Your posts still show ignorance. PC gaming is nowhere near dieing nor declining. It's healthily growing each year, particularly digital distribution and online revenue in general. 

The only thing that we have proof of decline is the US' PC boxed retail market, and even then it's negligible when we consider the boom of online revenue. Besides, North-America has the smallest PC market out of the 3 big regions, both Europe and Asia's PC market are easily several times bigger than the North-American's.

There have been reports that PC market has been increasing even more in Europe and Asia, both retail and online sales. Heck, even in the UK (a mostly console-focused "nation") the PC was THE top selling games platform of 2007, with 23% of retail market (and that's not even counting the online revenue), that was the first time in many, many years that PC was the top selling platform in the UK.

Pretty much the only place it's decreasing is the North-american boxed retail market. The North American PC online market though, is booming and I bet it's far bigger than the retail market.

Piracy is a big problem no doubt, but System Requirements??!  If anything, today is the best time in PC gaming for not only System Requirements but also Hardware Costs. It's amazing when my 5 year old PC can still play Mass Effect, SPORE, Starcraft 2, and almost every single PC game out there. Hell, you can even play an awesome game like Audiosurf on a near 10 year old PC. It helps that this gen the consoles got outdated faster than the previous generations, when comparing to PC's.

As far as I see it, PC has far more exclusives than Wii+360+PS3 combined. No big games? Then how about this year PC having far more AAA exclusives than any console? 

It's true that PC has been losing several of the bigger exclusives, but that also applies to all other consoles, if not more. Pretty much today 360/PS3 only have exclusives because of first-party support, with the ocasional third-party game. And just as alot of PC franchises are being released multiplatform, also alot of consoles franchises are being released on PC.

What's the big deal ?
You guys manage to post on this forum every day ( every hour for some) but you won't be able to connect to the net once every 10 days to authenticate the game ?

Heck, these days most games are considered failure without multiplayer and suddenly people are making the argument against games that require a net connection every 10 days ?

I just don't get it.........

Ignorance isn't an insult. It's a descriptive term for lack of knowledge on a subject. I'm ignorant of a lot of things, but the PC market isn't one of them. I know very well what you meant by your original post, and you were simply wrong and tried to back out of it. You're wrong that it's in a decline too.

You are welcome to your opinion of PC gaming, but health of a market depends on facts, and you lack them. Saying "I have a feeling" is meaningless in a discussion of facts. The people who do complain about PC gaming either have nothing to do with developing PC games (like Cliffy B), or haven't made a good one in a while (Hey there id).

The PC gaming market is healthy and expanding in ways that the console market will NEVER be able to match. Consoles can never go >50% digital distribution like PCs are. PC gaming has made its own market, and I'm sorry you can't see that, but I don't recommend you continue a discussion on a subject you are uneducated on and ignorant of.

Why are people complaining about this? Who doesn't have a broadband internet connection nowadays..

Congratulations, you have just played the "over-simplification" card.

I don't always have an internet connection, and I don't always play my games regularly. If I want to play the game when my internet goes down, and I haven't played it within 10 days then I can't play it at all. Denying me access to a game I have bought is unacceptable in my book. There is no excuse for such draconian measures. I should not have to connect to the internet to play a single player game.

Want to explain how that's over-simplified?  I use steam.  A few times a week Steam updates when I start it up.  30 seconds of a little connection and then I play my game.  How is this any different?  Once every 10 days you get a little pop-up that verifies your game before you play.  

@Gnizmo that's not how it works.  You don't have to renew it every 10 days, just every 10 days you want to play.  For example, you could not play Mass Effect for a month, and when you connect it will do the same verification it would do if you hadn't played it in 10 days.  It just means that every 10 days and longer since your last activation, when you go to start up the game it will require verification.  Most likely a process that takes less than 30 seconds. 

It's over-simplification because:

1) The repeated activation is not the only thing people are complaining about

2) Even the repeated activation itself is not that simple. I may lose my internet connection, then I can't play the game, or I may go on vacation without internet access, or, or, or ....

You guys who are defending this can keep ignoring the fundamental reasons why this system is fucked up for legitimate customers, but that won't change the fact that it is.

You are on vacation without internet? You lose your internet connection? Well what if you were on vacation without power? What if your power went out? Oh my god every game that requires your computer be plugged in is horrible!!! 

Hopefully you see my point... we all have 24 hour access to the interent that's just as much a part of our lives as electricity and phone service.  Any number of things can go wrong at any time to stop you from playing your games.  You can't play WoW when your internet is out either.   

What we see here folks is a classic case of "Looking for an excuse to complain" syndrome.   It's quite common on "teh internets."