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EA: PC is Becoming the World's Largest Gaming Platform

Electronic Arts CFO Eric Brown says the advent of digital distribution has put the PC on track to becoming the "largest gaming platform in the world."

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Coheno5475d ago

It has always been the largest platform! And yet Spore only did 2 mio!

Mindboggle5475d ago

Yet it probably did 10 million illegal downloads..

TABSF5474d ago

PC gamers dont like getting ripped off and DRM if just that

like valve has done on research,

no drm and cheaper games
means more sales and less backlash from gamers

and thats the reason why spore sold so poor
release your game with DRM and charge more than £25 or £30 and then you should expect piracy, its just dumb

on consoles you may want to pay £50 for sh!t games were you feel like you've been mugged or get and better version for like half the price on PC

theox2g75474d ago

yep Sins of A Solar Empire, Indie game for a niche crowd, No hype, popularity or advertisement mainstream whatsoever and yet it did 500k in its first week because it didn't have any DRM at all

Spore's exaggerated rampant piracy was just an elaborate message to EA to stop the DRM crap, Most people who legitimately purchased Spore were screwed over by the online DRM because of server issues whiles pirates had hassle free experience, How fair is that? What do you expect an honest customer to do when their legally bought copy isn't working and they're well aware there's a working pirated version?

I know a lot of people who bought Spore and yet still pirated it to spite EA and be able to play the game, Same thing happened with Bioshock, They didn't expect great sales for pc at launch, So their servers weren't enough for processing online activations and they were overwhelmed and crashed, In the end, honest customers were screwed over and got the short end of the stick whiles pirates went scott free in world in Rapture,

For Spore, The number were abnormally high and didn't match the number of creatures created at the time, Which clearly shows some people just downloaded and probably never even played it, It was just a message

SaiyanFury5474d ago

Really? I thought PC gaming was dying out? I guess you can't believe everything you read on the internet. :P

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narked5475d ago

has been for quite some time

Mr Face Creamer5475d ago

The PC orginally was the largest platform of gaming at its beginning and it still is and will always be.

DeadlyFire5475d ago

EA needs to get some facts straight. PC gaming has always been bigger arena.

Pandamobile5475d ago

WoW has some 14,000,000 players. Steam has like 18,000,000 users. These two services outnumber Live's numbers and PSN's by a wide margin. And there's a lot more people playing games that aren't WoW or on Steam too. Just look at The Sims. That franchise has sold over 100,000,000 copies.

PC Gaming is alive and well, and will always be. Console gaming will die out before PC gaming ever does.

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Ranking The Sims 2 Stuff Packs

KeenGamer: "From IKEA homeware to fun kids' stuff, let's rank all the Stuff Packs for The Sims 2. Expansion Packs gave us lots of great new ways to play, but Stuff Packs allowed you to deck your Sims out in cool new outfits and jazz up their homes with great new objects."

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The Sims Voice Actor Reveals There is No Simlish Dictionary And More

A voice actor for The Sims spoke about his experiences doing voice work for the game's fictional Simlish language, and how there was no dictionary for them

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The 10 Best Spin-Off Games That Are Better than the Original

Xfire writes "It's not often that a video game franchise becomes successful enough that it gets a spin-off title or two. However, while most spin-offs help expand the base, some spin-off games end up being better than the original."

TallDarknWavy1066d ago

Zombie Army 4 was incredible, it just inches out Sniper Elite 4 which was also incredible.