The Decline of PC Game Collecting (& the PC game industry as well)

[A Black Falcon]

75 million active accounts on Steam right now.

Yeah, but as I said NES and SNES game collecting is very popular now, even though lots of the games are available on Virtual Console. That is not the entire answer. That plus piracy of games that aren't on Steam or GOG would get closer, along with that those pirated games run on the same PCs that the real games would while pirated console games can't run on the real system unless you buy a flash cart, but still, for many people for console games it's not just about that... but somehow on PC that kind of collecting hasn't taken off much at all. And this was my attempt at thinking through why that is, and also sort of following up that thread I linked at the end from 2010. (Did I ever post that here? I forget.)

ABF, PC gaming has come back surprisingly strong in the last few years. I don't think PC gaming is in any danger of dying any time soon.

Yeah, I try to cover that. Things have certainly improved a lot since that 2010 thread! But PC gaming as it was died back in the early '00s, and isn't back. Probably won't be.

USED PC gaming, on the other hand. Well, yeah, the second hand PC game market has dried up considerably. As we've both said before, a mechanism to allow users to exchange games with each other is a must.

Yeah, that is absolutely essential.