It's not quite that simple. Yes, a title being exclusive 'hurts' those that don't own the system it's exclusive too, but such things are also an unavoidable bi-product of competition. Personally, i think we benefit more from that competition than we are hurt by exclusivity.

Past a certain point i do think it's a bit silly when people celebrate exclusivity, but likewise i don't think people should condemn the practice without considering why it exists. It's one of those 'you can't have your cake and eat it' situations.

I wasn't saying you should like them, in-fact i agree that in and of themselves they usually do little to benefit the consumer. I was just pointing out that they're an unfortunate bi-product of something important.

This is a fact of the industry. It's still a console driven business, so the console manufacturers still go out and spend on different types of exclusivity. 

The only way for exclusivity to go away is for there to no longer be any competition.

All I can say is: WTH happened to the PC gaming community?!

I mean, I've been a PC gamer my whole life. I've been gaming on PC since before I could read. I built my first PC when I was 10.

I love building a cool machine. I love overclocking and tuning to get more performance out of my system. I love optimizing my PC's cooling to get it cooler and quieter. I even love fiddling around with graphics options to get the best out of my hardware. But most importantly: I love gaming.

However, despite my love for PC gaming I feel ashamed of the community nowadays. Most of the time I don't even want to out myself as a PC gamer anymore because it would mean associating with a bunch of elitist pricks. Many PC gamers seem to spend most of their time ridiculing consoles and belittling console gamers for daring to enjoy gaming on something else than a crazy-overpowered-$3000-monster-machine of a PC. Why don't you spend your time gaming on your "crazy-overpowered-$3000-monster-machine of a PC" instead of pestering the rest of the gaming community with your nonsense?! Everybody would be better off.

Sorry for the little rant but it's been bothering me for a while and after reading some of the typical pcmasterrace-posts I had to get it off my chest.

Oh... and a bit more on topic: It's a business - whoever pays, makes the rules. It can suck sometimes, but we'll just have to deal with it.

This is exactly my situation. I never minded PC fans and actually thought console fanboys were worse up until a few years ago where PC fanboys started becoming the worst. They pretty much became loud mouthed bullies out of no where and didn't stop. If someone doesn't see this they must not spend any time on other forums or videos on youtube where they are like rats infesting everything and bullying everything/everyone.

This is the same question for other games exclusive to other systems, why not go multiplatform?.

How is PC an acceptable choice though?, the way you just described it made it sound utterly pointles where only a super small handful of people would see it being viable.

I can't believe this site anymore, I just can't. no matter what you say or do you cannot ever win if you game on a PC, that's the gist, you're either a scummy prickish elitist cunt who constantly plays the victim and is always wrong, that's the message this site gives me and likely will forever more.

I've never been so disgusted despite the fact that this site is always perpetuating wars between other systems and other people.

I love how this got turned into an US vs them simply because people wanted and willed it to be, that's how it;s always going to go on this site.

Also there has been a lot more talk this gen of replacing internal hard drives, something which isn't a console like thing to do, some even try tinkering more with the systems and even try modifying them to boot.

I'm baffled about the sillyness