>For more than three decades, PC gaming stood as the most powerful, flexible, and forward-looking platform in the interactive entertainment industry. It offered unmatched graphical fidelity, deep modding communities, open ecosystems, competitive pricing through competition, and near-total player ownership of games and hardware. Today, that platform is in serious, structural decline. The symptoms are no longer confined to niche complaints—they are measurable, persistent, and accelerating.
So basically, there's too many games to play when the average gamer is fine with only sticking to about a dozen or so, best case scenario?
>>730698009I know this is a shill and a phonefag OP but I just wanted to say I am astounded out how desperate this article is to make its point.
>>730698009you can ALWAYS disregard articles with screenshots from meet the team videos
>>730698009>The symptoms are no longer confined to niche complaints—they are measurable, persistent, and accelerating.PCbros...
>declineNo fool, the games are garbage
>>730698009How many of those 19,000 are complete trash VNs and the like made with AI assets? How many are barely functional half-games that some dude made in a week? How many are outright scams? This figure is meaningless by itself.Its both a strength and a weakness of PC gaming as a market and a platform that basically anyone can make something and put it out for people to play. You can get gems that defy the odds and expectations, but you'll also inevitably end up with a lot of actual trash.
>>730698009>nooo, there's slop out there, this affects the games I do buy and play... somehow????
>>730698609>>730698624PC vegan cope
>Timmy Tencent gets criticized for making yet another series of retarded posts on Twitter>anti-Steam spam kicks up into high gear immediately afterwardsIt's always so fucking transparent.
>>730698726Can you explain how it affects me, Sweeney?
>>7306980093/4 of those are AI generated masterpiece saar
Bring back Steam Greenlight.
If you're struggling to figure out why your rpgmaker / indie pixel / retro platformer isn't getting any traction, you're too fucking stupid to deserve income.
>Replay that old game for once , emjoying the hours that make you realise that it's modern games that are shit not because your le depressed
>>730698813AI won, cope and seethe
>spam AI goyslop by the hundreds every single day>why aren't players buying them
>>730698009pc gaming is massivehowever no one wants buy $70-80 digital-only gamesi'd rather wait for a sale so new games hit "normal" price unlike console players, pc gamers have backlogs of hundreds of games and don't NEED to buy current AAA slop day 1game companies need to realize this
Wow you mean people did not buy any of the AI jeet scamware or chink crap shoveled onto steam last year?Damn I guess Valve is finished and the lesson you shouldn't take from this is Valve just needs to tell chinks and jeets to fuck off, they don't get to dump shitware onto their store and they can fuck off to the google play store.
>>730698798The Deck flopped
>>730698009>look at popular new release tab>it’s literal shitty college student projects, ai generated slop and unreal asset porn games released weekly valve should really start charging more to put games up
Why is Steam so full of slop unlike the Nintendo Store? Does Valve love slop?
>>730698938Won what exactly? People are clearly not buying or reviewing your slop. Years have passed and you (anon) have made 0 things with it aside from porn. You have not developed any software (you don't even understand a loop), no games, nothing that makes you money. Cope retard.
>>730699340Have you seen the eshop bro
>>730699389Have you seen the Steam store xister
>>730699340Buddy there's a reason there's literally no threads about non-nintendo games on the switch.
>>730699418Yeah its pretty chill
>>730698009>PC gaming is declining because there are more games than ever and people aren't wasting their time on garbage
>>730699340Because people fucking whined and bitched about Steam previously having standards and not just letting everything in, and so here we are.
>>730699340>allows in a torrent of jeet and chink ai slop>bans Japanese indies hmm...
>>730698009>19000 games launched>average of 52 every single day>95%+ of them are an indie studio/solo dev's first project, with no advertising outside of maybe a couple posts on reddit>almost all of them are half-baked ideas or completely derivative of better, existing games>nobody is playing them How could this have happened?
>>730698009>All that shit is still true>"PC gaming is dead because no one is playing all these RPG maker games people shit out over the weekend"Okay, bro.
>>73069800999% of this number is shovelware that never deserved to see the light of day. honestly $100 to publish a game is far too low of a barrier, it should be close to 500-800 to weed out fucking faggots making uninspired dogshit.
>iPhone thread>Of a PCgay article no lessRemove yourself immediately
>>730699419There's more Switch 2 threads than Deck threads :)
Steam is working as intended.Most of that shit is pure fucking garbage.
You know that you can never make all games succeed, right?
>>730698009its funny that flash games websites could moderate themselves better than steam.
Why is this a bad thing exactly?
>>730700696It's not, but doombait and ragebait gets clicks.
>>730700696It isn't, consoles are thriving
>>730700696something something monopoly something something 30% cut something something please buy from EGS or Timmy will get drunk again and cause another PR disaster for Epic on Twitter.
>>730699542 It's wild how people still can't process that more doesn't mean better. Steam turned into the digital equivalent of a junk drawer. You might find a gem if you dig hard enough, but it's buried under 80 roguelike asset flips and 40 AI-generated “walking simulator horror” prototypes. Anyone still parroting “more games = PC winning” is just coping.
>platform has no authoritarian overbearing entry barrier and filtering is done by individual players who choose which games they want to play>this is bad somehow????
>>730701049>>platform has no authoritarian overbearing entry barrier and filtering is done by individual players who choose which games they want to play
>>730701087having internet access makes all the differenceit's much harder to buy some mystery shovelware on steam when you're given its reviews right there and then and can easily refund anything
Steam just hit a new ccu record
>>7307013726 gorillion more bots?
>>730698009As someone who regularly dumpster dives you should be glad more than half of that shit flops.
I have never left a review on a game and I don't have any plans for doing so in the future.
>>730698609>how many are slop/don't work/etcHard to say, but remember that it costs $100 to get something on Steam, and you have to go through a few weeks of reviews where they check to make sure your game boots and can be played briefly. In terms of ways to make a quick buck, it seems remote.>>730700696This is bad because the signal to noise ratio continues to climb in terms of being able to find fun and novel games on Steam.>>730699965I'd agree on raising the listing fee to $500.I released a game on Steam this year as part of a hobbyist project I was doing. Performance-wise, it managed to break out of the 70% pack in that it made more than $100, but it's firmly in the 'less than 10 reviews' group. But it was fun to make, and I wasn't crazy enough as to depend on it as a source of income.
