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I've recently spent a lot of time watching a new YouTube channel called ThePCelitist, I highly recommend to any fans of the PC platform for gaming.
They've brought up some very interesting points about PC gaming from the perspective of PC elitism, and I've seen some responses from console gamers which are pretty negative. One of the problems that PC elitists often complain about is how consoles have lowered the quality for gaming on the PC, and a lot of the time we come under attack about expecting to be treated better or expecting too much, I've found myself using the same response to this a lot so here it is.
PC elitists are used to a higher quality of game, when we complain that there is a drop in quality for PC what we're saying is that relatively speaking we used to have a better experience with our games and with modern games that gap no longer exists, we're trying to protect the status quo. It's something that has been taken from us and we're not happy about it, I don't honestly expect any console gamer to sympathise with that so I always use an analogy to make the point.
Imagine a hypothetical situation, the next Halo game is made multi-platform to target mobile devices, tablets and web browsers to appeal to the bigger casual gaming market that exists with these devices. Developers realised that there's more money in casual games on these collective platforms (and there is, Zynga already have more money than EA!) so they've made Halo 4 in flash, the real Halo 4 that was planned a proper 3D successor has been cancelled and will never be made.
What do you suppose the reaction of the Halo fanboys would be? I'm willing to bet that it wouldn't be pretty. Now imagine if every game on the consoles was affected, imagine rubbish graphics mostly using low resolution 2D art, bad controls that were designed for touchscreen interaction and were sloppily ported to the controller, all the complex gameplay is gone it's just simply a tapping 1 or 2 buttons.
How would console gamers feel about that? Would they argue that they want games back how they used to be, with lovely HD graphics, smooth controls and engaging gameplay? I think that they would. What would their response be to mobile gamers who claim there's more money in mobile gaming now, so console gamers should stop whining? I wonder how valid these arguments would be if the tables were turned.
Maybe it's worth understanding that it doesn't matter what hobby you have, whether that be PC gaming, console gaming, chess or bowling, you want to maintain the status quo of your hobby, I would hope that console gamers could see things from our perspective from time to time and try and imagine what it would be like to be in our shoes.
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