PC gaming is dying

Dangar^ · May 23rd, 2008, 11:44 AM

Shack: Do you guys ever get tired of the same old "PC Gaming Is Dying" stories?

Doug Lombardi: I mean, I think, we sort of laugh at it. Because we've been wildly successful--we're very fortunate, you know. Our games have all done really, really well, Steam has taken off and become this whole other business for us, Valve has never been in better shape--and yet everybody is talking about how in the PC world, the sky is falling. And we're like, we've been doing this for 10 years now--actually 12 years since the company started, 10 years since the first game came out--and we've never been in better shape, financially or otherwise. The company is over 160 people now--it was 20 people when we shipped Half-Life. We've got multiple projects going--we were always a one-project-at-a-time group.

We don't understand why that story gets traction over time. I think people have finally started to clue in to the fact--there was a story last week where people finally looked at the online subscription revenues for WoW and all the things that look like WoW, and realized, wow, there was a butt-load of cash being made here that wasn't being counted at the register, at retail, in North America, which is where all these stories come out of.[...]

We're doing just fine, Popcap's doing just fine, Blizzard's certainly--they're printing money down there. We always sort of shake our heads, and go, okay, sooner or later someone's going to write the bigger picture story and perceptions will change.

Doug the man himself said so, PC gaming is fine - thread over

ieatlions · May 23rd, 2008, 12:40 PM

lol
all hail valve

Leroy · May 23rd, 2008, 01:11 PM

Originally Posted by ieatlions

because ive been looking around and RTS ar still barely playable and i prefer mouse and key over gmae pad 4 RTs but when was CS 1.6 released?

You go away from shooters its not just valve, its relic with company of heroes Dawn of war, and other sorts of games made by other people, like doom, duke nukem, wolfenstien.

MyNameDidntFit · May 23rd, 2008, 03:10 PM

Long ago.

And you just made a damn good point against yourself; "RTS ar still barely playable and i prefer mouse and key over gmae pad 4 RTs".

ieatlions · May 23rd, 2008, 07:39 PM

im not going out as saying that
U MUST BE WRONg and that im right im just saying that i should change the post to that a part form valve * cause its im possible to critisice valve * pc shooters are splintering