[Cid Highwind]

Originally Posted by mudlord

Same with Doom 3 and its expansion, and Quake 4.

Never played those, so I wouldn't know

Originally Posted by Samor

still, the COD4 developers also complained about piracy.

...and the truth is somewhere in the middle.
PC games are easy to pirate, and and if they weren't more people would buy a game. You can see this with console game sales, where it's harder to pirate (not impossible, but harder).
On the other hand, there are other reasons, such as sys reqs and the inability to judge wether a game will run well on your system.

I do think the PC is losing out on big exclusive titles. There will still be good games on pc, but maybe less than before, and most of them probably ported, released only after the console versions have been out for a while.

A danger is that to lower costs, the porting will be done sloppy (actually, that happens a lot already), and then people won't buy a game, a developer will blame it on piracy, and then you have a downward spiral.

I doubt pc gaming will vanish entirely, though.... it will probably stay like it is now, or maybe a bit worse, but there are smaller developers and online games that can keep it going for quite some time, IMO.

Agreed, it's the spiral that I'm afraid of as well, and I wish I could think of a suggestion, especially for single player games, but I know of none. In any case.