I've made on purpose.

The creators of Push Me Pull You are working on a new game where you are a pesky goose
http://www.pcgamer.com/the-creators-of-push-me-pull-you-are-working-on-a-new-game-where-you-are-a-pesky-goose/
We last heard from indie studio House House when they released Push Me Pull You, a local multiplayer game where each player controlled one head of a wriggling, two-headed worm person. Their next project, currently called "Untitled Goose Game", is looking strange in its own way.

Abandon Ship showcases picture frame maps and brutal elemental environments
http://www.pcgamer.com/abandon-ship-showcases-picture-frame-maps-and-elemental-environments/
Abandon Ship held its first public demonstration at this year's PC Gamer Weekender, and has since teased its deadly weather systems and doomsday cults. Now, developer Fireblade Software has shown off how we'll explore its sprawling water world and the perils that lie within.

I feel like my brain cells are dying, just replying to someone so backwards and ignorant.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8578674

That was painful to read. 

Oh btw, Return to Lordran 2017 is today ! So I might go back for more Dark Souls, however I'm playing The Surge now and I'm having such a blast ^^ 

I just find it ignorant of him to spread fud and act like it's the gamers fault and not the devs. The guy likes to think that all devs are pure and completely innocent of not fucking things up.

People are human, the devs are human, humans are very much capable of marginal error at times.

He likes to think that he knows a lot about PC gaming, as well as the hw and how games are made, but he really doesn't and it shows.