I?d like to say PC gaming was my first venture into this world but it wasn?t, and it wasn?t something cool like arcade games or the original Atari and Pong either. Nope, born in the 80?s my first taste of video games was the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and boy did I love it. We were lucky enough to afford ?The Action Set? which included two controllers, the zapper and a dual game pack consisting of Duck Hunt and of course, Super Mario Bros. Some years later my brother and I received a Super Nintendo as a gift and thus continued my love affair with console gaming.
In the gap between console releases (SNES & N64) something was happening in the PC world and computers were quickly beginning to eclipse their console counterparts in terms of being competitive game devices. And then it happened. The year was 1993, the computer was a brand new P5 that belonged to a neighbour of mine and the game was Doom.
The game that, in my mind, changed gaming forever and put me in the fore front of a genre I would go on to love for the remainder of gaming life, the FPS. At 8 or 9 years old I didn?t care about the story or plot of Doom, I cared that I could walk around with a ?Big Fucking Gun? and just mow down demons and monsters to my heart?s content. I never was the best at the game in terms of figuring out how to move forward through the levels or using keycards, but as time went on I honed my skills in time for the release of Doom II. A few years later my Dad 
bought a PC through a deal at work it was a P54CS Pentium 133. A friend at school told me about this game called Diablo. We all know what Diablo is so without getting detail, it was here that Blizzard became the best game developer of all time, at least in my childish mind. This was the game started my love of RPG?s, and I?ve went on to play subsequent expansions and sequels in this series.
One year later Blizzard released StarCraft. The record for most hours I?ve ever logged in any game in my entire life, likely belongs to the original series of StarCraft (including Brood Wars). To this day in my mind, one of the all-time best games on any platform, bar none. The first computer I ever owned was one I built using the old 133 as a foundation. My friend and I would pack it, an old CRT monitor, keyboard and mouse (and of course games) in a hockey bag and take turns carrying it on our backs while riding our bikes or roller blading to his house (uphill, in the snow, both ways), networking up, then CTRL+ALT+DEL tricking free ISP services such as NetZero to remove their ads so we could play online. Then it was game on, all day and night, all weekend long. Although I played many, many other PC games than the few I?ve listed, StarCraft is the one I have fondest memories of and as I stated probably the best one.
Fast-forward to the 2000?s. After playing many PC games and many console games alike, something happened and my gaming preference shifted again. But prior to this, I made the jump into another genre, the MMORPG. My brother played this game called Ultima Online, and I thought it was AWESOME so naturally I wanted to play. One problem though, you had to pay a subscription price and I thought well that sucks. Being the loving brother he was, he never let me play on his account so I had to steal his password and play when he was at work. Eventually I grew tired of UO too, and EverQuest never tickled my fancy so out of the MMO game I was. Consoles starting coming back in a big way at this point and with the release of the original Xbox I practically kissed computer gaming goodbye.
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Skip ahead again, to a couple years ago 2010ish. Assume at this point I?ve been happily playing the original Xbox and the 360 for the past 5-7 years. I went back to college and my roommates were playing World of Warcraft, a game I?d refused to play for many years. 
Being weak minded, it didn?t take long for peer pressure to consume me and I was in. I logged an unhealthy amount hours in WoW. In a life time that spanned less than less than two years I banked over 7000 achievements, hundreds of thousands gold, rare mounts, best in slot epic gear for every specialization and even more that I can?t think of (and that was only one toon). I even got to the point of being accepted into a guild that is ranked in the top 15 in the US for competitive raiding by the end of the most recent expansion, Cataclysm.
Let?s get to the brass tacks here, the above is why I?m done with PC gaming. With the exception of maybe StarCraft, everything I care to play for fun can be played on consoles (and I see no benefit of playing the same game across every single platform). One can argue to the end of time the benefits of playing shooters and other games on PC?s and I get it, I played literally EVERYTHING on PC between the years of 1993 and 2005, Unreal, CS, C&C, Battlefield, CoD, Diablo, SC, the list goes on. To say I know all about a keyboard and mouse and graphics doesn?t even begin to scratch the surface. But you have to keep these things in mind; all my friends play console games (and I don?t doubt that most of yours do too), not everyone can afford to build a gaming PC and not everyone wants to. I?ve read articles about PC gaming making a comeback and honestly I don?t see it (mostly because they reference Facebook games, Sudoku and other bullshit that I deem unworthy). We?re at the end of a console cycle and when the new the generation is upon us that slight dip will be a distant memory.
The golden age of PC gaming is behind us and in have come a new breed of PC gamer with the highly addictive never-ending open worlds of MMORPGs. You may say these games are great and I can agree they?re a shit load of fun, but as a gamer who enjoys achieving end game content in everything I play, these games require hours comparable to full time work to encounter this type of content in a time frame that actually warrants achievement (basically, before the shit gets fucking nerfed 3 weeks after it?s released). So what I?m saying is, what?s the point? I?ll play PC games for the purpose of review and maybe I?ll boot up D3 to fuck around with some friends for an hour or two, but I?m so done with investing 4-6+ hours a night farming content, mats and various other meaningless bullshit in a virtual world that will be obsolete in 6 months when the next expansion is released. Fuck PC games.
Source: http://masonicgamer.com/why-the-pc-gamer-in-my-is-dying/
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